Studio: international art (82.1921)

SOME DRAWINGS BY HENRY RUSHBURY

ST. VICTOR, MARSEILLES "
BY HENRY RUSHBURY

Francis Dodd, one evening on the river
bank at Hammersmith, was the beginning
of an enduring friendship. Its immediate
and valuable result was that Rushbury
was encouraged to take up dry-points as
a source of livelihood, and was assisted
by practical means to establish him-
self as an etcher. He produced work
of excellent quality, which found a market,
and his prints and drawings are now in
many public and private collections. The
Tate Gallery has his Edge of a Forest,
purchased out of the Clark Fund ; and
the Birmingham Art Gallery has recently
acquired twelve of his landscape drawings.
The kindly moral support of Mr. Francis
Dodd and Mr. Muirhead Bone has never
failed him in moments of difficulty, and
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their artistic influence on him has been
unmistakeable, though his own personality
has always been strong enough to save
him from being a servile disciple. Suc-
cessive exhibitions of the New English
Art Club (of which he has been a member
for some years) have enabled his admirers
to watch the steady growth of a really
individual artist. 0000
During the war Rushbury served in the
army. He was not sent abroad, and after
a while was removed from his duties at
Lowestoft into the service of the Ministry
of Information, to make drawings which
would serve as a record of war-time con-
ditions in London. These numerous
drawings are models of graphic illustra-
tion, and, together with his tempera paint-