FLIGHT, Claude

W.CLAUDE FLIGHT
British 1881-1955
An important colour linocut artist. Born in London, he started by trainingg in engineering, later he worked as a librarian, farmer and bee-keeper. At the age of thirty-one, he enrolled at Heatherley’s Art School. There he met C.R.W.Nevinson, a former student who introduced him to the Italian Futurists Marinetti and Severini. In 1919 he became a founder member of the Seven and Five Society whose members included henry Moore, Ben Nicholson and Brabara Hepworth, but was later voted out. He became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists, and in 1928 joined the Grubb Club. Flight probably learnt the technique of the linocut from seeing the work of Viennese teacher Professor Franz Cizek. With Iain MacNab he ran the Grosvenor School of Modern Art where he taught lino-cutting . The school became well known as a centre for modernist colour lino-cutting. His pupils included Edith Lawrence (with whom he founded an interior design business), Cyril Power and Eileen Mayo. He treated modern day subjects, often involving movement and engineering, in a futurist style. He published nine books on linocutting.

Christmas and other Feasts and Festivals by Claude Flight (BOOK)

Lino-Cuts by Claude Flight (BOOK)