ENID MARX (English /
1902-1998)
The artist and designer Enid Crystal Dorothy Marx ("Marco" to her friends) was born in London, a distant cousin of Karl Marx. She studied at the Central School and then at the Royal College of Art in the 1920s, but failed her diploma because she insisted on presenting abstract work. Frank Short refused her entry to the wood engraving class, but fellow-student Eric Ravilious sneaked her in after hours to teach her. Enid Marx had a long and varied career dominated by her love of patterns and of quirky objects. With her long-term partner Margaret Lambert she made an important collection of British folk art objects and paintings (now on permanent display at Compton Verney).
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Selected prints by
ENID MARX
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Patter Paper
designed for the
Curwen Press,
1927
Wood engraving |
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Patter Paper
designed for Chatto
& Windus,
c.1936
Wood engraving |
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Design for a
Christmas card,
c.1936
Wood engraving |
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ENID MARX
