Edwin (Ted) Dutch
Flying Machine I
1973

Artist: Edwin (Ted) Dutch (1928-2008)
Title: Flying Machine I
Date: 1973
School: New Zealand
Medium: screenprint
Dimensions: 510 x 760mm
Watermark: none
Inscriptions/marks: on the image lower border in pencil left to right <<Artist’s proof…..’Flying Machine I’……..Ted Dutch 1973>>
Condition: fine condition, matted and framed
Description: A classic 1970s screenprint depicting a bi-plane flying over a purple sky with a group of schematic figures lower left. Dutch studied at the South-West Essex Technical College where he learned the technique of silk-screen printing. Dutch worked as a commercial artist in Auckland from his arrival in 1951, having worked in the advertising, film and animation industries in the UK. The broad areas of colour and the over-printing of the plane’s silhouette are typical of a classic 1970s screenprint.
Reference: Peter Cape, Prints and Printmakers in New Zealand, Auckland; Collins, 1974, ill. p. 83
Provenance: Webb’s, 2023