Showing posts with label Linocutting. Show all posts
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Lill Tschudi - Painter and Linocut Artist

London Buses (detail) Lill Tschudi, Swiss. Color linocut - 1949 The Met, NYC.

Lill Tschudi (1911-2004) was a Swiss born painter and linocut artist. She studied at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in London from 1920-1930 and in Paris with Fernand Leger among others. She was a lover of sports and circus subjects and was quite popular in England. Ms. Tschudi was a very prolific printmaker and in 1986 won the national print prize for lifetime achievement in linocutting.