Biography
Arthur Read (b. Bermondsey, London 1879 - d. 1955) travelled to Japan in 1920s. He lived and worked in Winchelsea, Sussex, for a time. Read exhibited widely, 1923-40, including: Glasgow Institute of Fine Art, Royal Academy, Walker Art Gallery, The Redfern Gallery and the Beaux Arts Gallery, London. He was a member of the Colour Print Club, of which he was a founder member and vice-president, and also a member of the Society of Graver-Printers in Colour. One of his prints, a colour woodcut, Roses - purchased by Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) for the Contemporary Art Society, with its Prints and Drawings Fund in 1925 and presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London in 1926 - was included in Woodcuts of Today at Home and Abroad (1927). His work can be found in the Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, the Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand and the Brooklyn Museum, USA, as well as in the British Museum.
