s IDYLL, c.1931/2 - Hull Museums Collections

IDYLL, c.1931/2

IDYLL, c.1931/2 Sickert was probably the single most important artist and art teacher of the Edwardian period. He was one of the founders of the Camden Town Group, and was influential in encouraging a new and very English form of Post-Impressionism. Rather than working en plein air (open air) however, he sometimes based his work upon artists' woodcuts. These were known as the Echoes. Idyll, a late work by Sickert, was painted after an illustration of a wood engraving which appeared in Leisure Hour magazine in 1859. The only significant change the artist has made is a slight reduction in the foreground and sky.