26 Anatomy for Artists, Being an Explanation of Surface Form
Title: Anatomy for Artists, Being an Explanation of Surface Form
Artist/Source: Eugene Wolff (1896-1954)
Date: 1945, third edition
Henry Tonks employed Eugene Wolff
(1896-1954) to teach anatomy at the Slade over a period of ten years. Wolff fits
into a tradition of physicians teaching artists anatomy. Wolff was an
ophthalmic surgeon at the
Wolff
dedicated Anatomy for Artists to Tonks, “for his great interest and
most useful criticism and advice with regard to the diagrams”. The book was
first published in 1925 with illustrations by George Charlton, and is currently
in its fourth edition. Wolff emphasizes the importance of understanding
underlying anatomy to producing contour, clearly revealing the influence of
Tonks’ teaching technique. The pages scattered with smaller anatomical sections
reproduce the layout of several of the plates in Albinus’ influential anatomy
atlas (see in this pack). Albinus’ atlas had long been used by Slade students,
and was reprinted alongside Anatomy
for Artists in Robert
Beverley Cole’s Albinus on
Anatomy.
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