J alphege brewer biography of donald

  • This book is the first illustrated study of the life and work of J. Alphege Brewer (1881-1946), the early20th-century British artist who made his fame.
  • From 1914 to 1919 Brewer published many large, color etchings showing scenes from Belgium and Northern France—cathedrals, churches, and town buildings.
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    The Wartime Etchings

     

    From 1914 to 1919 Brewer published many large, color etchings showing scenes from Belgium and Northern France—cathedrals, churches, and town buildings threatened or damaged during the battles of World War inom. Both in the United States and Great Britain these etchings, and inexpensive copies of them, were proudly hung on parlor walls in solidarity with the Allied cause and as a remembrance of the devastating cultural losses inflicted by the onslaught of war.


    Brewer's wartime etchings showed the historic buildings as they once were, not as they appeared after the attacks. They must have been sketched or photographed before the war began, a fact suggested in a December 1915 edition of the New York political journal The Outlook: "These etchings were made shortly before the war and are worthy memorials of magnificent edifices which are now partly or wholly in ruins." Brewer would likely have seen newspaper articles i

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    The J. Alphege Brewer Collection

     Collection — Multiple Containers

    Identifier: SC187-JAB

    Content Description

    This collection contains 132 etchings by J. Alphege Brewer dating from 1909 to 1939. Some etchings were collaborations between Brewer and his brother, Henry Charles Brewer while one etching, Evening on the Meuse. Huy. was a collaboration with F. Sherrin Brewer. The etchings are arranged in alphabetical order by title.

    Additionally, the collection has some of the original sales labels, reproductions and reprints of some pieces and a sales booklet titled “Original Etchings.”

    Dates: 1909-1939

    Found in: Distinctive Collections

    Thomas H. Dowd Papers

     Collection — Multiple Containers

    Identifier: SC048-DOWD

    Scope and Contents

    This collection contains photographs, personal information, correspondence, speeches and congratulatory let

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