John Hall Thorpe Boxed Notecard Assortment
John Hall Thorpe’s colorful woodcut prints depicting flowers and landscapes made him a household name in the early 1920s. His work became an international phenomenon and included accessible, inexpensive, and bright reproductions to liven up any home. At the forefront of interior decoration in his time, he also influenced trends in wallpaper design. His work eventually fell out of fashion but, 60 years after his initial fame, experienced a resurgence in popularity during the 1980s. Today his prints are highly sought after and hang in many museums around the world, including the four works on these notecards, which are part of the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. Contains five each of the following notecards: Country Bunch, before 1924, Crocus, 1922, Cowslips, before 1924, Anemones, 1922.
• 20 blank notecards (5 each of 4 designs) with envelopes in a decorative box
• Printed in full color on FSC paper with soy based inks
• High-quality 250 gsm card stock
• Soft white envelopes
• Pomegranate’s notecard sets feature exclusive selections of art from museums and artists around the world
Card size: 5 x 7 in.
The gaily coloured original woodcuts of John Hall Thorpe (Australian, 1847-1947) became something of an international phenomenon during the 1920’s and 30’s. Designed with the specific intention of providing bright, colourful decoration, Hall Thorpe’s hand-made prints were produced as a reaction against what he saw as the dull, laborious realism of so much of the decoration in people’s homes at the time. These simple yet highly distinctive hand-made works were immensely popular in their day and will remain a definitive statement of interior design between the two World Wars.
