Exhibition - Calligrapher and typographer Percy Smith at Hampstead Museum - To August 15
Published: 6 May 2010
GAS masks and grim death marches feature in artwork by a prolific Hampstead calligrapher, typographer and printmaker that will be on display at the Hampstead Museum in Burgh House next week. Percy Smith (1882-1948) lived in Hampstead in the 1930s and the 1940s and his versatile woodcuts, etchings, letterings, sketches and watercolours, depict life in those tumultuous decades. Smith also served in the First World War and produced sketches of the plains of France and Belgium laid waste by that conflict and etchings evoking the horror of war.
• Percy Smith, Hampstead Museum, Burgh House, New End Square, Hampstead, NW3, 020 7431 0144, noon to 5pm Wednesday-Sunday. Free. May 12-August 15