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CHRISTINE LINDEY is touched by an exhibition of evocative prints by Frank Brangwyn who shunned formal innovations in favour of socially conscious work
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Frank Brangwyn’s Prints
Brighton Museum
Prints and Drawings Gallery
Royal Pavilion Gardens
Brighton BN1

Who nowadays has heard of Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956)? Yet he’d had the greatest international reputation of any British artist, he exhibited with Monet, Whistler and Degas, was feted by the Vienna Secessionists and was praised by Kandinsky.    

Born in 1867 in Bruges to Anglo-Welsh, Catholic parents, he grew up in London from the age of eight.

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