School of Art

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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Allen William Seaby

Born: 1867, UK, England, London   Died: 1953

Printmaker, painter and illustrator. Studied under Frank Morley Fletcher (1866-1949) at Reading University where Seaby taught printmaking as Professor of Fine Art between 1920 and 1933. He won a Gold Medal in Milan in 1906 and exhibited with the Society of Animal Painters, the Colour Woodcut Society and the Society of Graver Printers in Colour. He wrote 'Colour Printing with Linoleum and Wood Blocks', published by Dryad in 1925. He produced colour woodcuts, in the Japanese manner, of birds, flora and fauna some of which were reproduced as Christmas cards

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker




 
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