Claude Flight

Claude Flight (1881-1955) was a British artist and the great champion of the linocut. From 1926 he taught at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in London, where he encouraged students to see the cheap, simple linocut as a modern art for everyone. His own prints capture the rush of London life, with buses, crowds and traffic shown in swirling lines and bright colour. His students included Cyril Power and Ethel Spowers. Explore more British art posters.