Letters from the artist, Albert Rutherston (formally known as Albert Rothenstein)...

This collection comprises letters, many of which are illustrated with sketches, sent from Albert Rutherston to Mary Dowdall (1881-1953). Accompanied by a small cache of pen and ink sketches of characters, as well as male and female figures by Rutherston (n.d.)

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Albert Rutherston was the son of Moritz Rothenstein, a German businessman who emigrated to England, and the brother of the artist Sir William Rothenstein. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and at the Slade School of Art (1898-1902), where he held a Slade Scholarship. He exhibited with the New English Art Club from 1900 and held his first one-man exhibition at the Carfax Gallery in London in 1910. Rutherston served in Egypt and Palestine during the First World War and anglicized his surname in 1916. From 1929 to 1949 he was Ruskin Master of Drawing at Oxford. He was known for his decorative work and as an illustrator. He edited the series 'Contemporary British Artists' (1923-27). His publications include 'Decoration in the Art of the Theatre' (1919) and 'Sixteen Designs for the Theatre' (1928). Mary Dowdall (1876-1939) was a novelist. She was married to Harold Chaloner Dowdall, Lord Mayor of Liverpool (1908-09), and probably met Rutherston through her friend Augustus John. The earliest monograph, part of the 'Contemporary British Artists' series, was 'Albert Rutherston' (1925), by R. M. Y. G. [Reginald Gleadowe]. Further information can be found in 'Albert Rutherston, 1881-1953: An Appreciation' (1988), by Rutherston's son Max Rutherston.