Carlo Norway

Carlo Norway (born 1886)^[1] was an artist who worked in multiple mediums but specialised in lino-cuts and who was a member of the Decorative Art Group (founded 1916).^[2]

Norway studied at Colarossi's in Paris, and later at the Royal Academy in Dresden.^[1] He toured Europe. Norway was well known in London bohemian circles before the First World War and a customer at the Crab Tree Club.^[3] In 1919 he was subject to a coruscating review of his work at the Adelphi Gallery by Ezra Pound, being described as being in an "aggravated state of utter uncertainty, hoping to please everybody at once".^[4] In 1926 he exhibited at the Chester Gallery in London.^[5]

References

1. Carlo Norway (1886 - 1916 - 1927). Modernist Journals Project. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
2. Walsh, Michael J. K. (Ed.) (2007). A Dilemma of English Modernism: Visual and Verbal Politics in the Life and Work of C.R.W. Nevinson (1889-1946). University of Delaware Press. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-87413-942-6.
3. May, Betty. (1929) Tiger Woman: My Story. (2014 reprint) London: Duckworth, p. 77. ISBN 978-0715648551
4. Ezra Pound (1980). Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts. New York: New Directions Books. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-8112-1783-5.
5. "Art Exhibitions". The Times, 3 November 1926, p. 12.