William Walcot (Russian 1874-1943) “42nd Street - NYC” Drypoint, 1929, Edition 375, Dickens 83 Archival Mat: 16 x 20 (40.7 x 50.8 cm) Sheet Size: 10 3/16 x 11 15/16 cm) Plate Size: 5 x 7" (12.5 x 18.3 cm) William Walcot was born in Russia. He grew up in Western Europe & South Africa, returning to Russia at the age of 17, & studied arts & architecture under Leon Benois at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. Later, he attended art schools in Paris. Walcot’s career as an architect in Moscow lasted only six years, but he managed to leave a lasting heritage of refined, pure Art Nouveau. in 1906, Walcot moved to London where he remained the rest of his life. There he was initially employed as a draughtsman for the South African architect Eustace Frere. He rarely returned to practical construction, designing only one London building: 61 St. James’s Street (1933). Walcot worked mainly as an architectural draftsman, famous for his artistic presentation of other architects’ designs & exhibiting his own work at the Royal Academy summer exhibitions. He was the most prominent architectural draughtsman of the 1920s & 30s, developing a somewhat impressionistic style in gouache & watercolor which won commissions from Edwin Lutyens, Herbert Baker & Aston Webb. He also engaged in printmaking, creating reconstructions of ancient Greek, Roman, Babylonian & Egyptian buildings plus other buildings throughout Europe. A folio of his work was published in 1919 as Architectural Watercolours & Etchings of William Walcot. He was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1913, as an associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers & Engravers in 1916 & a Fellow of the RIBA in 1922. He was also an associate of the British School at Rome. William Walcot | Russian 1874-1943, “42nd Street - Nyc”, Drypoint, 1929, Signed in Pencil, | Free Shipping
