Musrum

Anthony Earnshaw

Book (Signed First Edition)
35cm x 26cm
Produced 1968

Added to the Collection in 2015 (via SAL donation)

Anthony Earnshaw was born in Ilkley in 1924. He discovered Surrealism through poetry and literature at the age of 20.
In Anthony’s own words: ‘Surrealism for me was home. Towards the end of the ’60s. Eric Thacker and I together wrote and illustrated two off-beat novels Musrum and Wintersol. We also collaborated to produce a strip cartoon featuring a mercurial hero who embodies the seemingly contradictory characteristics of mischief maker and an innocent abroad, dismayed by the prospect of existence.’ Anthony died in 2001.

Example illustration from Musrum pictured.