Joseph Simpson (artist)

Joseph Simpson (1879–1939) British painter and etcher of portraits and sporting subjects.

Your Motherland Will Never Forget by Simpson from Canada in Khaki

Chronology

• 1879 born in Carlisle, Cumberland
• 1905 Simpson came to London, working for the press doing poster designs and doing oils in his spare time.[1]
• 1909 Frank Brangwyn encouraged Simpson to do his first etching.[2]
• 1918 Simpson became an official artist with the R.A.F. [3]
• 1926 Simpson’s first exhibition of etchings took place in Glasgow at Wishart Brown in March[4]
• 1939 died London, England

Bibliography

• Granville Fell, H. "The Etched Work of Joseph Simpson." The Print Collector’s Quarterly Vol 19 (1932): 212-233 a catalogue of 74 etchings (up to 1931).

Notes

1. Granville Fell, H. "The Etched Work of Joseph Simpson." P. 218
2. Granville Fell, H. "The Etched Work of Joseph Simpson." P. 218
3. Granville Fell, H. "The Etched Work of Joseph Simpson." P. 218
4. Granville Fell, H. "The Etched Work of Joseph Simpson." P. 222

External links

• cybermuse to search the National Gallery of Canada collection
• www.artistarchive.com Fell’s catalogue listing of over 70 prints.