Erlund Hudson (1912–2011) - Mid 20th Century Etching Lavanderie

Description

A charming contemporary strike of the original plate from 1939, showing two women in a darkened interior doing laundry. The original drawing was executed during the artist's time in Verona. This contemporary strike was pulled at the Black Star Press by Anthony Dyson and has been signed by Hudson in graphite to the lower edge. Presented in a simple wood frame with wide card mount. On wove.

Condition

In fine condition.

Size

12.5 x 14cm (4.9" x 5.5")
Framed Size: 35.7 x 31cm (14.1" x 12.2")

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Artist Biography

Eleanor Hudson, known professionally as Erlund Hudson, (18 February 1912 – 9 March 2011), was a British artist. Hudson was a watercolourist, etcher and designer and is notable for her depictions of women at work during the Second World War and for her post-war paintings of ballet dancers.
Erlund Hudson was born in St Marychurch, near Torquay in Devon. She attended Torquay School of Art before securing a place in the school of engraving at the Royal College of Art, RCA.[2] She studied under Malcolm Osborne and Robert Austin. She gained her diploma in 1937, won drawing prizes, a continuation scholarship and an RCA travelling scholarship. In 1937, while still a student, Hudson was elected to the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, and to the Royal Watercolour Society in 1939. She travelled throughout Italy in 1938 and 1939.
At the start of World War II, Hudson went to Leicestershire and then to Kent, where she delivered her sister-in-law's baby when it was born prematurely during a thunderstorm. She also drew the canteens in Leicester where she helped with packing supply parcels for prisoners of war. Back in London, she moved to a fourth-floor flat in Earls Court and witnessed first-hand the death and destruction of the Blitz. She volunteered as a driver of a mobile canteen, actually a converted laundry van, and made tea and sandwiches for the rescue services attending at bomb sites. Later, she recalled how after a block of flats were bombed, bodies and limbs were strewn around. Visiting her mother in Torquay, she witnessed a similar scene in the aftermath of a bomb destroying a school. Hudson didn't draw these scenes, instead preferring to concentrate on depicting women volunteers hard at work for the war effort.
After the war Hudson designed costumes and scenery for Sadler's Wells and Ballet Rambert.