Arthur Wragg and Walter Greenwood probably first met when they were both 32 years old in 1935. They then spent a year working on their collaborative book The Cleft Stick, or 'its the same the whole world over', which was published in 1937. This is made up of fourteen short stories by Greenwood, mainly written… Continue reading New Article: Arthur Wragg Draws Walter as a Schoolboy in ‘The Old School – an Autobiographical Fragment’ (The Cleft Stick, 1937) *
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New Article: Arthur’s Wragg’s Original Dust-wrapper Drawing for The Cleft Stick, and his Original Drawing of an Alternative Design (1936/7)
These two rare original dust-wrapper drawings by Arthur Wragg for his collaboration with Walter Greenwood on The Cleft Stick recently came to light through a Cornish auction house's sale of items in two artists' studios. I think both versions of Wragg's drawing show how carefully he thought about his dust-wrapper work when he was fully… Continue reading New Article: Arthur’s Wragg’s Original Dust-wrapper Drawing for The Cleft Stick, and his Original Drawing of an Alternative Design (1936/7)
New Article – Greenwood’s Personal Acting Copy of The Practised Hand, with his rehearsal notes and two character sketches by Arthur Wragg (1935)
This unique copy of Greenwood's only one-act play, the shocking The Practised Hand which concerned the killing of an elderly lodger by his land-lady and accomplices so they could cash in his life insurance, has been lost since 1935. It recently came to light in an auction in Cornwall of some items from Arthur Wragg's… Continue reading New Article – Greenwood’s Personal Acting Copy of The Practised Hand, with his rehearsal notes and two character sketches by Arthur Wragg (1935)
New Article – Underneath the Lamp-post: Arthur Wragg’s Incomplete Sketch for a New Walter Greenwood Dust-wrapper (1930? 1940s?)
In mid-February 2025 a Cornish auction house put on a sale of works from the studio of Wragg and Greenwood's friend and fellow artist Frederick Roberts Johnson. These included quite a large number of items which had come in turn by some means from Arthur Wragg's Polperro studio. I was able to buy through an… Continue reading New Article – Underneath the Lamp-post: Arthur Wragg’s Incomplete Sketch for a New Walter Greenwood Dust-wrapper (1930? 1940s?)
Walter Greenwood: Not Just Love on the Dole 