Archibald Standish Hartrick

Archibald Standish Hartrick (7 August 1864 – 1 February 1950) was a Scottish painter known for the quality of his lithographic work. His works covered urban scenes, landscapes and figure painting and he was a founder member of the Senefelder Club.

Life and work Woman's Work:On the Railway - Engine and Carriage Cleaners (c. 1917) (Art.IWM ART 161764) Hartrick was born in Bangalore, the son of Captain William Hartrick of the 7th Regiment of Foot and his wife Josephine Smith, daughter of Dr Archibald Smith of Edinburgh. The family moved to Scotland when Hartrick was two years old. His father died shortly afterwards and in due course his mother married Charles Blatherwick, a doctor and keen amateur watercolourist who had been involved in the establishment of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour.

After attending Fettes College, Hartrick studied medicine at Edinburgh University before studying art at the Slade School of Art in London and then at both the Academie Julian and the Atelier Cormon in Paris. He spent the summer of 1886 at Pont-Aven with Paul Gauguin. Hartrick drew and painted Gauguin, van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec during his time in France. Hartrick became a prolific magazine artist and also provided illustrations for the magazine Black and White, for the Daily Chronicle, The Ludgate Monthly and Pall Mall Budget. Hartrick moved to London, where he taught drawing at the Camberwell School of Art from 1908 to 1914 and later at the Central School of Art, where he taught lithography until 1929. His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics. A series of his works showing rural characters, entitled Cotswold Types was acquired by the British Museum. During the war, he also produced a series of twelve lithographs under the title London in Wartime. At the start of the World War II, he was among the first to offer his services to the War Artists' Advisory Committee. In 1940, he was the first artist commissioned to record the work of the Women's Land Army, the same subject he had covered in World War I. Prints of his work were sold in at the National Gallery during the war and featured in the Britain at War exhibition that opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in May 1941. During the war, Hartrick also painted scenes near his former home at Tresham in Gloucestershire for the Recording Britain scheme. 1932: Lithography as a Fine Art 1939: A Painter's Pilgrimage through Fifty Years.