Cutting Edge

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As previously noted, I passed the time on Saturday afternoon by visiting Dulwich Picture Gallery to see the Cutting Edge exhibition, focused on linocut prints of the 1920s and 1930s. The notes compare the Grosvenor School artists to futurist and cubist painters, and they certainly share a sense of energy. On entering the exhibition, Void of War was instantly identifiable as being by Paul Nash; later on, The Tube Train and The Tube Station by Cyril Power seemed equally familiar. But there were some unfamiliar pieces too: other favourites included the archetypical London The King's Horses by William Greengrass; two modernist takes on quintessential rural England, The Cricket Match by Edith Lawrence and Fall of the Leaf by Sybil Andrews; the Antipodean The Windswept Farm by Dorrit Black; and the implausible placing of conductor and pianist in The Concerto by Cyril Power.