Arches
Linocut printed in colors, circa 1930, small edition. 9 1/4 x 6 3/4 in. Unsigned. This is a fine impression printed on a thin oriental paper. The margins are full. The condition is fine. "Fookes studied at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art from 1929 to 1931, under Claude Flight. She exhibited in the annual British Linocut exhibitions at the Redfern and Ward Galleries in the 1930s, and also showed her work with the Society of Women Artists and the New English Art Club. Also during the 1930s Fookes painted and travelled abroad, often with the artist Pauline Logan, who shared a studio with her in Pimlico. In 1939, Fookes moved to Hampshire where she did war work before travelling to Europe in 1945 to spend a year running a mobile canteen for troops. The Imperial War Museum in London holds the diary she kept during that time. She retired to Wiveton in North Norfolk. In Norfolk she developed a keen interest in bird-watching and her output as an artist greatly diminished but interest in her work revived after her death. Examples of her work are held by the Art Institute of Chicago." (biography courtesy of The Court Gallery website.)
$3,000

Mediterranean Village
Linocut printed in colors, circa 1930, from a small edition perhaps 50. 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. Unsigned. This is a superb, luminous impression printed on thin oriental paper. The margins are narrow and the condition is excellent. "Fookes studied at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art from 1929 to 1931, under Claude Flight. She exhibited in the annual British Linocut exhibitions at the Redfern and Ward Galleries in the 1930s, and also showed her work with the Society of Women Artists and the New English Art Club. Also during the 1930s Fookes painted and travelled abroad, often with the artist Pauline Logan, who shared a studio with her in Pimlico. In 1939, Fookes moved to Hampshire where she did war work before travelling to Europe in 1945 to spend a year running a mobile canteen for troops. The Imperial War Museum in London holds the diary she kept during that time. She retired to Wiveton in North Norfolk. In Norfolk she developed a keen interest in bird-watching and her output as an artist greatly diminished but interest in her work revived after her death. Examples of her work are held by the Art Institute of Chicago." (biography courtesy of The Court Gallery website.)
$3,000

Poplar Trees and Telephone Poles
Linocut printed in colors, circa 1930, from a small edition. 8 x 6 in. Unsigned. This is a fine impression of this nicely designed image. The paper is a thin oriental which is mounted to a dark gray support sheet. This was done by the artist. The condition is fine. This impression is from the estate of the artist.
$3,000

Viaduct (also called Cloisters and Collonade)
Linocut printed in colors, circa 1930, from a small edition. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. Unsigned. This is a fine impression printed on thin oriental paper. The sheet is mounted to a darkish gray support sheet which was done by the artist. The condition is fine. This stellar work is from the estate of the artist. Other works by Fookes are available.
$3,000