| 词条 | Sybil Pye |
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| name = Sybil Pye | image = | image_size = | alt = Anna Sybella Pye | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth_date|df=y|1879|11|18}} | birth_place = Marylebone, London | death_date = 1958 (age 79) | death_place = | nationality = British | spouse = | field = Bookbinding | training = | movement = | notableworks = | works = | patrons = | influenced by = | influenced = | awards = | elected = | website = | bgcolour = }}Sybil Pye (18 November 1879 – 1958) was a self trained British bookbinder famous for her distinctive inlay Art Deco leather bindings. She was, along with Katharine Adams and Sarah Prideaux, one of the most famous women bookbinders of their period.[1] She was the only binder in England and one of a few in the world whose specialty was inlaid leather bindings.[2] LifePye was born Anna Sybella Pye in Marylebone, an area of London, England, and a member of a distinguished family. She was one of seven children (four brothers and two sisters) born to Margaret Thompson Thompson Kidston, daughter of James Burns Kidston of Glasgow and William Arthur Pye JP, a successful wine merchant and collector of oriental and contemporary art.{{sfn|Oldfield|2004}} They lived in Limpsfield, Surrey, in a house called Priest Hill. Their neighbours included a number of progressive families including Sydney and Margaret Olivier and Edward and Constance Garnett and all their children became friends. Their parents entertained many literary and artistic figures of the time including Laurence Binyon and Thomas Sturge Moore. The oldest sister was Edith Mary Pye and one of the few women Chevaliers of the Legion of Honour for her work in France during World War I.{{sfn|Saunders|1961}} and the youngest was the artist turned sculptor, Ethel Pye (ca. 1882–1960), who was educated at the Slade School and worked in bronze and wood.{{efn|Edith and Ethel were Quakers, and during the First World War worked for the Friends War Victims Relief Committee (FWVRC) at Châlons-sur-Marne, France (Maison Maternelle de la Marne). Ethel commemorated her time there in a small bronze sculpture titled Marne 1914-1919, which is in the Society of Friends reading room.{{sfn|Society of Friends|2014}} }}{{sfn|Sculpture 1851–1951|2018}}{{sfn|British Museum|2017}} Her brothers included David Randall Pye, the scientist and father of the sculptor, William Pye and Edmund Burns Pye (1878-1959), father of David Pye, an accomplished wood-turner and carver, theorist of design and handcraft, and Professor of Furniture Design at The Royal College of Art (RCA) in London. He donated Sybil's papers to the RCA.[3] Sybil was in poor health in her childhood and her first job was as a teacher in a private kindergarten. Ethel and Sybil belonged to a circle of friends of Rupert Brooke, known as the Neo-pagans, which included the Olivier sisters and David Garnett. When their father died in 1933, the sisters moved to Newick, Sussex to be close to one of their brothers. Neither of them married and both lived and worked together all their lives, although Moore proposed to her and wrote the poems of The Little School (1905) for her. She died in 1958 at the age of 79. WorkShe first met Thomas Sturge Moore in 1899 and she developed a close life-long friendship. After Moore introduced her to Charles Ricketts, the artist and book designer, she developed an interest in bookbinding.[4] She taught herself, learning from Douglas Cockerell's classic, Bookbinding and the Care of Books, but also used Moore and Ricketts as advisors and critics throughout her career. By 1906 she had produced her first binding after establishing a workshop in her father's house. Early bindings were in white or natural pigskin but she increasingly used colored goatskin leather inlays and by 1934 bound a book with 6 different colored inlays. In 1925 she made a record of the books she had bound and kept it up until 1955. From 1910 to 1946 her work was regularly exhibited in England and around the world.[5][6] In 1931, the book collector, John Roland Abbey, commissioned her to produce a binding of his own design for Siegfried Sassoon’s Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. In her lifetime, she completed an estimated 164 bindings.[7] Towards the end of her binding career, the quality of her work suffered due to an injury to her wrist that never healed properly. Sybil was one of the youngest of the pre-War women binders. LegacyPye's bindings are held by private collectors and collecting institutions alike.
Notes{{notelist}}References1. ^Tidcombe, Women Bookbinders, p. 6 2. ^Tidcombe, Women Bookbinders, p. 153 3. ^"Royal College of Art, Sybil Pye notebooks (1 box)" 4. ^"Pye, Sybil (1879–1958)". The Oxford Companion to the Book. Retrieved 2 March 2016." 5. ^Tidcombe, Women Bookbinders, p. 155 6. ^Pye, Sybil. "Catalogue of an exhibition of book-bindings" 7. ^Tidcombe, Women Bookbinders, pp. 208-214 }} Bibliography{{refbegin|30em}}
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