Stock no: 600 050

A pencil and charcoal study of fisherman washing down his boat

signed Glynn Boyde Harte

34cm w x 41cm 2cm

Circa 1990

£195

Harte was born in Rochdale, his father Herbert worked as a commercial artist and later teaching.[1] Harte always maintained that print was in his blood, his grandfather being a printer by trade and his earliest memory being a garden path made from lithograph stones.[1] He was educated at Rochdale Grammar School, before progressing to the Rochdale School of Art. He later transferred to St Martin's School of Art, where tutor Fritz Wegner encouraged him to move from black and white to colour. He would later join the Royal College of Art in 1970 where his tutors were Brian Robb, Edward Bawden, Paul Hogarth[2] and Peter Blake. The artwork at his final show all sold, much to Harte's surprise.[3][1]

Some of his early exhibited work at the Royal College included Gertrude Stein With Alice B Toklas Wallpaper, Nice: Jetée Promenade Avec Biscuit and Lady Cunard And Pig, which were created by the mix media of images culled from postcards, newspaper photographs and food packaging.[1] His early enthusiasts included Tom Stoppard, who wrote the introduction for Harte's show at the Thumb gallery in 1976:[1]

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