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E. Barrett was an artist and also an employee in the Design department at the Nairn’s linoleum factory, a well-known Kirkcaldy firm. Here we see him capturing the skilled job of hand-printing. By the time this was painted machine printing had taken over, although some of older presses lingered on and were used to test the printing blocks. The man behind the printer is acting as an apprentice who in previous years would have been a young boy. These boys were known as tier boys because tier is a Scots verb meaning ‘to spread’ or ‘to plaster’. They used rollers to spread paint onto pads for the printers. This scene shows the traditional hand-printing method used to put patterns on linoleum. Kirkcaldy was the leading linoleum producing town in the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Title
The Queer-Like Smell
Date
1951
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 58.7 x W 75.6 cm
Accession number
KIRMG:2011.23
Acquisition method
unknown acquisition method
Work type
Painting
Inscription description
E. Barrett 1951
