ART FOR EVERYDAY LIFE TALK 2

EDUCATING BRITAIN

Wed 4 Dec, 2–3pm

At the Museum and Online

This event will take place at the Museum and online via Zoom

With Peter Vass, Fellow of Oxford Brookes University

Some of the best 20th-century British pictorial art was not found in museums and galleries, but on tanker lorries and in underground stations.

In a series of three talks, Peter Vass shows how artists like Piper, Ravilious, Sutherland and the Nash brothers became involved in commercial and government-funded projects to record landscape and life in Britain, bringing art out of the galleries and onto the High Street as part of everyday life.

In this talk, Peter Vass discusses the artists who took part in such educational initiatives and how they produced works for the Schools Prints lithographs.

The Tower of London with a boat in the front of the picture by Edwin la Dell, 1946 School prints lithograph

Tower of London print, Estate of Edwin la Dell, 1946, School Prints lithograph

School Prints, published in the 1940s, was a scheme by which artists were commissioned to create original lithographs which could be editioned in very large numbers and sold cheaply to subscribing schools to enable children to enjoy real works of art.

This is the second talk in the Art for Everyday Life series led by Peter Vass.

Part of our Change Makers season of events.