Passing Scene : Eighteen Images of Southern Africa by Rupert Shephard
Collectors-No 185 of 200 Copies Printed and signed by author.
Passing Scene : Eighteen Images of Southern Africa by Rupert Shephard
No. 185 of 200 copies printed by Fairfax Hall at his private press in London and have been signed by the author.
The 18 colour prints (including frontispiece) were made from lino blocks between 1854 and 1961 which the author was working in Cape Town.
Publisher: The Stourton Press
Date Published: 1966
Publication Place: London
Condition: Very good. Some sunning to spine. Minor edge-wear
Binding: Hardcover.
Dimensions: Large 4to.
Rupert Shephard was born in Islington, the son of an engineer and a charity worker, who were both Quakers and keen amateur artists. He attended Repton School, before studying at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1926 to 1929.
From 1946 to 1948 Shephard taught at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. In 1942, Shephard had married his first wife, the daughter of a British businessman based in South Africa and in 1948 the couple moved to Cape Town with their children. Shephard spent fifteen years in South Africa as the director of the Michaelis Art School at the University of Cape Town. He had ten solo exhibitions in South Africa and also exhibited internationally. In 1962 his wife died and Shephard and his three children returned to Britain
