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Art : engraving by Gwenda Morgan
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The dream of my life Is to lie down by a slow river And stare at the light in the trees- To learn something by being nothing A little while But the rich Lens of attention
-Mary Oliver
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Gwenda Morgan, Country Scene, wood engraving, 1950
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Gwenda Morgan (1908 - 1991) Winter, Artist’s Garden, 1953,
SKU- 11187 Woodcut.
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The dream of my life
Is to lie down by a slow river
And stare at the light in the trees-
To learn something by being nothing
A little while
But the rich
Lens of attention
-MMary Oliver
Art : engraving by Gwenda Morgan
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Holidays 3.28
Holidays
Barnum & Bailey Day
Bhakti Mata Karma Jayanti (Chhattisgarh, India)
Children's Picture Book Day
Commemoration of Sen no Rikyu (The Way of Tea; Japan)
Confucius Memorial Day
Defy Death Today Day
Eggsibit Day
Gone-ta-Pott Day [every 28th]
Greatest Show on Earth Day
Haitian Pose Day
Hot Tub Day
International Laser Tag Day
International Women in Music Day
Istanbul Not Constantinople Day
Microfilm Day
National Amber Day
National Car Wash Day
National Children’s Picture Book Day
National Choking Awareness Day
National Ram Day
National Triglycerides Day
Progressive MS Day
Ram Nawami (Nepal)
Respect Your Cat Day
Semana Santa (Nicaragua)
Serfs Emancipation Day (Tibet)
Sun and Moon Creation Day
Teacher's Day (Czech Republic, Slovakia)
Three Mile Island Day
Virtual Advocacy Day
Washboard Day
Weed Appreciation Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Black Forest Cake Day
Eat an Edy’s Pie Day (f.k.a. Eat an Eskimo Pie Day)
Something on a Stick Day
4th & Last Tuesday in March
American Diabetes Association Alert Day [4th Tuesday]
National Agriculture Day (a.k.a. National Ag Day) [4th Tuesday]
National Fitness Recovery Day [Last Tuesday]
Independence Days
Cakeland (Declared, 2007) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Aequinoctium Vernum, Day 2 (Pagan)
Erasistratus (Positivist; Saint)
Festival of the Sacrifice at the Tombs (Ancient Rome)
Fra Bartolommeo (Artology; Saint)
Fred (Muppetism)
Garden Weeds Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)
Guntram, King of Burgundy (a.k.a. Gontran, Guntramnus; Christian; Saint)
Palmistry Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Khordad Sal (Birth of Prophet Zarathustra; Zoroastrianism)
Meatball Appreciation Week begins (Pastafarian)
Priscus, Malchus and Alexander (Christian; Martyrs)
Pope Sixtus III (Christian; Saint)
Ragnar Lodbrok’s Day (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)
Stephen Harding (Christian; Saint)
Tuotilo (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 6 of 24)
Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [6 of 24]
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 15 of 60)
Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [21 of 57]
Premieres
Andrea Chenier, by Umberto Giordano (Opera; 1896)
April Fool’s Day (Film; 1986)
The Birds (Film; 1963)
Brown Eyed Girl, recorded by Van Morrison (Song; 1967)
Burning Love, recorded by Elvis Presley (Song; 1972)
Duke, by Genesis (Album; 1980)
Elmer Elephant (Disney Cartoon; 1936)
Father’s Day Off (Disney Cartoon; 1953)
Futurama (Animated TV Series; 1999)
A Gentlemen’s Gentlemen (Disney Cartoon; 1941)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Film; 2014)
The Great Gatsby (Film; 1974)
Houses of the Holy, by Led Zeppelin (Album; 1973)
Lucas (Film; 1986)
The Money Pit (Film; 1986)
The Opry House (Disney Cartoon; 1929)
Run Fatboy Run (Film; 2008)
Serial (Film; 1980)
Spirited Away (Animated Ghibli Film; 2003)
Summertime Blues, recorded by Eddie Cochran (Song; 1958)
Today’s Name Days
Guntram, Ingbert (Austria)
Albena, Boyan, Boyana, Boyka, Boyko (Bulgaria)
Nada, Polion, Priska, Renata, Sonja (Croatia)
Soňa (Czech Republic)
Eustachius (Denmark)
Arm, Armas, Armo, Kallis (Estonia)
Armas (Finland)
Gontran (France)
Guntram, Ingbert, Willy (Germany)
Gedeon, Johanna (Hungary)
Sisto (Italy)
Eiženija, Ginta, Gunda, Gunta, Ženija (Latvia)
Girmantė, Odeta, Rimkantas, Sikstas (Lithuania)
Åsta, Åste (Norway)
Aniela, Antoni, Jan, Krzesisław, Sykstus (Poland)
Ilarion (Romania)
Soňa (Slovakia)
Doroteo, Sixto (Spain)
Malkolm, Morgan (Sweden)
Gwen, Gwenda, Gwendolyn, Gwyn, Gwynn, Gwynne (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 87 of 2024; 278 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 2 of week 13 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 10 of 28]
Chinese: Second Month 2 (Gui-Mao), Day 7 (Yi-You)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 6 Nisan 5783
Islamic: 6 Ramadan 1444
J Cal: 26 Ver; Fiveday [26 of 30]
Julian: 15 March 2023
Moon: 45%: 1st Quarter
Positivist: 3 Archimedes (4th Month) [Erasistratus]
Runic Half Month: Ehwaz (Horse) [Day 3 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 9 of 90)
Zodiac: Aries (Day 8 of 30)
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Holidays 3.28
Holidays
Barnum & Bailey Day
Bhakti Mata Karma Jayanti (Chhattisgarh, India)
Children's Picture Book Day
Commemoration of Sen no Rikyu (The Way of Tea; Japan)
Confucius Memorial Day
Defy Death Today Day
Eggsibit Day
Gone-ta-Pott Day [every 28th]
Greatest Show on Earth Day
Haitian Pose Day
Hot Tub Day
International Laser Tag Day
International Women in Music Day
Istanbul Not Constantinople Day
Microfilm Day
National Amber Day
National Car Wash Day
National Children’s Picture Book Day
National Choking Awareness Day
National Ram Day
National Triglycerides Day
Progressive MS Day
Ram Nawami (Nepal)
Respect Your Cat Day
Semana Santa (Nicaragua)
Serfs Emancipation Day (Tibet)
Sun and Moon Creation Day
Teacher's Day (Czech Republic, Slovakia)
Three Mile Island Day
Virtual Advocacy Day
Washboard Day
Weed Appreciation Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Black Forest Cake Day
Eat an Edy’s Pie Day (f.k.a. Eat an Eskimo Pie Day)
Something on a Stick Day
4th & Last Tuesday in March
American Diabetes Association Alert Day [4th Tuesday]
National Agriculture Day (a.k.a. National Ag Day) [4th Tuesday]
National Fitness Recovery Day [Last Tuesday]
Independence Days
Cakeland (Declared, 2007) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Aequinoctium Vernum, Day 2 (Pagan)
Erasistratus (Positivist; Saint)
Festival of the Sacrifice at the Tombs (Ancient Rome)
Fra Bartolommeo (Artology; Saint)
Fred (Muppetism)
Garden Weeds Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)
Guntram, King of Burgundy (a.k.a. Gontran, Guntramnus; Christian; Saint)
Palmistry Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Khordad Sal (Birth of Prophet Zarathustra; Zoroastrianism)
Meatball Appreciation Week begins (Pastafarian)
Priscus, Malchus and Alexander (Christian; Martyrs)
Pope Sixtus III (Christian; Saint)
Ragnar Lodbrok’s Day (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)
Stephen Harding (Christian; Saint)
Tuotilo (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 6 of 24)
Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [6 of 24]
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 15 of 60)
Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [21 of 57]
Premieres
Andrea Chenier, by Umberto Giordano (Opera; 1896)
April Fool’s Day (Film; 1986)
The Birds (Film; 1963)
Brown Eyed Girl, recorded by Van Morrison (Song; 1967)
Burning Love, recorded by Elvis Presley (Song; 1972)
Duke, by Genesis (Album; 1980)
Elmer Elephant (Disney Cartoon; 1936)
Father’s Day Off (Disney Cartoon; 1953)
Futurama (Animated TV Series; 1999)
A Gentlemen’s Gentlemen (Disney Cartoon; 1941)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Film; 2014)
The Great Gatsby (Film; 1974)
Houses of the Holy, by Led Zeppelin (Album; 1973)
Lucas (Film; 1986)
The Money Pit (Film; 1986)
The Opry House (Disney Cartoon; 1929)
Run Fatboy Run (Film; 2008)
Serial (Film; 1980)
Spirited Away (Animated Ghibli Film; 2003)
Summertime Blues, recorded by Eddie Cochran (Song; 1958)
Today’s Name Days
Guntram, Ingbert (Austria)
Albena, Boyan, Boyana, Boyka, Boyko (Bulgaria)
Nada, Polion, Priska, Renata, Sonja (Croatia)
Soňa (Czech Republic)
Eustachius (Denmark)
Arm, Armas, Armo, Kallis (Estonia)
Armas (Finland)
Gontran (France)
Guntram, Ingbert, Willy (Germany)
Gedeon, Johanna (Hungary)
Sisto (Italy)
Eiženija, Ginta, Gunda, Gunta, Ženija (Latvia)
Girmantė, Odeta, Rimkantas, Sikstas (Lithuania)
Åsta, Åste (Norway)
Aniela, Antoni, Jan, Krzesisław, Sykstus (Poland)
Ilarion (Romania)
Soňa (Slovakia)
Doroteo, Sixto (Spain)
Malkolm, Morgan (Sweden)
Gwen, Gwenda, Gwendolyn, Gwyn, Gwynn, Gwynne (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 87 of 2024; 278 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 2 of week 13 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 10 of 28]
Chinese: Second Month 2 (Gui-Mao), Day 7 (Yi-You)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 6 Nisan 5783
Islamic: 6 Ramadan 1444
J Cal: 26 Ver; Fiveday [26 of 30]
Julian: 15 March 2023
Moon: 45%: 1st Quarter
Positivist: 3 Archimedes (4th Month) [Erasistratus]
Runic Half Month: Ehwaz (Horse) [Day 3 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 9 of 90)
Zodiac: Aries (Day 8 of 30)
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Midwinter, 1962 Gwenda Morgan
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Wood Engraving Wednesday
One of our absolute favorite British wood engravers is Gwenda Morgan (1908-1991). So this week we return to a few of her engravings in The Wood-Engravings of Gwenda Morgan, printed and published at John and Rosalind Randle’s Whittington Press in Gloucestershire, England in 1985 in an edition of 335 copies, signed by Gwenda Morgan. This book, with Morgan’s original wood engravings was printed directly from the blocks, was is set in 12-point Bell and printed on Zerkall mould-made papers.
One of the reasons we admire Morgan’s work so much is well-expressed by former Golden Cockerel Press proprietor Christopher Sandford, who once said, as John Randle points out in his introduction
. . . that her engravings reminded him of romantic scenes in needlework, embroidery and tapestry. There is a sense of order and formality in her work that does indeed bring such scenes to mind, and the apparent simplicity of her composition and technique disguises a sure eye and a firm hand with the engraving tool.
Randle continues with his own assessment:
The two wood-engravers whose work Gwenda Morgan most admires are Eric Ravilious and Douglas Percy Bliss, and like them she engraves with conviction and clarity. Her blocks are beautifully cleanly and deeply cut, the antithesis of the very fine line technique beloved of some engravers which can make the printer’s job such a difficult one. . . . This selection of Gwenda Morgan’s work is made up of her favourite blocks, and accounts for perhaps a quarter of her total output.
This book is another generous donation from our friend, Jerry Buff.
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Gwenda Morgan (1908 - 1991) Winter, Artist’s Garden, 1953 SKU- 11187 Woodcut, proof.
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Illustration by Gwenda Morgan for Golden Cockerel Press’s Goat Green by T.F. Powys, 1937
From: Pertelote. London : Golden Cockerel Press, 1943
Z239.2.G6 G612
#village#englishvillage#goat#church#woodengraving#gwendamorgan#1930s#english#early20thcentury#goldencockerelpress#smallpress#privatepress#rarebooks#specialcollections#libraryofva
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