The art of Edmund Blampied in periodicals: 1920 - 1924.
This page lists periodicals published between 1920 and 1924 that contain illustrations of prints, drawings or paintings by Edmund Blampied. He had returned to London from Jersey in November 1919 and started to learn the art of lithography at the Central School of Art under the tutelage of Archibald Hartrick and joined the Senefelder Club. He also started to paint in oils while continuing his prolific output as an illustrator of books and magazines.
Blampied's first solo exhibition of prints and drawngs was held in 1920 at the Leicester Galleries while his first exhibition in the USA was held at the galleries of Kennedy & Co. in New York in 1922. His first exhibition of oil paintings and drawings was also at the Leicester Galleries in London, in 1923. Two of the paintings in that exhibition were reproduced in colour in the magazine Drawing and Design. But most art magazines reproduced images of his prints or pen and ink drawings in black and white, as printing in colours was still an expensive process. The art magazine Colour which, as it name suggests, printed many pictures of artworks in colour, also reproduced one of his paintings from that exhibition as well as reproductions of his drypoints in monochrome, all printed on high quality paper.
This page shows two portraits of Blampied, both with a characteristic cigarette in his mouth. One is a self-portrait for an article on his prints by Malcolm Salaman. Salaman later included Blampied in the series Modern Masters of Etching, which featured the work of more than 30 eminent artists. The other portrait is by Blampied's brother-in-law, Saloman van Abbé who often signed his work 'S Abbey'. He was born in the Netherlands and probably Anglicised his name during the First World War. Saloman's sister, Marianne, married Edmund Blampied on 5th August 1914.
Prints are identified in catalogues raisonnné: CD = Campbell Dodgson (1926); AA = Arnold & Appleby (1996): AH = forthcoming.
'Tante Elizabeth' by Blampied on cover of magazine.
— 1920 —
Periodical: The Apple (of Beauty and Discord).
Date: Jan-1920. Vol: 1. Issue: 1. Page: 51. Price: 6 shillings. Title: 'Flies'. Type: DP1.
Content: Reproduction of etching 'Flies' [CD:17; AA:17; AH:E13.2]
Periodical: The Queen.
Date: 13-Mar-1920. Vol: 147. Issue: 3820. Page: 336. Price: 1/-. Title: Art and Literature. The Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. Author: G.B.D. Type: ET2.
Content: Reproduction of 2 etchings: "Flies" [CD:17; AA:17; AH:E13.2] and "Work in the fields" [CD:21; AA:31; AH:E13.6].
Above all there is plentiful imagination and a good understanding of the medium. Take, for instance, the work of Edmund Blampied, No. 1, a deliciously light study of a girl with a parasol, and Nos 11 and 12, two studies of horses, strong in line with heavy colour.
Periodical: The Apple (of Beauty and Discord).
Date: Apr-1920. Vol: 1. Issue: 2. Page: 113. Price: 6 shillings. Title: Etching "An Argument". Type: DP1.
Content: Reproduction of 'An argument' [CD:40; AA:50; AH:E17.1]
Periodical: Drawing and Design.
Date: May-1920. Vol: 1. Issue: 1. Pages: 6 and 15. Price: 1/-. Title: 'An etching by E. Blampied' Type: DP2.
Content: Reproductions on page 6 of 'Homewards, evening' [CD:15.ii; AA:20; AH:E13.5.ii] and page 15 "Flies" [CD:17; AA:17; AH:E13.2] by permission of the Leicester Galleries
Periodical: The Apple (of Beauty and Discord).
Date: Oct-1920. Vol: 1. Issue: 4. Page: 217. Price: 6 shillings. Title: 'Jersey Peasants'. Type: DW1.
Content: Reproduction of a charcoal drawing (see left).
Notes: The Apple was a short-lived large publication printed in wrappers, costing 6 shillings an issue, which is equivalent to about £12 today in terms of purchasing power. The magazine published essays on art, poems and reproductions of prints or drawings, all in monochrome tints. There seem to have been only seven quarterly issues: four consecutive issues in 1920 (vol 1, issues 1 to 4) and then three issues in 1921 (vol 2, issues 1, 2 and 3). It was published a year later in the USA, in 1921 and 1922, using pages printed in England, which might be why some libraries indicate it was published until 1922. I don't think it was.
Periodical: The Apple (of Beauty and Discord).
Date: Oct-1920. Vol: 1. Issue: 4. Page: 225. Price: 6 shillings. Title: Etching "Fording the Stream". Type: DP1.
Content: Reproduction on page 225 of 'Fording the stream' [CD:38; AA:36; AH:E14.4]
Periodical: The Apple (of Beauty and Discord).
Date: Oct-1920. Vol: 1. Issue: 4. Page: 251. Price: . Title: Drypoint "Potato Planters". Type: DP1.
Content: Reproduction on page 251 of 'Potato planters' [CD:44; AA:63; AH:E20.8]
Periodical: The Queen.
Date: 16-Oct-1920. Vol: 148. Issue: 3851. Page: 450. Price: 1/-. Title: Art and literature. Cornwall and the Channel Islands. Author: Hugh Stokes. Type: ET1.
Content: Reproduction of "Driving home in the rain" [CD:32; AA:35; AH:E14.1].
At the Leicester Galleries . . . are some vigorous etchings by Mr Edmund Blampied A.R.E. As a boy the artist worked on a farm in Jersey, and his early career is one of romance. His etchings and drawings are superb in quality, as those here reproduced prove beyond question. Mr Blampied is still young, and his future should be brilliant.
Periodical: The Sphere.
Date: 23-Oct-1920. Vol: 83. Issue: 1083. Page: 86. Price: 1/-. Title: "At the farm" - one of Mr Blampied's equine studies. Type: DP1.
Content: Reproduction of 'Work in the fields' [CD:21; AA:31; AH:E13.6]
This beautiful line etching is one of the series of equine studies exhibited a week or so ago by Mr. Blampied at the Leicester Galleries, Leicester Square.
Periodical: Drawing and Design.
Date: Nov-1920. Vol: 1. Issue: 7. Pages: 216-217. Price: 1/-. Title: 'Riders in the surf' and'Backing the cart'. Type: DP2.
Content: Reproductions of 'Wading' [CD:58; AA:71; AH:E20.4] and 'Backing the cart' [CD:39.ii; AA:33; AH:E14.3.ii]
Periodical: The Burlington Magazine.
Date: Nov-1920. Vol: 37. Issue: 212. Pages: 264. Price: 1/-. Title: Leicester Galleris. Type: Text.
Content: Edmund Blampied, a Jersey artist who is attracting some attention here and in Paris, is well represented by thirty etchings and dry-points. One's impression is of a craftsman who is thoroughly familiar with his tools and works with a very definite intention. His gift for striking composition he uses in the pursuit of what seems to amount to a ruling passion - the depsition of movement. He has discovered, as Rodn dsicovered long ago, that a drawing - or even a snapshot for that matter - of an animal in the act of changing position of rest to another produces an impression of movement, and to the depiction of that movement his swift virile line is well adapted. It cannot be said, however, that even at his best, as in The Argument his work for a moment moves one like art of the first water.
Periodical: Christian Science Monitor.
Date: 13-Dec-1920. Page: 12. Price: unknown Type: Text, LI1.
Title: 'The west sands', a lithograph by Edmund Blampied.
Content: Reproduction of 'West sands' [AA:L6; AH:L20.2]
— 1921 —
Periodical: The Apple (of Beauty and Discord).
Date: Jan-1921. Vol: 2. Issue: 1. Page: 3. Price: 6 shillings. Title: Study for a lithograph (charcoal drawing). Type: BW1.
Content: A single charcoal drawing [no image available]
Periodical: The Studio.
Date: 15-Feb-1921. Vol: 81. Issue: 335. Pages: 58-64. Price: 2/-. Title: The Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. Type: DP1.
Content: Reproducton on page 63 of 'Soup' [CD:56; AA:65; AH:E20.5.ii] by E. Blampied R.E. by courtesy Messrs Ernest Brow (sic) & Phillips.
Periodical: The Illustrated London News.
Date: 16-Apr-1921. Vol: 158. Issue: Unknown. Page: 503. Price: 6d. Title: "One touch of nature" in the coal dispute: pit ponies. Type: DW2.
Content: Two monochrome drawings, one signed Blampied. Top: pony pulling coal waggon down rails in a pit, miner behind in shorts, short sleeves and cap. Lower: pit ponies in underground stables with man looking at artist. AH copy is in US edition, Vol 68 no 1773, price 30 cents
This isssue of the ILN was published the day after Black Friday, when the leaders of transport and rail unions decided not to strike in sympathy with the striking miners. I rather doubt that Blampied would have been allowed down a mine to do these drawings, so they were probably done from photographs.
Periodical: The Studio.
Date: 15-Apr-1921. Vol: 81. Issue: 337. Pages: 139-142. Price: 2/-. Title: Lithographs from the 11th Exhibition of the Senefelder Club. Type: LG1.
Content: 'Splash!' [AA: L4; AH:L21.3]' by E. Blampied R.E. The exhibition was held at the Leicester Galleries in February 1921
Periodical: The Apple (of Beauty and Discord).
Date: Jul-1921. Vol: 2. Issue: 3. Page: 47. Price: 2 shillings. Title: Drawing. Type: DW1. Content: Drawing not seen, known from index.
Periodical: The New York Times, USA.
Date: 18-Sep-1921. Vol: 2. Title: Printed Propaganda of the Etcher's Art. Author: H.B.L. Type: DP1. Content: Reproduction of 'The Vraic Farmers'
Content: Review of 'The Charm of the Etchers Art' (Studio, 1920), three folios each of 10 etchings including 'Vraic farmers' = 'Vraic men' [CD:43; AA:53; AH:19.3].
Periodical: The Arts and American Art Student, (USA).
Date: Oct-1921. Vol: 2. Issue: 1. Page: 33. Price: 30 cents. Title: Chicago Letter Type: Text.
Content: At Ackermann's they are showing, too, some remarkable dry points by Edmund Blampied, a young artist native of the Channel Islands. The sure drawing and the quick, vigorous movement in these scenes from Jersey peasant life account for their reputation, which their creator, who three years ago was practically unknown and who is now an A.R.E., has so swiftly made.
Periodical: Colour.
Date: Dec-1921. Vol: 15. Issue: 5. Page: 18. Price: . Title: 'Work in the fields'. Type: DP1.
Content: Reproduction of 'Work in the fields' [CD:21; AA:31; AH:E13.6].
Periodical: Colour.
Date: Dec-1921. Vol: 15. Issue: 5. Page: 20. Price: . Title: The Thunderstorm (1920; AA 69b). Type: DP1.
Content: Reproduction of 'The Thunderstorm' [CD:49.ii; AA:69b; AH:E20.2.ii]
— 1922 —
Periodical: The Studio.
Date: 15-Apr-1922. Vol: 83. Issue: 349. Pages: 186-194. Price: 2 shillings. Title: The Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. Type: DP1.
Content: Reproduction of 'The sick man' [CD:65; AA:79; AH:E21.6].
Periodical: The Studio.
Date: 22-May-1922. Vol: 83. Issue: 350. Pages: 245-252. Price: 2 shillings. Title: Some Pen Drawings by Edmund Blampied RE. Type: DW6.
Content: Eight pen drawings.
Notes: This is the first feature on Blampied's work in an art magazine. These eight pages of drawings were printed in the magazine on non-coated paper with no text, just the title of each drawing. The titles are:
► 'Carting potatoes, Jersey'. See drawing at Courtauld Institute.
► 'Tante Elizabeth' (design for drypoint 'Tante Elizabeth': CD:66;
► AA:72; AH:E21.1)
► 'The joke'
► 'The sand cart'
► 'At Dieppe'
► 'Seaweed time' (design for drypoint 'Shore harvest': CD:68;
AA:78; AH:E21.5.ii)
► 'The return from the fields'
► 'Hauling timber' (design for drypoint 'Lumbermen': CD:74;
AA:91; AH:E23.5)
Periodical: Bookman's Journal and Print Collector.
Date: Aug-1922. Vol: 6. Issue: 11. Pages: 40-44. Price: 2/-.
Title: Edmund Blampied's etchings.
Author: Malcolm Salaman.
Type: DP2, ET1.
Content: Reproduction of two drypoints 'The Stranger' [CD:55; AA:66; AH:E20.10] and 'The Sick Man' [CD:65; AA:79; AH:E21.6], one etching 'Driving Home in the Rain' [CD:32; AA:35; AH:E14.1] and a self-portrait in pen and ink (see left).
Notes: The original drawing was signed by Blampied and given to Malcolm Salaman. It was sold at Christies, South Kensington in a sale of Maritime Art including a Channel Island Collection, on 24th November 2011, lot 112.
Self-portrait in pen and ink (1922).
Periodical: Les Chroniques de Jersey.
Date: 12-Aug-1922. Vol: 17. Issue: 2. Page: unknown. Price: 1d? Title: Un artiste Jersiais. Type: Text
Content: A long article in French about the article by Malcolm Salaman in The Bookman's Journal and Print Collector, see above.
Periodical: Colour.
Date: Sep-1922. Vol: 17. Issue: 2. Page: 50. Price: 1 s 6d? Title: An argument (1917; AA50). Type: DP1.
Content: Reproduction of 'An argument' [CD:40; AA:50; AH:E17.1].
Periodical: The Times.
Date: 18-Nov-1922. Vol: unknown. Issue: unknown. Page: 14. Price: 1d? Title: Modern Masters of Etching; seventh exhibition. Type: DP1.
Content: Reproduction of 'Farm hands' [CD:69; AA:82b; AH:E22.1.ii].
Periodical: American Art News (USA).
Date: 25-Nov-1922. Page: 1. Price: 15 cents Title: Etchings by Blampied. Type: Text.
Content: Review of Blampied's first show of pictures in the USA, at Kennedy & Co, New York.
An unusually extensive and complete exhibition of the etchings and dry-points of Edmund Blampied, the English artist are on view in the Kennedy Galleries through December. Forty-one prints and shown, to which is added twenty-eight drawings in black-and-white and color, the subject of which are his favorite farming and fishermen groups. . .
. . . The drawings include studies afterwards worked up into etched plates, such as the 'Fetch it' and sketches for 'Fisherman's return' and 'Wading'. There is an admirable study of an elderly Victorian Englishwoman 'Reading' and of a modish young woman entitled 'Summer'.
Periodical: Christian Science Monitor (USA).
Date: 7-Dec-1922. Page: 11. Price: unknown? Title: Edmund Blampied's etchings. Type: Text.
Content: Review of Blampied's first show of pictures in the USA, at Kennedy & Co, New York.
— 1923 —
Periodical: The Times.
Date: 3-Feb-1923. Issue: 43,256. Page: 8. Price: unknown. Type: Text.
Title: Mr. Edmund Blampied.
Content: Article on Blampied first exhibition of paintings.
Mr. Blampied, the young Jersey artist, is to be seen at the Painter-Etchers, reminding us that he first became known as an etcher. At the Leicester Galleries he exhibits as draughtsman and as painter. One of two of the things there (the exact and concise water-colour, No. 49, and the very clever study of surfaces on cows, No. 67) show that he is not yet beyond experiment. But he seems to have found his favourite means of the moment. In drawing it is an infinity of fluent strokes which marvellously come together to make wholes of extreme delicacy. In painting it is haze, such as Matthew Maris loved, out of which emerge, as you linger over it, form and significance. No 75 is “Morning Haze”, and beautiful it is. But No 76 is “Mid-day rest”, and the haze has not yet dispersed under the sun. This remoteness and mystery are very enjoyable, especially, perhaps, in No. 50, where the haze is sea-spray, through which the fishermen are hauling up their boat, or in No. 77, a night-piece where, though the opening of what might be a cave, but it is probably a barn, a perfectly lovely patch of blue sky is to be seen. The haze is no more a shirking of fact than is the method of drawing that can express weight and labour so richly as do Nos. 62 and 66. And Mr. Blampied knows the cart-horse “backwards”, although he does not make him look, as a distinguished critic deceased once said of an equestrian statue in London, as if he had been “constructed by a veterinary surgeon for a lecture”. .
Periodical: Christian Science Monitor.
Date: 3-Feb-1923. Page: 17. Price: unknown Type: Text, DP1.
Title: 'Shore harvest' from the etching by E. Blampied.
Content: Reproduction of 'Shore harvest' [CD:68; AA:78; AH:E21.5.ii]
Mr. Blampied's speciality is horses. Not the well-groomed, slick beauties of the racing stable, but the heavy plodding four-footed beast of burden that he knew in the land of his boy-hood days. His technique is sketchy but beneath the sketchiness is the knowledge of drawing and of form and colour.
Periodical: Colour. Date: Feb-1923. Vol: 18. Issue: 1. Page: 12. Price: 1s 6d. Title: The Fisherman's Return. Type: DP1.
Content: Reproduction of 'The Fisherman's Return' [CD:70; AA:83; AH:E22.2.ii]
Periodical: Colour. Date: Feb-1923. Vol: 18. Issue: 1. Page: 1. Price: 1s 6d. Title: Soup (1920; AA65). Type: ET1.
Content: Reproduction of 'Soup' [CD:56; AA:65; AH:E20.5.ii].
Periodical: Colour.
Date: Mar-1923. Vol: 18. Issue: 2. Page: 43. Price: . Title: Returning to the stable (OP). Type: COP.
Content: Reproduction in colour of oil painting showing a man leading a horse into a stable, sunlight coming in through door to left; man wearing red belt, exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. Page iv in article reported:
... at the Leicester Galleries when another well-known etcher, Mr Edmund Blampied, gave us evidence of his talent as a painter"
This oil painting is the same design as the drypoint 'Returning to the stable' (1920) [CD:51; AA:64; AH:E20.9] but in reverse.
Periodical: Drawing and Design.
Date: Apr-1923. Vol: 3. Issue: 36. Page: 406. Price: 1s 6d. Title: The haunts of gay and artistic souls are thronged. Type: BW1.
Content: Reproducton of a pen and ink drawing signed Blam, Monte Carlo, probably from 'The Bystander', showing waiter with tray to right heading towards couple at a table while other couples dance in background.
Periodical: Drawing and Design.
Date: May-1923. Vol: 3. Issue: 37. Pages: 447-454. Price: 1s 6d.
Title: The Art of E. Blampied.
Author: P.G. Konody.
Content: Article about Blampied and reproductions of drawings, dry points and oils.
► Oil painting: 'Tante Elizabeth' on Cover
► Portrait of Blampied by Saloman van Abbé (see left)
► Drawing: 'Vraicheurs' (see below)
► Drawing: 'Field Workers Returning Home' (see below)
► Oil painting: 'The Fisherman's Return' (see left)
► Lithograph: 'Paris', from 2 small sketches (see below)
► Drawing: 'Equestrienne' (see below)
► Oil painting: 'Mid-day Rest' (see below)
► Etching 'Come on, Boys' [CD:60; AA:73; AH:E21.2]
► Etching 'Purring and Snoring' [CD:62; AA:77; AH:E21.4]
Portrait of Edmund Blampied by Saloman van Abbé (S. Abbey).
Periodical: The Survey.
Date: Jun-1923. Vol: 50. Issue: 5. Pages: 287-290. Price: . Title: Chicago: Hobo capital of America. Author: G.S.. Type: ET1.
Content: Reproduction of 'Purring and snoring' [CD:62; AA:77; AH:E21.4] from Kennedy Gallery for a review of a book by Nels Anderson called "The Hobo"
Periodical: Shadowland.
Date: Aug-1923. Vol: 8. Issue: 6. Pages: 28-29. Price: 35c. Title: Dramatic impressions on copper. Type: DP3.
Content: Reproduction of drypoints: 'The Tumble' [CD:61; AA:80; AH:E21.7], 'Resting' [CD:75.ii; AA:93; AH:E23.7.ii], and 'The Fishermen's Return' [CD:70; AA:83; AH:E22.2.ii] courtesy of the Schwartz Gallery. Apricot toned prints.
Periodical: Colour.
Date: Jan-1924. Vol: 19. Issue: 6. Page: 5. Price: . Title: Horses eating hay. Type: DP1.
Content: Reproduction of 'Horses eating hay' [CD:80; AA:83; AH:E23.2].
— 1924 —
Periodical: Colour.
Date: Feb-1924. Vol: 20. Issue: 1. Page: 3. Price: 1/6. Title: The Tumble. Type: DP1. Content: Reproduction of etching 'The Tumble' [CD:61; AA:80; AH:E21.7]
Periodical: Colour.
Date: Feb-1924. Vol: 20. Issue: 1. Page: 9. Price: 1/6. Title: Purring and snoring. Type: ET1.
Content: Reproduction drypoint 'Purring and snoring' [CD:62; AA:77; AH:E21.4]
Periodical: Colour.
Date: Mar-1924. Vol: 20. Issue: 2. Page: 3. Price: 1/6. Title: Work in the field. Type: ET1.
Content: Reproduction of etching 'Work in the fields' [CD:21; AA:31; AH:E13.6]
Periodical: Colour.
Date: Jun-1924. Vol: 20. Issue: 5.Special: Issues 5-6. Page: 22. Price: 1/6. Title: Flies. Type: ET1.
Content: Reproduction of 'Flies' [CD:17; AA:17; AH:E13.2]
Periodical: Colour.
Date: Jun-1924. Vol: 20. Issue: 5.Special: Issues 5-6. Page: 18. Price: 1/6. Title: Fording the stream (1914; AA 36). Type: ET1.
Content: Reproduction of 'Fording the stream' [CD:38; AA:36; AH:E14.4].
Periodical: The Bystander.
Date: 23-Jul-1924. Vol: 83. Issue: 1077. Page: 238. Price: 1/-. Title: A London sidelight. Type: MO1.
Content: Reproduction of illustration from The Artist's London of selling geese.
An illustration reproduced from the 'The Artist's London' which is reviewed on this page, of selling geese in the Caledonian Market. The artist, Mr E Blampied, is well-known to Bystander readers as 'Blam'.
Periodical: The New Leader.
Date: 18-Jul-1924. Vol: 8. Issue: 3. Page: 11. Price: 2d. Title: A May Day. Type: MO1.
Content: From a drawing by Edmund Blampied.
Notes: This is a two-penny 16-page tabloid Socialist newspaper which incorporated The Labour Leader, a newspaper which was started as a monthly periodical called 'The Miner' in 1887 by Keir Hardie. Its editor in 1924 was H.N. Brailsford, a left-wing journalist and founding member in 1907 of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage. The Labour Party was in power for the first time - in a minority government - with Ramsay MacDonald as Prime Minister. The main article in the paper was on 'Mr Lloyd George's Coal Policy' by R.H. Tawney. The drawing may have been chosen for the title, although it was published in July. It's an odd periodical in which to find a drawing by Blampied.
Periodical: Colour.
Date: Aug-1924. Vol: 21. Issue: 1. Page: 9. Price: 1/6. Title: The Sick Man. Type: DP1.
Content: Reproduction of 'The Sick Man' [CD:65; AA:79; AH:E21.6]
Periodical: Arts & Decoration.
Date: Nov-1924. Vol: . Issue: . Pages: unknown. Price: unknown. Title: unknown. Type: ET1.
Content: Etching by Blampied, described on eBay, so no more information.
Periodical: Drawing and Design.
Date: Nov-1924. Vol: 4. Issue: 5. Page: 184. Price: 1/6. Title: (Goose seller, Caledonian Market). Type: DW1.
Content: Reproduction of drawing from 'Royal Magazine' of goose seller actually from a book The Artist's London. Title: An illustration by a famous etcher E.H.(sic) Blampied