Yolande (Florence Layzell, Mrs. Henry Rushbury)
This charmingly informal portrayal of a young woman, made in 1920, is one of Brockhurst's earliest published etchings. The sitter was the wife of Henry Rushbury–a fellow artist whom Brockhurst had known since both attended the Birmingham School of Art as teenagers. Freely etched lines emphasize the face and suggest movement and shifting shadows, with much of the form deliberately left undeveloped. As he would for much of his career, the artist chose an exotic female name for the title–the sitter's actual name was Florence (see 46.61 for Brockhurst's later etched portrait of Henry Rushbury).
Artwork Details
- Title: Yolande (Florence Layzell, Mrs. Henry Rushbury)
- Artist: Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (British, Birmingham 1890–1978 Franklin Lakes, New Jersey)
- Sitter: Florence Harriet Rushbury (British, 1894–1981)
- Date: 1920
- Medium: Etching; third state of three
- Dimensions: Plate: 4 1/4 × 3 5/16 in. (10.8 × 8.4 cm)
Sheet: 8 7/8 × 7 1/16 in. (22.5 × 18 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of John J. Cunningham, 1967
- Object Number: 67.616.3
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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