Joseph Simpson (artist)

Your Motherland Will Never Forget by Simpson from Canada in Khaki

Joseph Simpson (1879–1939) British painter and etcher of portraits and sporting subjects.

Chronology

• 1879 born in Carlisle, Cumbria
• 1905 Simpson came to London, England working for the press doing poster designs and doing oils in his spare time.
• 1909 Frank Brangwyn encouraged Simpson to do his first etching.
• 1918 Simpson became an official artist with the R.A.F.
• 1926 Simpson’s first exhibition of etchings took place in Glasgow at Wishart Brown in March
• 1939 died London, England

Bibliography

• Granville Fell, H. "The Etched Work of Joseph Simpson." The Print Collector’s Quarterly Vol 19 (1932): 212-233 a catalogue of 74 etchings (up to 1931).

External links

• cybermuse to search the National Gallery of Canada collection
• www.artistarchive.com Fell’s catalogue listing of over 70 prints.