Seventy five drawings and sketchbooks by James Boswell 1938-1959

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Seventy five drawings and sketchbooks by James Boswell 1938-1959

85 pieces

eng,

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Artists' International Association (AIA) ( (Act 1930s-1940s))

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Boswell, James, 1906-1971

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James Boswell was born in New Zealand in 1906 and studied at the Elam School of Art in 1924 before moving to London where he was a student at the Royal College of Art from 1925 to 1929. He began exhibiting in London Galleries and with the London Group in 1927 and continued to do so until 1932 when he gave up painting. From 1932 when he joined the Communist Party he concentrated on graphic work, producing lithographs with James Fitton between 1933 and 1939. He was a founder member of the Artists'...