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Ethelbert White
English artist and wood engraver
Ethelbert White (26 February 1891 - 5 March 1972) was an English artist and wood engraver. He was an early member of the Society of Wood Engravers[1] and a founding member of the English Wood Engraving Society in 1925.[2] He also worked in oils and water colour.
Ethelbert white biography
He was a member of the Royal Watercolour Society, and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy.
Wood engravings
White's introduction to wood engraving came in 1920. Hitherto he had worked largely in water colour.
In 1920 Cyril Beaumont, for whom he had produced designs for booklets on the Russian ballet (L'Oiseau de Feu, The Three Cornered Hat, Thamar and Impressions of the Russian Ballet, all 1919) and two limited editions (Eclogues, a Book of Poems 1919 and The Smile of the Sphinx 1920), asked him to produce colour wood engravings for an edition of W.W.
Gibson's Home for his Beaumont Press.[3] White then started to produ