Biography
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1881
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Born
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1912
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Started studying at Heatherley's School of Art
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1915
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Married Clare James
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1921
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Exhibited at the Royal Academy, London
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1922
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Began a lasting romantic and working relationship with Edith Lawrence
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1926-27
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Edited 'The Arts and Crafts Quarterly'
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1928
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Joined the Grubb Group as a founding member
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1926-30
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Taught linocutting at the Grosvenor School
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1928
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Joint exhibition with Edith Lawrence at the Redfern Gallery, London
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1929
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Instigated the 'First Exhibition of British Linocuts' at the Redfern Gallery
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1947
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Suffered a stroke
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1955
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Died
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Selected Exhibitions
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1922
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Walker's Galleries, London '3rd Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by the 'Seven and Five' Society'
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1923
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Mr Wm B. Paterson's Gallery, London '4th Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by the 'Seven and Five' Society'
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1924
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Mr Wm B. Paterson's Gallery, London '5th Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by the 'Seven and Five' Society'
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1926
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Beaux Arts Gallery, London '6th Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by the 'Seven and Five' Society'
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1927
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Redfern Gallery, London (solo)
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Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Paris 'Exposition de la gravure moderne anglaise'
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Beaux Arts Gallery, London '7th Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by the 'Seven and Five' Society'
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1928
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Redfern Gallery, London (solo)
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1929
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Redfern Gallery, London 'First Exhibition of British Lino-Cuts'
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1929-30
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago 'First International Exhibition of Lithography and Wood Engraving'
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1930
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Redfern Gallery, London 'British Linocuts'
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1931
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Albany Gallery, London 'Exhibition of Lino-Cuts by Claude Flight, R.B.A.'
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Shanghai Art Club, Shanghai 'Exhibition of British Linocuts'
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Redfern Gallery, London 'British Lino-Cuts 1931'
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Redfern Gallery, London 'Claude Flight'
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1932
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Collins House, Melbourne (Arts and Crafts Society of Victoria) 'Modern Colour Prints and Wood Engravings from the Redfern Gallery, Old Bond Street, London'
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Redfern Gallery, London 'Modern Colour Prints'
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1933
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Atelier E. Matter, Montreux, Switzerland
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Ward Gallery, London 'Fourth Exhibition of British Lino-Cuts'
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Redfern Gallery, London 'Colour Prints and Contemporary Oils'
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1934
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Ward Gallery, London 'Lino-Cuts 1934'
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1934-35
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Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 'The Sixtieth Autumn Exhibition'
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1935
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Ward Gallery, London 'Lino-Cuts 1935'
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1935-36
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National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 'Exhibition of Modern Colour Prints'
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1936
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Ward Gallery, London 'Lino-Cuts 1936'
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County Borough of Hastings Public Museum and Art Gallery, Hastings 'Exhibition of British Lino-Cuts (Mostly in Colour)'
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1937
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Ward Gallery, London 'Lino-Cuts 1937'
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1938
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Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Edinburgh 'The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture: The One Hundred and Twelfth'
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1939
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City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham 'Exhibition of Modern Lino-Cuts'
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1947
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British Institute of Adult Education (Arts Council of Great Britain), London 'Colour Lino-Cuts'
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2008
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, ‘Machine Age: Rhythms of Modern Life 1914-1939’
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Selected Publications
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'Claude Flight and His Circle', London: Parkin Fine Art, 1975 (ex cat)
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'British colour linocuts of the 1920s & 1930s by Sybil Andrews, Claude Flight, Cyril E. Power and the artists of the Grosvenor School of Modern Art' London: Redfern Gallery, 1985 (ex cat)
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Coppel, Stephen, 'Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School', Farnham: Ashgate Pub Co., 1995
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ed. Clifford S. Ackley, 'British Prints from the Machine Age: Rhythms of Modern Life 1914-1939', London: Thames and Hudson, 2008
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Publications by the Artist
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'Lino-Cuts. A Hand-Book of Linoleum-Cut Colour Printing', London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd, 1927
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'The Art and Craft of Lino Cutting and Printing', London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1934
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Selected Collections
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
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Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
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Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
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Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
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Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
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British Museum, London
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco
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Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
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Mitchell Wolfson Jr Collection, The Wolfsonian Foundation, Miami Beach, Florida and Genoa, Italy
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Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
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National Art Gallery, Wellington
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National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
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New York Public Library, New York
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V&A Museum, London
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