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Lill Tschudi was born in Schwander, Switzerland. She moved to London in 1929 to attend the Grosvenor School of Modern Art under the teaching of Claude Flight, a specialist in linoleum cut printing. During the one year that she was at the Grosvenor School, she worked under the influence of Cubism, Futurism, and Vorticism. Sailors Holiday, created shortly after this tutelage, displays all aspects of these styles. Its subject is also workers, typical of Tschudi's interest in mmodern life.
After leaving London, Tschudi traveled through Europe, working briefly with Fernand Leger and Gino Severini. She returned to Switzerland during World War II and began teaching linocut and mosaic.
Source: News, July/August 1990.
Exhibition History"Selected Print Acquisitions from the Past Ten Years," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Exhibition History"Selected Print Acquisitions from the Past Ten Years," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
DimensionsSheet: 10 1/4 × 8 1/8 in. (26 × 20.6 cm)
Image: 9 1/2 × 11 1/8 in. (24.1 × 28.3 cm)
Image: 9 1/2 × 11 1/8 in. (24.1 × 28.3 cm)
Accession Number 1990.6
Classificationsprint
Edition48/50
Provenance(Mary Ryan Gallery, New York); (Des Moines Art Center Print Club [purchased from the previous, 1990]); Des Moines Art Center [gift of the previous, 1990]
