Dear Peter Beard, your channel is a source of invaluable information about those "unsung heroes" , about which we would never even know! Thank you so much for your great job!
Another excellent video, Pete. And I couldn't help chuckling at the dark observation of the first artist that "he smoked like there was no tomorrow, and indeed there was no tomorrow..."
Thank you again Mr. Beard for another terrific video. F. Gregory Brown is an interesting revelation; somewhat ahead of his time I gather. Innovative use of colour.
Thanks yet again Pete! So glad all the comments posted on all of your videos are overwhelmingly positive for your tremendous work - I think we can safely say you've "passed the audition"! Keep up the good work and take care. Terry.
Hi again and thanks for your dedication in sticking with the channel. Yes I'm glad to say I usually get positive feedback apart from the occasional snipe. At least I havent had any death threats - yet.
Last year I made some research on Manuel Mayol for college, luckily I found many issues of Caras y Caretas in the old section of the library, but it's a shame that this is the best video analysing his life and work and it's not even in spanish, I'm from Argentina. I'm very grateful for your work, love this series.
Hello again Len, and that's a very nice thing to say. Gloomy everywhere right now - we're on a month's lockdown and I'm increasingly of the opinion that this will be the new normal. I always was a pessimist.
Hello Pete, I'm becoming addicted to your excellent videos. They are a real treat to watch. You have researched them so well and I love your dulcet voice. Thank you for your work on these videos and bringing so much interest and pleasure into our lives
Hello to you and many thanks for your generous appreciation of the channel. And your use of the word 'dulcet' has made me blush. It's a funny thing but I really don't care for the sound of my voice or accent but I'm pleased that others including yourself seem to disagree.
Thank you so much for these Pete Beard! Your research and care into insuring these great illustrations, and the illustrators who created them, get their spotlight in the modern world is unmatched! More important is the fact that you are making sure that both the art and the artist are not forgotten in time.....which is very emotional to think about! Thank you again, sir!
And many thanks to you for your support and positive response. I know it sounds corny but knowing these videos mean something to others means a lot to me.
I am incredibly grateful to have found this channel, your dedication to creating amazing videos detailing the history and craftsmanship of illustrators from different eras is something to be aspired to. Thank you! :^D
I´m an addict to these breathtaking revelations. I studied to be an illustrator forty years ago and worked for many years as one. What an inspiration this would have been.
I’m loving Gregory Brown’s art! It’s amazing how his style developed almost similarly hand in hand with the Shin-Hanga movement happening in Japan at about the same timeframe...
Hello John. I hope all is well with you and yours. Here it's another month of lockdown, although I hear there's hopeful news of a vaccine. To live normally again would be rather good.
@@petebeard Yes, but not until the Spring... we still have to get through the Winter. I watch your Sky News here in the US, so I've been following your situation over there. Stay safe my friend.
Just leaving a comment to let you know I've been absolutely enjoying this series over the past week. Such a good subject, with thorough research and a calming narration. Thank you for all the effort! One of the best series I've run across on RUclips. I love remembering illustrators from the past, and it inspires me to keep drawing, and try new techniques.
Hello again and it's very rewarding to know the videos are introducing viewers to great illustrators they were previously unaware of. I'm certainly finding out how little I knew previously. I'm also very taken with Brown's style, and that of many of his similar contemporaries.
Hi Ben. Now that's what I call dedication. I'm only sorry I can't turn them round any faster, but the good news is there's still more to do than I've already done - if I live long enough.
Hello and thanks for the comment. A couple of others have expressed favourable remarks about Mr. Brown, which I must say warms my heart. I always expect the more 'illustrator-y' illustrators to be the most popular.
When you got to showing Patten Wilson's work of field and woodland plants I immediately recognized them. It seems that I had them as a set of old prints and framed them in an old oak frame that I decorated with gold and black paint. It hangs in my wife's room because she sometimes seizes some of my better creations to display and enjoy in the home. I called her to come look at your video so I could share with her the find. Thank you...
@@petebeard So funny! Indeed you do! Oh, was it? Not that i know what their 'responsibilities and duties' are, but i can easily imagine why art directors would be a scourge... Wait; "The Blockheaded Philistines of Illustration (Who they were, what they did, and why they were so called)" That sounds like yet another but joyous, light-hearted, nigh diversionary, supplementary video!
That's not a bad idea but on mature reflection there would be no nice pictures to show. But the stories I could tell from my own experiences in the wacky world of advertising....
I do love your videos as they show a very large array of illustrators of very different styles from many countries. Some are truly astonishing. But to say that Lissac is almost "forgotten and criminally neglected" is, I would say, exaggerated. Not being mainstream or known by the anglo saxon world does not mean that Lissac has fallen into a black hole and disappeared. The original 1932 edition, 1000 hand made exemplars, of "Les chansons de Bilitis" by Louys and illustrated by Lissac is a must for any collector but truly extremely hard to find. Like lot of french illustrators, even those of the opposite sex, Lissac has "committed" a big bunch of erotic illustrations, There was (and is even nowadays) a strong and steady market as puritanism has little meaning for the French.
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. I'm aware that many of the illustrators I feature some consider to not be particularly unsung. But I'm trting to take a wider global view of those that are featured. Americans (and I know its a generalisation) seem to know very little about European illustration and they constitute a large part of my viewers. So although I understand your point I think you drastically overestimate most people's knowledge. Either way thanks for the comment.
@@petebeard Many thanks for your answer and again for your videos, which are a work of love. Surely I overestimate most people knowledge so it's good to make discover these artists.
Hello and thanks for your comments. I think Enid Blyton's Noddy were the first stories I can remember from my childhood in the 1950s. And regarding Asterix I feature it and the creators in (I think) French Illustration Part 3, and probably in my series on cartoons and comics too.
Great series of videos! Love discovering illustrators that I haven't come across before. Recommending your channel to all the illustration communities I participate in! I read that your cut off is 1910. Are you aware of any other resources that explore the lesser-known illustrators in the years after that?
Hello David and thanks a lot for your appreciation. And particularly for spreading the word about my channel. Regarding later illustrators I'm not aware of any resources although as I'm sure you're aware there are many blogs in particular which look at illustration from past to present. I wish I hadn't limited my ubsung series to the more distant past but as it is I've still got more to do than have already been done - and as an officially old person it's by no means certain I'll get through the lot. Thanks again.
...and I've just taken a look at some of your illustration. To say I'm impressed would be an understatement and if I was featuring more contemporary illustrators I'd definitely be wanting to cover your work. Terrific.
I was wondering if you have done Ron Elbleton.. the guy who did the paintings from Captain Scarlet.. penthouse magazine .. Oh Wicked Wander.. Sweet Chastity Thank you
Hello and thanks for the query about Ron Embleton. There's no reason you should know it but the unsung series confines itself to those born between 1850 and 1910 (something I should probably established from the get-go). So much as I admire his work he was born too late to qualify. But when/if I ever get to the end of this series I've already promise myself I'll tackle later subjects and he would be ideal.
@@petebeard many thanks Pete I love your in depth look into these illustrations of the artist.. thier all great im looking forward to seeing more from you. All the best and happy 2022 to you .
Admittedly I haven’t watched all your marvelous videos, but I would like to ask you do you have an American who’s first name is George and painted Indians. I know it’s not exactly your field of showing us illustrative works of art. Also, another American named Remington who did wonderful artwork of cowboys on horses. What you do show us, I must say is really great.
Hello and thanks for your comment and question. I'm afraid George has me scratching my head, but the Remington is Frederic Remington, wnose work can be found readily on google. But you are right to suggest he's not strictly an illustrator so he doesnt qualify for inclusion in the series.
Great video as always, Pete, but I'm curious, what is your definition of unsung? I've been thinking about this for a while, since the Illustration fandom already is pretty niche to begin with. Do you count an illustrator as unsung if they are relatively popular in the community of a certain country but not internationally?
Hi and thanks as usual. The catch-all title is a bit of a moveable feast and I'm well aware I've included a couple who struggle to be considered unsung. But broadly you're right about those whose reputation hasn't travelled muchouside their own country.
@@petebeard I get it, it's a handy way of recommending great artists, there's nothing wrong with that. If you need ideas for future episodes, I'd recommend Hans Arnold, Ilon Wikland and Ingrid Vang Nyman, who are all still big in my home country of Sweden, but doesn't really have a reputation internationally.
@@YggdrasilAudio Hello again and many thanks for your suggested illustrators. Sweden and the other Nordic countries are very much examples where not much gets out to the wider world. Unfortunately although I'm fascinated by and grateful for these suggestions - none of whom I had previously heard of - they were all born too late to qualify fr the unsung series. 1910 is my cut off point. But never say never and maybe I'll be able to make a one -off about them with a few others too. Thanks again.
Hello again and once again my thanks for your suggested illustrators. Unlike your obvious enthusiasm for the genre I've never been much of a one for widldlife illustration. There were the tea cards when I was growing up though, and at the time I was mad for them. Anyway not only are these illustrators (all unknown to me) now filed away for future use but you've now got me wondering whether a video devoted exclusively to wildlife wouldnt be a bad idea. It'll have to take its place in the queue though. If you have more I'd be pleased to consider them.
@@petebeard I had a book for Xmas , called " THE ART OF THE BIRD" by Roger Lederer. It has a chapter on Thomas Bewick ( 1753 - 1828 ), he was an engraver, and published his book " A History of British Birds" in 1797.
@@garymcguire8529 Hi again. Those images by Lucy Dawson really are a lot like Aldin's less graphic images. And Bewick was featured (admittedly briefly) in my first video - the art of illustration part one. Great woodcuts.
wonderful history of illustration...thank you once again!
And thanks to you again.
Dear Peter Beard, your channel is a source of invaluable information about those "unsung heroes" , about which we would never even know! Thank you so much for your great job!
Hello and thanks a lot for your enthusiastic comment. I'm glad you like the videos. Please subscribe and share if you can.
Another excellent video, Pete. And I couldn't help chuckling at the dark observation of the first artist that "he smoked like there was no tomorrow, and indeed there was no tomorrow..."
Hello again and thanks as usual for the comment -and I'm glad you appreciate my occasional attempts at humour.
Thank you again Mr. Beard for another terrific video.
F. Gregory Brown is an interesting revelation; somewhat ahead of his time I gather.
Innovative use of colour.
You're welcome and I'm glad you continue to get something out of the videos. Brown is criminally unsung given his contribution.
Thanks yet again Pete! So glad all the comments posted on all of your videos are overwhelmingly positive for your tremendous work - I think we can safely say you've "passed the audition"! Keep up the good work and take care. Terry.
Hi again and thanks for your dedication in sticking with the channel. Yes I'm glad to say I usually get positive feedback apart from the occasional snipe. At least I havent had any death threats - yet.
Last year I made some research on Manuel Mayol for college, luckily I found many issues of Caras y Caretas in the old section of the library, but it's a shame that this is the best video analysing his life and work and it's not even in spanish, I'm from Argentina.
I'm very grateful for your work, love this series.
Hello and thanks. He was a great illustrator and should be better remembered. Sorry I'm not Spanish speaking.
Another wonderful addition to the collection. Thanks Pete. You always bring a little sunshine to our gloomy days here in the states.
Hello again Len, and that's a very nice thing to say. Gloomy everywhere right now - we're on a month's lockdown and I'm increasingly of the opinion that this will be the new normal. I always was a pessimist.
@@petebeard I think I may have the same problem. I find a bit of momentary relief when I’m immersed in work. Write me via my website if you like.
Ive been binge watching ALL your videos.
Thank you so much for making these tops quality videos!
Hello and many thanks for your dedication to the channel. It's great to know the work is appreciated. Many more to come I hope.
Another wonderful trip down the rabbit hole of unsung heroes. Excellent , thank you for your ongoing hard work.
Thanks. It doesn't feel like hard work. I wish I'd done it years ago.
Hello Pete, I'm becoming addicted to your excellent videos. They are a real treat to watch. You have researched them so well and I love your dulcet voice. Thank you for your work on these videos and bringing so much interest and pleasure into our lives
Hello to you and many thanks for your generous appreciation of the channel. And your use of the word 'dulcet' has made me blush. It's a funny thing but I really don't care for the sound of my voice or accent but I'm pleased that others including yourself seem to disagree.
Thank you so much for these Pete Beard! Your research and care into insuring these great illustrations, and the illustrators who created them, get their spotlight in the modern world is unmatched! More important is the fact that you are making sure that both the art and the artist are not forgotten in time.....which is very emotional to think about! Thank you again, sir!
And many thanks to you for your support and positive response. I know it sounds corny but knowing these videos mean something to others means a lot to me.
A new episode of this series never fails to brighten my day, thank you for you âmazing work ^^
Thanks a lot for watching.
Once again Peter a cornucopia of amazing artists ....thank you sir x
And thanks to you for watching and appreciating the channel.
I am incredibly grateful to have found this channel, your dedication to creating amazing videos detailing the history and craftsmanship of illustrators from different eras is something to be aspired to. Thank you! :^D
What a welcome remedy to a rainy day, thanks!
As ever you are welcome. I should bill myself as a video therapist.
I’m dedicated to watching all of these postings! They’re so fresh and compelling.
Hello and many thanks for the flattering comment. Music to my ears.
Thoroughly enjoyable, as always! Thanks Pete.
Thanks a lot for sticking with the channel.
I´m an addict to these breathtaking revelations. I studied to be an illustrator forty years ago and worked for many years as one. What an inspiration this would have been.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation of the channel. It means a lot to me.
I’m loving Gregory Brown’s art! It’s amazing how his style developed almost similarly hand in hand with the Shin-Hanga movement happening in Japan at about the same timeframe...
Hi again and thanks for your continued support. Never heard of this Shin Haga thing so I'll be tracking it down for a look later.
Thanks for doing a deeper dive on Brown. Beautiful work that's always enchanted me. Again, thanks.
Hello and thanks a lot. If memory serves (and it doesn't always these days) there are a few more of similar style witing in the queue.
Hi Pete.... thanks for another very enjoyable lesson in the history of artists.
Hello John. I hope all is well with you and yours. Here it's another month of lockdown, although I hear there's hopeful news of a vaccine. To live normally again would be rather good.
@@petebeard Yes, but not until the Spring... we still have to get through the Winter. I watch your Sky News here in the US, so I've been following your situation over there. Stay safe my friend.
Just leaving a comment to let you know I've been absolutely enjoying this series over the past week. Such a good subject, with thorough research and a calming narration. Thank you for all the effort! One of the best series I've run across on RUclips. I love remembering illustrators from the past, and it inspires me to keep drawing, and try new techniques.
Hello and many thanks for your particularly appreciative comment. It really is very rewarding to know that viewers get something from the content
Best thing on RUclips, thank you
Thanks a lot. It's appreciated.
Thank you :)
You are more than welcome. I hope you keep watching.
I LOVE Gregory Brown’s work! The other artists are well up there too. Thank you for another stimulating and engrossing video.
Hello again and it's very rewarding to know the videos are introducing viewers to great illustrators they were previously unaware of. I'm certainly finding out how little I knew previously. I'm also very taken with Brown's style, and that of many of his similar contemporaries.
Huh. It appears I have reached the end. Until a new video appears, I shall return to the beginning and rewatch once more. 📺
Hi Ben. Now that's what I call dedication. I'm only sorry I can't turn them round any faster, but the good news is there's still more to do than I've already done - if I live long enough.
@@petebeard I, like the rest of the comments, truly appreciate these videos. Thanks for making them.
Thanks so much, pete, for sharing your research with us!
Hello and its a privilege and pleasure to be able to do so.
This channel is really a MIRACLE
Hello and that's a very flattering assessment. I'm duly grateful.
Thank You. No trick, a Halloween treat.
Hi and thanks for the appropriate and comic remark. I like to think my viewers are a cut above the usual.
That last artist, Gregory Brown, I like it very much.
Hello and thanks for the comment. A couple of others have expressed favourable remarks about Mr. Brown, which I must say warms my heart. I always expect the more 'illustrator-y' illustrators to be the most popular.
Careta is also the portuguese word for making a funny face or a scowl.
Hi - and thanks for the information. 'making a face' makes more sense.
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When you got to showing Patten Wilson's work of field and woodland plants I immediately recognized them. It seems that I had them as a set of old prints and framed them in an old oak frame that I decorated with gold and black paint. It hangs in my wife's room because she sometimes seizes some of my better creations to display and enjoy in the home. I called her to come look at your video so I could share with her the find. Thank you...
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation and comment. Bringing the work of almost forgotten talents such as his gives me great pleasure.
Thanks Pete for your research
You are welcome, and thanks for your appreciation.
" Blockheaded Philistines" 😊😊
Every once in a while I manage to come up with an amusing turn of phrase. I'm glad to say. It was also my opinion of art directors.
@@petebeard So funny! Indeed you do!
Oh, was it?
Not that i know what their 'responsibilities and duties' are, but i can easily imagine why art directors would be a scourge... Wait;
"The Blockheaded Philistines of Illustration (Who they were, what they did, and why they were so called)"
That sounds like yet another but joyous, light-hearted, nigh diversionary, supplementary video!
That's not a bad idea but on mature reflection there would be no nice pictures to show. But the stories I could tell from my own experiences in the wacky world of advertising....
im learning to illustrate its mind blowingly beautiful wonderful self discovery too
Hello and I'mglad you're getting something out of the channel.
I do love your videos as they show a very large array of illustrators of very different styles from many countries. Some are truly astonishing.
But to say that Lissac is almost "forgotten and criminally neglected" is, I would say, exaggerated. Not being mainstream or known by the anglo saxon world does not mean that Lissac has fallen into a black hole and disappeared. The original 1932 edition, 1000 hand made exemplars, of "Les chansons de Bilitis" by Louys and illustrated by Lissac is a must for any collector but truly extremely hard to find.
Like lot of french illustrators, even those of the opposite sex, Lissac has "committed" a big bunch of erotic illustrations, There was (and is even nowadays) a strong and steady market as puritanism has little meaning for the French.
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. I'm aware that many of the illustrators I feature some consider to not be particularly unsung. But I'm trting to take a wider global view of those that are featured. Americans (and I know its a generalisation) seem to know very little about European illustration and they constitute a large part of my viewers. So although I understand your point I think you drastically overestimate most people's knowledge. Either way thanks for the comment.
@@petebeard Many thanks for your answer and again for your videos, which are a work of love. Surely I overestimate most people knowledge so it's good to make discover these artists.
I'd enjoy hearing you expound upon Asterisk and Obalisk.
Hello and thanks for your comments. I think Enid Blyton's Noddy were the first stories I can remember from my childhood in the 1950s. And regarding Asterix I feature it and the creators in (I think) French Illustration Part 3, and probably in my series on cartoons and comics too.
Great series of videos! Love discovering illustrators that I haven't come across before. Recommending your channel to all the illustration communities I participate in!
I read that your cut off is 1910. Are you aware of any other resources that explore the lesser-known illustrators in the years after that?
Hello David and thanks a lot for your appreciation. And particularly for spreading the word about my channel. Regarding later illustrators I'm not aware of any resources although as I'm sure you're aware there are many blogs in particular which look at illustration from past to present. I wish I hadn't limited my ubsung series to the more distant past but as it is I've still got more to do than have already been done - and as an officially old person it's by no means certain I'll get through the lot. Thanks again.
...and I've just taken a look at some of your illustration. To say I'm impressed would be an understatement and if I was featuring more contemporary illustrators I'd definitely be wanting to cover your work. Terrific.
I was wondering if you have done Ron Elbleton.. the guy who did the paintings from Captain Scarlet.. penthouse magazine .. Oh Wicked Wander.. Sweet
Chastity
Thank you
Hello and thanks for the query about Ron Embleton. There's no reason you should know it but the unsung series confines itself to those born between 1850 and 1910 (something I should probably established from the get-go). So much as I admire his work he was born too late to qualify. But when/if I ever get to the end of this series I've already promise myself I'll tackle later subjects and he would be ideal.
@@petebeard many thanks Pete I love your in depth look into these illustrations of the artist.. thier all great im looking forward to seeing more from you.
All the best and happy 2022 to you .
Admittedly I haven’t watched all your marvelous videos, but I would like to ask you do you have an American who’s first name is George and painted Indians. I know it’s not exactly your field of showing us illustrative works of art. Also, another American named Remington who did wonderful artwork of cowboys on horses. What you do show us, I must say is really great.
Hello and thanks for your comment and question. I'm afraid George has me scratching my head, but the Remington is Frederic Remington, wnose work can be found readily on google. But you are right to suggest he's not strictly an illustrator so he doesnt qualify for inclusion in the series.
Great video as always, Pete, but I'm curious, what is your definition of unsung? I've been thinking about this for a while, since the Illustration fandom already is pretty niche to begin with. Do you count an illustrator as unsung if they are relatively popular in the community of a certain country but not internationally?
Hi and thanks as usual. The catch-all title is a bit of a moveable feast and I'm well aware I've included a couple who struggle to be considered unsung. But broadly you're right about those whose reputation hasn't travelled muchouside their own country.
@@petebeard I get it, it's a handy way of recommending great artists, there's nothing wrong with that. If you need ideas for future episodes, I'd recommend Hans Arnold, Ilon Wikland and Ingrid Vang Nyman, who are all still big in my home country of Sweden, but doesn't really have a reputation internationally.
@@YggdrasilAudio Hello again and many thanks for your suggested illustrators. Sweden and the other Nordic countries are very much examples where not much gets out to the wider world. Unfortunately although I'm fascinated by and grateful for these suggestions - none of whom I had previously heard of - they were all born too late to qualify fr the unsung series. 1910 is my cut off point. But never say never and maybe I'll be able to make a one -off about them with a few others too. Thanks again.
F. Gregory Brown's zoo posters are very similar to the zoo posters of Wilhelm Eigener.
Hello again and once again my thanks for your suggested illustrators. Unlike your obvious enthusiasm for the genre I've never been much of a one for widldlife illustration. There were the tea cards when I was growing up though, and at the time I was mad for them. Anyway not only are these illustrators (all unknown to me) now filed away for future use but you've now got me wondering whether a video devoted exclusively to wildlife wouldnt be a bad idea. It'll have to take its place in the queue though. If you have more I'd be pleased to consider them.
@@petebeard I had a book for Xmas , called " THE ART OF THE BIRD" by Roger Lederer. It has a chapter on Thomas Bewick ( 1753 - 1828 ), he was an engraver, and published his book " A History of British Birds" in 1797.
@@garymcguire8529 Hi again. Those images by Lucy Dawson really are a lot like Aldin's less graphic images.
And Bewick was featured (admittedly briefly) in my first video - the art of illustration part one. Great woodcuts.
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Pithy. Now there's a word I like and you don't often hear these days. Thanks.