"A Jersey Vraic Cart"

(1939)

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"A Jersey Vraic Cart", 1939, etching and drypoint, signed in pencil, edition 260, The Print Club of Cleveland Publication No. 19 for 1941 (with original Print Club of Cleveland label), 8 9/16" x 11 1/16", a very good impression [Appleby 183].

Edmund Blampied (1886-1966) was born in St. Martin, Jersey, Channel Islands.  Having shown early interest and ability in drawing, he pursued studies at the Lambeth Art School in London and had his first exhibition at the Leicester Gallery in 1913. He was a prolific artist and the most popular of all the Jersey artists.  His oeuvre is broad, but it is his depiction of the rural pre-World War II Jersey Island lifestyle that was to become the dominant character of his work.

Blampied's etchings and drypoints, of a way of life that disappeared with World War II, capture lost moments in time never to be regained or experienced again but through his artwork. His ability to render the timeless essence of Jersey rural agrarian community and the toils and struggles of a pre-mechanized world are portrayed vividly in "A Jersey Vraic Cart".

Blampied's "A Jersey Vraic Cart" is in an Italian Roma 25 1/4" x 22 3/4" swan back frame finished in Corsica brown over gold with a stepped gold edge.  The outer khaki linen, middle ivory black beveled accent and inner earth green rag mats are acid and lignin free and protected with Acrylite-AR OP3 (UV) by CYRO... SOLD