Goldmark Gift Card. Anthony Gross seems to have suffered a fate similar to that of a number of underrepresented British artists of the 20 th century. Though he considered himself first and foremost a painter and draughtsman, his legacy is that of an expert printmaker, highly proficient in the fields of etching and engraving.
In his informal watercolour scenes of Villeneuve garden picnics and pastoral outings, his descriptive line is typically light and lyrical: freely drawn, it dances over the page, looping around luminous patches of watercolour wash that shimmer like stained glass.
Retrospectives, such as that in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, have been scant, despite a plethora of major public collections housing original works.
While a select few will recognise his wonderfully idiosyncratic etchings, far fewer know of his early work in animated film, a genre whose demands of countless sketches no doubt contributed to the confident and spontaneous touch revealed in later drawings. Above all, it is to our undeniable discredit that so little time has been spent looking at that work which Gross himself felt so important: the exquisite watercolours, oils and gouaches, brim full of life even now.
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