Britain isn’t always remembered for modernist art, but a new exhibition at London’s Dulwich Picture Gallery makes you wonder why. “Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking” celebrates the bold, half-forgotten figures of the Grosvenor School of Modern Art. Founded after the First World War and closed at the onset of the Second, Grosvenor was briefly the country’s fiercest champion of linocut, the linoleum-based printmaking technique that first appeared in 1900s Germany but failed to catch on across the Channel. The same qualities that made linocut unpopular in other English schools—newness, cheapness, simplicity, versatility—allowed it to flourish at Grosvenor. Claude Flight, who taught most of the artists in this show, called it “an art of the people.” READ ON