Harold Williamson

(Manchester 1898-1972)

Woman in a Landscape, c.1930s

etching on India laid paper

signed upper left 'HW'

Williamson took evening classes in etching as a young man, between 1913 and 1916, while serving in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve during WWI. After the war he worked as a designer for the fabric and wallpaper manufacturers, Sanderson & Sons. He held a post as master of painting at Bournemouth College of Art in the late 1920s, and in 1947 returned to Manchester as Head of Fine Art at the Manchester College of Art and Design. He was an exhibitor at the Royal Academy and the New English Art Club.