Ties, scarves & umbrellas

COLOUR GROUP TIES, SCARVES AND
UMBRELLAS

The new Colour Group tie

is now available with background colours of dark blue, maroon or grey at a price of 10 pounds sterling, plus one pound for packing and postage. Buy it at a Colour Group meeting to avoid the packing & postage.

There is also a Ladies scarf in silk georgette, featuring a painting of a rainbow by Sir Hubert von Herkomer, at a price of £20. It measures approx. 33mm x 140mm

Umbrellas are back in stock!

Price 10 pounds sterling, available at London meetings only.

The Colour Group Scarf

The original painting, oil on canvas, is by Sir Hubert von Herkomer, painted about 1875. It hangs in the Mutterturm (a memorial built by Herkomer in memory of his mother) in Landsberg-am-Lech in Bavaria. It is reproduced with the permission of the Curator.

Herkomer was born in Bavaria in 1849, his family emigrated to America when he was 2 years old, and then to Southampton when he was 8. From 1869 Herkomer's woodcuts began to appear regularly in The Graphic. He was one of the small number of English Social Realist artists whose black and white woodcuts were collected by and influenced Van Gogh. In 1875 Herkomer's work The Last Muster, a study of Chelsea Pensioners, caused a sensation at the Royal Academy.

The Herkomer Art School in Bushey opened in 1883 and the 500 to 600 students who attended during its twenty-one years came from world wide. Herkomer's teaching was progressive and aimed to develop each student's own artistic personality.

Herkomer died on 31 March 1914 and was buried in the parish churchyard at Bushey. For more information on Herkomer go to Bushey Museum.
The scarf carries a reproduction of the painting at both ends. It was inkjet printed onto pure silk georgette by the firm of R A Smart, using Lyson inks and a Mimaki inkjet textile printer.

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