Muriel Jackson

{{Short description|English wood engraver}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Muriel Blomfield Jackson | honorific_suffix = | image =  | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name =  | birth_date = 9 March 1901 | birth_place = London | death_date = 1977 | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | nationality =  | education = Hampstead Day School | alma_mater = Central School of Arts and Crafts | known_for = Wood engraving | notable_works = ''Wagon on the Heath'' (1931) | style = | movement = | spouse = Francis Courtenay Mason | children = 2 | parents = | father = Arthur Blomfield Jackson | mother = Ida Mary Phipps | relatives = Charles J. Phipps (grandfather) | family = | awards = {{awd|Logan Medal of the Arts|1931|Wagon on the Heath}} | elected = Associate of the Society of Wood Engravers }} '''Muriel Blomfield Jackson''' (9 March 1901 – 1977) was an English wood engraver who was active at the beginning of the twentieth century. She was a pupil of Noel Rooke at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and exhibited regularly with the Society of Wood Engravers.<ref name=Selborne>Joanna Selborne, 'The Society of Wood Engravers: the early years' in ''Craft History 1'' (1988), published by Combined Arts.</ref>

==Biography== Muriel Jackson was born in London, the daughter of architect Arthur Blomfield Jackson, and was educated at Hampstead Day School.<ref name="SG2019">{{cite book|author=Sara Gray|publisher=Dark River|year=2019|title= British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts |isbn=978-1-911121-63-3}}</ref><ref name="BuckmanV1">{{cite book|author=David Buckman|publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd|year=2006|title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L |isbn=0-953260-95-X}}</ref> She studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London from 1917 to 1922 under Noel Rooke for wood engraving and F. Ernest Jackson for tempera painting.<ref name="BuckmanV1"/> From 1920 she specialised in recording gypsy caravans on Hampstead Heath, and in 1922 she designed a poster ''Happy days at the zoo'' for London County Council Tramways.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.ltmuseumshop.co.uk/happy-days-at-the-zoo-small|title= A poster designed by Jackson for London County Council Tramways}}</ref> She was a finalist in the British Prix de Rome scholarship competition in 1925 and in 1931 received the Logan Medal of the Arts at the International Exhibition of Lithography and Wood Engraving in Chicago, for her print ''Wagon on the Heath''.<ref name="SG2019"/>

In 1928 she married Francis Courtenay Mason (1891–1953), a surgeon of Harley Street. They had two children, a son and a daughter.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mason, Francis Courtenay (1891–1953)|url=http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E005143b.htm|website=Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online|publisher=Royal College of Surgeons|accessdate=27 May 2017}}</ref>

==Wood engravings== Jackson exhibited with the Society of Wood Engravers from 1923 to 1940, when the society ceased arranging exhibitions until it was revived by Margaret Pilkington in 1949. She was elected an associate of the society in 1925.<ref name="SG2019"/> She was never commissioned to illustrate any books, but her work was reproduced sporadically in ''Drawing and Design'' and the ''Studio''.<ref name="SG2019"/> Her wood engraving ''Motor bike'' was reproduced in the August 1924 number of ''Drawing and Design'', and ''The Fencers'' in the March 1930 number of the ''Studio'', which also reproduced ''Balaam's Ass'' in the June 1951 number. Malcolm C. Salaman reproduces ''Harvesters, Italy'' in his 1930 review published by the ''Studio''<ref>Malcolm C. Salaman, ''The New Woodcut'' (London, Studio, 1930.</ref> and grants her the terse comment: '"There is a splendid pictorial rhythm in Miss Muriel Jackson's "Harvesters, Italy"." Jackson also exhibited works with the New English Art Club and, between 1927 and 1966, at the Royal Academy in London.<ref name="SG2019"/> During her career, Jackson completed a number of public commissions for murals, notably for St Peter's Church at Limehouse in east London.<ref name="SG2019"/> She was a member of the Red Rose Guild.<ref>{{cite book |date=1977 |title=Who's Who in Art: Biographies of leading men and women in the world of art today 18th Edition |publisher=Art Trade Press |location=Havant |page=231 |isbn= 9780900083075}}</ref>

Her work is represented in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.<ref name="BuckmanV1"/>

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==External links== *{{Art UK bio}}

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