Grosvenor School

A DigitalNZ Story by Sienna Latham

Founded in London in 1925, the Grosvenor School of Modern Art championed both modernism and established printmaking techniques. New Zealand holdings include linocuts and other works by Sybil Andrews, Claude Flight and his students Eileen Mayo, Lill Tschudi, William Greengrass, Ethel Spowers, Dorrit Black and Dudley Holland. Spowers and Black helped to popularise the school's style in the Antipodes, and Mayo settled in Aotearoa in later life.

printmaking, modernism, design, motion, rhythm, beauty

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Storm

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Rain coal and wood

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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Policeman in a snowstorm

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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Speed

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Bridge and Trees

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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The Wind-Mill

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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Swings

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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The Fall of the Leaf

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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Ploughing

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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Bringing in the Boat

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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Rugby

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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Market-Day

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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Speedway

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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In Full Cry

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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Fuschias

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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Golgotha

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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The Giant Stride

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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The King's Horses

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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Rhythm

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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Michaelmas

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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Still-Life Design

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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Harvest

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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Dutch Houses

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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The Lonely Farm

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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Wet Afternoon

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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Children's hoops

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Pumpkin

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Wounded bird

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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The Giant Cable

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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Fleece

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Gypsies

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa