A Man of Fifty

Artist Paul Drury (Nutley, Sussex, England, 1903 - 1987)

Date1928

Mediumetching on paper

ClassificationsPrints

DimensionsPlate Size: Height: 14.5 cm, Width: 13.2 cm

AcquisitionPurchased in 1956 with income from the Innes Bequest.

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG005971

Keywords

Portrait

About MePaul Drury was the son of the sculptor, Alfred Drury. He attended Goldsmiths' as an art student from 1921. Most of his early prints, such as this one, are portraits, although he is best known for the two or three small pastoral landscape etchings which recall the work of his colleagues, Graham Sutherland and Robin Tanner. Their deeply poetic quality was to exert a powerful influence on the succeeding generation of neo-Romantic artists. In later life Drury introduced a greater sense of design and also sometimes humour into his work.

Drury was widely regarded as one of the finest etchers of his day and this was recognised when he was appointed President of the Royal Society of Etchers, a post he held until 1975.