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James Robert Granville Exley (1878-1967)
Painter, printmaker and teacher, born at Great Horton,
Bradford, Yorkshire. He studied at Skipton Art School and Royal College of Art, graduating in 1907.
He was headmaster of Hull Municipal Art School, 1912-19 and also taught in Cambridge, moving to
London in the 1920's. Exley was elected ARE in 1905 and RE in 1923, exhibiting at the Royal Academy,
Redfern Gallery and Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. He subsequently lived in Grassington,
Yorkshire. He features regularly in Fine Prints of the Year from 1923 to 1934 with a variety of
topographical prints and whimsical etchings and drypoints of fowl, pigeons, ducks and other country
subjects. The figure study was catalogued as a self portrait and as I can find no trace of any print of these dimensions
in my source material, I suppose it probably is....
Wild Drakes
Working Proof of 3rd State. February 10th 1906.
119x82mm
Self Portrait c1930
Etching 300x224mm
Trial proof inscribed 1st State
Members of the Flying Corps
Drypoint 1923
150x372mm. Illustrated in Fine Prints of the Year 1923
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