Artist Stanley Anderson records the rural artisans
The artist Stanley Anderson (1884-1966) was a perennial sceptic of 20th century ‘progress’. An engraver, etcher and watercolour painter, he started working in line engraving in the 1920s when it was an outmoded and almost extinct form of graphic output.
Into these works he injected elements of social commentary, expressing his dim view of contemporar…