Drawbridge John, Signed (2 results)

Paperback. Condition: Near fine in wraps. First Edition. 21 x 25cm 95pp near fine exhibition catalogue signed by John Drawbridge on the title page. John Boys Drawbridge MBE was a New Zealand artist, muralist and printmaker.He was famous for his murals in public places: for the foyer of New Zealand House in London in the 1960s, the Beehive in the 1970s, and for the New Zealand Pavilion at Expo 70 in Japan. Includes numerous essays including: Coming and Going: John Drawbridge, Pop Art, and the New Bohemia in London by Lara Strongman. With colour plus black and white reproductions of the works and the life.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. John Drawbridge (illustrator). John Drawbridge mezzotint printed in red and black titled colour Open Window . Printed on hand made wove paper by Barcham Green. Signed, titled, and numbered 10/25 in lower margin by the artist in pencil. Fine Image size 13.5 x 7.5 cm (5.25 x 3 inches) Sheet size 30 x 30cm (11.75 x 11.75 inches) John Drawbridge [New Zealand 1930-2005] Painter and print maker; born 27 December 1930 in Wellington, New Zealand, educated at Wellington Teachers College and Dunedin Teachers College; arrived in London in 1957 to study at the Central School of Arts (1957-60)and spent a year in Paris pursuing printmaking, in the early 1960s he exhibited successfully in London and obtained the commission to paint a huge mural for New Zealand House in 1961; returned to New Zealand in 1963 with his English-born wife, the sculptor and silversmith Tanya Ashken, where his abstract work had a mixed reception in his local city, Wellington; in 1967 the New Zealand Government presented one of his abstract paintings Coastline, Island Bay to Canada to mark Canada s centenary, although its abstract treatment aroused hostility in the Wellington press; during the 1970s he experimented with new techniques, painting on metal surfaces and exploring optical effects; made Beehive Mural in 1979 for New Zealand s new Parliament building; as a printmaker he specialised in mezzotint; died 24 July 2005. Signed by Author(s).