Maxwell armfield biography book

Maxwell Armfield — This excellent biographical sketch came from the former artmagick.

Maxwell armfield biography book: Book overview. Maxwell Armfield and Constance

There he came under the influence of , , and , who taught him the tempera technique he was to practice for the rest of his life, and was deeply impressed by the Pre-Raphaelite paintings in the Art Gallery. In his painting , inspired by the English poet Algernon Swinburne, was bought for the Luxembourg. In he married the writer Constance Smedley, with whom he was to work closely until her death in In they left for an intensely active and successful seven year spell in America.

Armfield was not only a painter but a prolific illustrator and versatile decorative artist, while being deeply involved in theatre, music, teaching and journalism and writing some twenty books, including poetry, accounts of foreign travel, and such textbooks as the much-acclaimed dedicated to Southall, Manual of Tempera Painting He was also a tireless researcher into occult religions, and passionately interested in the formal and philosophical basis of art.

Neglected for many years after the Second World War, he lived to see a revival of interest in his work before his death at the age of ninety-one in Back to Top. Our Modernist Journals have accompanying Biographies that feature the authors of the journals. Biographies back to All Biographies. Armfield, Maxwell by Scholes, Robert.