Eric Thake 'What a Cow' - Collected by Julie bright & vivid Auguste Blackman’s self-portraits are broad

Auguste Blackman’s self-portraits are broad

'Blue Portrait' 2008

It represents the last of Thake’s cards

'The Conversation'

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Eric Thake 'What a Cow' - Collected by Julie bright & vivid Auguste Blackman’s self-portraits are broadEvery year, modernist Eric Thake would send his friends a hand made Christmas card. Original linocut prints, these cards have since become canonical, each observing a changing nation through one its most distinct voices. There are notes of humour, critique and poeticism. Dated 1945, What a Cow is a graphic mirage. Their shadows run down the page, recalling a trees spray of limbs or an open hand. Represented across numerous public collections,