May Day and Workers: Remembering Walter Crane (1845-1915)
May Day and Workers: Remembering Walter Crane (1845-1915) Born in Liverpool, England, he was the second son of an artist Thomas Crane, member of the local Liverpool Academy, who supported his family through portraits, silhouettes and lithograph engravings which he often produced at home on his own printing press. Surrounded by an energetic and highly creative extended family, Walter later described himself as being born with a “pencil and paper in hand” experiencing the urge to draw as a…
