Flashar is a wonderful artist, first time i've heard of him. Rabier created a lot of good fun illustrations. First time 'heard of this illustrator . I loved the Leslie Ragan art, very impressive indeed and he was a WW 1 fighter pilot ! I also loved Gilroy. He was born in my part of the country. Wonderful artist/illustrator. Fantastic part 66 from you !
Hello again and thanks for your positive response to the video. Usually in an unsung heroes there's at least one I'm actually not that keen on, but this was 4 out of 4 for me, and it seems quite a few viewers.
Flashar's b&w stuff is like Mad Magazine meets Punch. You have to love that. Rabier is delicious. I'm getting flashbacks with some of his stuff, to picture books i would have had in the late fifties. Ragan seems like classic poster art with just that lttle bit more 'art' - nice. Gilroy feels tremendously familiar, as I suppose is natural. He sort of makes me hanker after those old Oor Wullie and The Broons annuals that I gave away 55 years ago. I'm not absolutely sure why. Many thanks once again for all your hard work and the delight that ensues therefrom.
HiPaul, and thanks as ever. Flashar was a real revelation to me. So believable and comic. I grew up in the 50s well aware of Gilroy's posters and they were at least partially responsible for my own determination to be an illustrator.
My Goodness...Max Flashar foreshadowed Normal Rockwell's style, and Leslie Ragan ability to make inanimate subjects exciting is quite amazing, of course John Gilroy's posters are a joy to look at. These videos are like a touchstone to sanity in our crazy times.
Incredible! I live just a few blocks from the Cleveland Terminal Tower featured in Ragan’s work. Covid-19 finally and effectively dispatched with any life left in that beautiful building and the complex. Hope it reinvents itself again. Thanks again for some amazing finds. Breathtaking and subtle.
Benjamin Rabier illustrations looks like he greatly influenced the Disney artists. Beautiful work. Thank you for your sharing these unsung illustrators and artists, that gave us a smile, and gave us beautiful visions.
Hello and thanks for the comment. You're right Rabier's drawings do look like they might have influenced not only early Disney but the Fleischer brothers too. Who knows? - but I think he was published in the USA.
*WOW!* what an exceptional presentation, felt like a kid again unwrapping presents. Yes, that's a Christopher Walken ... one second, two second ... pause, WOW!
I discovered this fabulous channel this morning and I am in love with it! I am an Artist and I grew up reading lots of comic books. I love this! Thank you sooo much 👌🌟♥️
Hi again Mr. Beard. I really enjoyed this instalment. Max Flashar is almost a precursor to Norman Rockwell isn't he ? Beautiful technique and talent. Benjamin Rabier, the precursor of Hergé ... Brilliantly researched, written and narrated. Thank you so much for the time and effort you put into these presentations. This was one of your best.
Hello and thanks as usual. Yes I too made the connection with Rockwell and his contemporaries, but I must say give me Flashar's watercolours any day. He made it look so easy, and what a pain that there's so little in colour.
@@petebeard I'll have to delve more into that aspect of his work. Thanks for the feedback. A thought as I mused over this installment. We all stand on the shoulders of those who came before us ... agreed ?
I can’t wait for your videos to come out! I’m using my husband’s account. My name is Catherine. I specialize in pen and ink illustrations. Which is why I love your videos!
A pleasure. Each artist seems in many ways so much of place. Without knowing each artist You can match the artist country with the style. Something about them outside what is portrayed . Flasher so German, down to earth , Rabier charmingly French, Ragan the dynamic of America and Gilroy only in England. Each installment brings a new discovery. Thanks
Hello and thanks for the comment. There does seem to be an almost inevitable national character in a lot of illustration-and it isn't just the people and places either. I suppose we all come from different visual traditions, although I think that probably no longer applies in the global village.
Loved this instalment like all the ones you put out, Pete! Max Flashar's artwork of the fabrics and clothes is extraordinary! And Leslie Ragan's dynamic Art Deco inspired compositions are spectacular! I should make a printed private collection of all the artworks you put out, and flip through it once very often. Of course, it will be minus your 'warm as a fireside chat' voice over.
Hello and many thanks for your comment. I was particularly pleased with the illustrators gathered in this one. I regularly cover illustrators I'm actually not personally wild about but there were no contractua obligations in this one.
Hello again and that's two opinions I have no problem at all agreeing with. I feature quite a few illustrators I don't personally care for in the series but those two are among my all time greats.
Definitely one of the best series ever of any kind on youtube! As always outstanding work on research, you have opened my eyes on the world of illustration. Thank you for your dedication and work!
Thanks for making us aware of these fabulously talented illustrators. They may have been unsung, but your series is changing that and a jolly good thing too. Great work Pete.
Hi again, and thanks as ever for your interest. I must say I didn't hink an awful lot of Ragan's early poters but the later stuff blew me away. Gilroy I've loved since seeing his posters when I was a kid.
Brilliant, lots of preparation in these videos I'm sure so thanks to Mr Beard. As a child I loved to see the illustrations in my mum's Womans Own and similar mags . My favourite was Eric Earnshaw! And of course all the wonderful illustrations packed into the Radio Times in the '50's and 60's.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. I must confess I hadn't heard of Eric Earnshaw before so thanks a lot for the information. On the other hand that means he's a glaring omission in my British illustration in the 1950s video. Someone always slips under the radar, unfortunately.
Hello and thanks a usual. And yes I do use Pinterest on occasion, although it can be a frustrating experience when a lot of the images are named for the narcissistic uploader rather than the creator.
Opening of 66. Thanks for making me laugh aloud by seeing the happy horse being given a: FREE RIDE!! Both the horse and I are very happy sojourners! Merci! Gregg Oreo Long Beach Ca Etats Unis
Dipped into the abundance of interesting subjects at random and found gold, of course: Max Flashar, it would appear, also illustrated Anderson’s “Märchen für Kinder” 1894 and co-illustrated “Goldene Märchenpracht aus Tausend und eine Nacht”, Nietzschke, Stuttgart 1892. He also exhibited at the Münchner Glaspalast from 1909 (all this courtesy Wikipedia, German edition). He caught my interest because some of the images I recognised. Rabier is a source of delight, a smile inducing artist. Gilroy, yet another one who could entertain effortlessly, the humour behind his famous paintings somewhat altered, or the Wizard of Oz poster is wonderful. Thank you for smiles
Alright, Colin! Thanks loads for that - I always knew you were the most cultured of your year group... I hope you and your family are all well in these miserable times. Maybe I'll send out some e-mails to young and old as a substitute for a social life sometime soon...
Thanks again Pete! Really love Ragan's work. Hadn't heard of him before. I'd love to know how you are doing your research. Is it just all online or do you have boxes of 100 year old printed material around?
Hello and thanks as ever for your appreciation. A lot of the subjects do come from burrowing away into the internet, although probably as many seem to have lurked in the recesses of what's left of my memory, and a lifetime's love of illustration. But if I recall a particular illustrator I almost invariably pursue the information online. I actually don't have that many books on the subject although in my time I've had access to some decent university libraries.
I love your videos. I can’t wait for them to come out. I’m using my husbands account, my name is Catherine. I am a pen and ink artist, which is why I love what you cover in these videos thank you.
Hello and many thanks for watchng and your appreciation of the channel content. It means a lot to me. I'm just being nosey but you said you were a pen and ink illustrator -are you the Catherine LeBlanc who illustrates books such as How to outwit witches?
I just stumbled on your amazing series, and it's already answered a burning question of mine! Now I know the artist behind the big Guinness poster on the wall next to me is John Gilroy. It's one of his zoo-themed posters with an ostrich that's swallowed the keeper's full pint. The look Gilroy put on the ostrich's face is sublime! Edit: I had the artist's freakin' name wrong, duh!
@@petebeard DANG! I probably misremembered it myself. Let me doublecheck and correct my first comment. I hate injecting misinformation into our genepool! There, all fixed. My BAD. I was mixing him in with John Singleton Copley, for some harebrained reason! Thanks for the gentle tap with the ol' clue-by-four.
Thanks a lot for your comment. I try to be even-handed in my choices so I frequently feature some I actually don't much like, but this one was 4 out of 4.
@@petebeard All your episodes are profound and well researched, but some of them, like this one, send me off on a deep dive looking for pictures to put in my book of inspirations. Appreciations for adding to the collection Pete!
Hello and naturally enough I agree with you completely. Some of them I'm not personally wild about but I try to not let it show, and be as even-handed as I can.
It seems to me that eventually a permanent media collection of these might be commercially successful. But that can also sometimes spoil the enjoyment of making them. That enjoyment is palpable Pete. As a 'real' communicator they put to shame so many attempted communicators (influencers?) on RUclips both by the skill of their presentation and what you have to say. But I think I begin to repeat myself. There was a comment about this from someone in the Wirral a day or so ago.
Hello again and thanks again for your ongoing enthusiasm for the channel. It really is a pleasure when viewers can be bothered to let me know they appreciate what Im trying to do. And as for a permanent collection of some sort I thought I'd see if I was still breathing when I've finished the series and maybe convert it in part or even in whole to another format.
Спасибо, Pete! Would love to produce a similair series on Soviet illustrators, but after some 12 work hours in the publishing house asylum I'm too exhausted for that. Just call me lazy.
Hello again and thanks as usual. I wish I could find out more about Russian illustration, but other than the obvious figures, most of whom I've already covered or will be doing before long, there is remarkably little information available in Britain. I do know some contemporary great illustrators but of course it's the distant past that I concentrate on.
Hello and I see what you mean. I assume you're talking about the early posters. I must say he redeemed himself in my book with the later stuff. Some of those dynamic train posters...stunning.
It's funny how your life is tied to or connected to these artist and you are never aware of it. I rode the South Shore for several years of my life and remember seeing some of the art work of Ragan during that time. In the late 90's Guinness had a offer to get some of their older poster, and I got a couple done by Gilroy. Nice video.
Hello and many thanks for your comment and appreciation. I must admit I'd never heard of Ragan (and quite a few other American illustrators) before I started the series.
Have you done a video on George Cattermole he was my great grand father l don’t know much about him except he was a friend of Dickens and illustrated Some of Dickens books my grandfather was a jewellery and watch maker in the jewellery quarter in Birmingham
Hello and thanks for the comment and query. I had never heard of Mr. Cattermole previously so I was intrigued and looked him up. And I'm really pleased to now be aware of his excellent work. Unfortunately - and there's no reason you would be aware of this - I confine myself to those born between 1850 and 1910. So he falls ouside the earlier limit by quite a few years. Nevertheless I'm grateful for the knowledge of his work.
Hello Gregg and I must admit I was really pleased to be able to use that particular image for the title page. Especially as Gillroy is an all time favourite of mine, and he was a major influence on my own work. Pity I can't gather enough to make a solo video about him.
@@petebeard Sir. You humor us. You educate us. You make us better human beings: a bit like Jacqueline Kennedy's Camelot (with John Fitzgerald the First). We are indebted. Respectfully yours Gregg Oreo Long Beach CA etats unis
I like that opening image of the draft horse riding in the cart as the man happily pulls him along.
I agree. One of Gilroy's funniest images for Guinness.
Slainte...!!!
Flashar is a wonderful artist, first time i've heard of him. Rabier created a lot of good fun illustrations. First time 'heard of this illustrator . I loved the Leslie Ragan art, very impressive indeed and he was a WW 1 fighter pilot ! I also loved Gilroy. He was born in my part of the country. Wonderful artist/illustrator.
Fantastic part 66 from you !
Hello again and thanks for your positive response to the video. Usually in an unsung heroes there's at least one I'm actually not that keen on, but this was 4 out of 4 for me, and it seems quite a few viewers.
Flashar's b&w stuff is like Mad Magazine meets Punch. You have to love that. Rabier is delicious. I'm getting flashbacks with some of his stuff, to picture books i would have had in the late fifties. Ragan seems like classic poster art with just that lttle bit more 'art' - nice. Gilroy feels tremendously familiar, as I suppose is natural. He sort of makes me hanker after those old Oor Wullie and The Broons annuals that I gave away 55 years ago. I'm not absolutely sure why.
Many thanks once again for all your hard work and the delight that ensues therefrom.
HiPaul, and thanks as ever. Flashar was a real revelation to me. So believable and comic. I grew up in the 50s well aware of Gilroy's posters and they were at least partially responsible for my own determination to be an illustrator.
My Goodness...Max Flashar foreshadowed Normal Rockwell's style, and Leslie Ragan ability to make inanimate subjects exciting is quite amazing, of course John Gilroy's posters are a joy to look at. These videos are like a touchstone to sanity in our crazy times.
Hello and thanks a lot. I did think this was a particularly talented diverse bunch and I'm glad you agree.
Incredible! I live just a few blocks from the Cleveland Terminal Tower featured in Ragan’s work. Covid-19 finally and effectively dispatched with any life left in that beautiful building and the complex. Hope it reinvents itself again.
Thanks again for some amazing finds. Breathtaking and subtle.
Hello and your positive response to the video is very welcome.
Benjamin Rabier illustrations looks like he greatly influenced the Disney artists. Beautiful work. Thank you for your sharing these unsung illustrators and artists, that gave us a smile, and gave us beautiful visions.
Hello and thanks for the comment. You're right Rabier's drawings do look like they might have influenced not only early Disney but the Fleischer brothers too. Who knows? - but I think he was published in the USA.
Fantastic! I toured the Guinness brewery in the 1980's and was very enamoured of that style and often wondered who the artist was.
Hello and many thanks for your comment. Glad to be able to inform.
My MAN. Thanks for the upload, Pete, my day got much better.
Hello and as ever you are more than welcome.
*WOW!* what an exceptional presentation, felt like a kid again unwrapping presents.
Yes, that's a Christopher Walken ...
one second, two second ... pause, WOW!
Thanks a lot fir that. I thought it was one of the better instalments of the series.
@@petebeard
Then, they're all above average.
At least to my room temperature IQ.
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I discovered this fabulous channel this morning and I am in love with it! I am an Artist and I grew up reading lots of comic books. I love this! Thank you sooo much 👌🌟♥️
Hello and thanks a lot. It's always a pleasure to welcome a new viewer, and I hope you continue to find videos that you find interesting.
Hi again Mr. Beard.
I really enjoyed this instalment.
Max Flashar is almost a precursor to Norman Rockwell isn't he ?
Beautiful technique and talent.
Benjamin Rabier, the precursor of Hergé ...
Brilliantly researched, written and narrated.
Thank you so much for the time and effort you put into these presentations.
This was one of your best.
Hello and thanks as usual. Yes I too made the connection with Rockwell and his contemporaries, but I must say give me Flashar's watercolours any day. He made it look so easy, and what a pain that there's so little in colour.
@@petebeard I'll have to delve more into that aspect of his work.
Thanks for the feedback.
A thought as I mused over this installment.
We all stand on the shoulders of those who came before us ... agreed ?
If like Max Flashar, you'll really like JC Leyendecker, who was a profound influence on Norman Rockwell.
I can’t wait for your videos to come out! I’m using my husband’s account. My name is Catherine. I specialize in pen and ink illustrations. Which is why I love your videos!
I am grateful for your passion to express and educate about this subject, and so many moments I'm tempted to stop and screen capture.
Hello again and it's great to know that viewers such as yourself continue to appreciate the channel. Thanks.
A pleasure. Each artist seems in many ways so much of place. Without knowing each artist You can match the artist country with the style. Something about them outside what is portrayed . Flasher so German, down to earth , Rabier charmingly French, Ragan the dynamic of America and Gilroy only in England. Each installment brings a new discovery. Thanks
Hello and thanks for the comment. There does seem to be an almost inevitable national character in a lot of illustration-and it isn't just the people and places either. I suppose we all come from different visual traditions, although I think that probably no longer applies in the global village.
Makes my day 😁 to see a new episode of “Unsung...” vids when I get up & look to see if anything new & worthy 😉on YT- your releases are the hest‼️
This line up was my fav so far i think in the series. The whole series is fantastic but this particular line up caught my fancy. Thank you again sir.
Hello and I'm very glad you think so. Each of them brilliant in their own distinctive way.
Loved this instalment like all the ones you put out, Pete!
Max Flashar's artwork of the fabrics and clothes is extraordinary! And Leslie Ragan's dynamic Art Deco inspired compositions are spectacular!
I should make a printed private collection of all the artworks you put out, and flip through it once very often. Of course, it will be minus your 'warm as a fireside chat' voice over.
Hello and many thanks for your comment. I was particularly pleased with the illustrators gathered in this one. I regularly cover illustrators I'm actually not personally wild about but there were no contractua obligations in this one.
Thank you - LOVE Rabier's humor! And Gilroy's Guinness posters are simply enticing ~
Hello again and that's two opinions I have no problem at all agreeing with. I feature quite a few illustrators I don't personally care for in the series but those two are among my all time greats.
Definitely one of the best series ever of any kind on youtube! As always outstanding work on research, you have opened my eyes on the world of illustration. Thank you for your dedication and work!
Hello and that's a very nice thing to say. It's always rewarding to know the channel is appreciated.
Wholeheartedly agree!
Thanks for making us aware of these fabulously talented illustrators. They may have been unsung, but your series is changing that and a jolly good thing too. Great work Pete.
Hello again and thanks as ever. I must say I was very pleased with this little gathering of talents.
Another excellent video, thanks very much - and a new discovery for me in Max Flashar.
Hello and thanks. Flashar was a real revelation for me too. A pity it's almost all monochrome.
@@petebeard Yes, but lovely stuff, nonetheless!
Thanks, Pete! Really enjoyed the review of Ragan (in all his styles) and Gilroy, too.
Hi again, and thanks as ever for your interest. I must say I didn't hink an awful lot of Ragan's early poters but the later stuff blew me away. Gilroy I've loved since seeing his posters when I was a kid.
You are doing the art world a great service. Thank you.
And your kind comment is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Brilliant, lots of preparation in these videos I'm sure so thanks to Mr Beard. As a child I loved to see the illustrations in my mum's Womans Own and similar mags . My favourite was Eric Earnshaw! And of course all the wonderful illustrations packed into the Radio Times in the '50's and 60's.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. I must confess I hadn't heard of Eric Earnshaw before so thanks a lot for the information. On the other hand that means he's a glaring omission in my British illustration in the 1950s video. Someone always slips under the radar, unfortunately.
I don't know if you use Pinterest but there is a lot of illustration and art of every description on there .
Hello and thanks a usual. And yes I do use Pinterest on occasion, although it can be a frustrating experience when a lot of the images are named for the narcissistic uploader rather than the creator.
Opening of 66. Thanks for making me laugh aloud by seeing the happy horse being given a: FREE RIDE!! Both the horse and I are very happy sojourners! Merci! Gregg Oreo Long Beach Ca Etats Unis
A fine quartet Pete. Nice to see something other than beer posters from Gilroy. But you gotta pay the bills, I know. Was that young Prince Charles?
Hi again and yes it was indeed our jug-eared future king - and alleged paedophile and former prime minister Edward Heath at the end.
Lovely stuff, four very different artists but all of very high quality. Thank you.
Hello and many thanks for the comment. I must admit I thought it was a good one.
I have a couple of Gilroy's Guinness posters on my kitchen wall and love them (and the beer). Thanks for the information!
Hello and thanks for the comment. His posters and yes of course the product never fail to improve my mood.
Dipped into the abundance of interesting subjects at random and found gold, of course:
Max Flashar, it would appear, also illustrated Anderson’s “Märchen für Kinder” 1894 and co-illustrated “Goldene Märchenpracht aus Tausend und eine Nacht”, Nietzschke, Stuttgart 1892.
He also exhibited at the Münchner Glaspalast from 1909 (all this courtesy Wikipedia, German edition).
He caught my interest because some of the images I recognised.
Rabier is a source of delight, a smile inducing artist.
Gilroy, yet another one who could entertain effortlessly, the humour behind his famous paintings somewhat altered, or the Wizard of Oz poster is wonderful.
Thank you for smiles
Thanks again for your appreciation, and it's good to know you are finding the unsung heroes series absorbing and entertaining.
You have brightened up my afternoon on a gloomy day!
Always good to hear.
Now that takes me back. Great work, as ever, Pete.
Alright, Colin! Thanks loads for that - I always knew you were the most cultured of your year group... I hope you and your family are all well in these miserable times. Maybe I'll send out some e-mails to young and old as a substitute for a social life sometime soon...
Wonderful! I've seen reproductions of the Guinness ads on the wall of a couple of bars I used to deliver to!
Hello again, and a few American viewers have surprised me with their awareness of the Guinness posters. I thought it was an exclusively British thing.
@@petebeard Maybe, but the reproductions have been popular decorations, and I'm not surprised! The artwork is wonderful! :)
Thanks again Pete! Really love Ragan's work. Hadn't heard of him before. I'd love to know how you are doing your research. Is it just all online or do you have boxes of 100 year old printed material around?
Hello and thanks as ever for your appreciation. A lot of the subjects do come from burrowing away into the internet, although probably as many seem to have lurked in the recesses of what's left of my memory, and a lifetime's love of illustration. But if I recall a particular illustrator I almost invariably pursue the information online. I actually don't have that many books on the subject although in my time I've had access to some decent university libraries.
I love your videos. I can’t wait for them to come out. I’m using my husbands account, my name is Catherine. I am a pen and ink artist, which is why I love what you cover in these videos thank you.
Hello and many thanks for watchng and your appreciation of the channel content. It means a lot to me. I'm just being nosey but you said you were a pen and ink illustrator -are you the Catherine LeBlanc who illustrates books such as How to outwit witches?
How cool that would be...
Another wonderful experience! Thank you Sir.
Hello Carl and thanks as ever for your continuing appreciation.
Really liked Rabier’s illustrations,especially the ones for children & humorous ones as well…The Laughing Cow is still used on cheese packaging today
I just stumbled on your amazing series, and it's already answered a burning question of mine! Now I know the artist behind the big Guinness poster on the wall next to me is John Gilroy. It's one of his zoo-themed posters with an ostrich that's swallowed the keeper's full pint. The look Gilroy put on the ostrich's face is sublime!
Edit: I had the artist's freakin' name wrong, duh!
Hello again. I'm glad the mystery is solved but something's amiss here. It's James Gilroy you meant, not George Copley, whoever that may be.
Now I'm doing it... JOHN Gilroy is what I meant!
@@petebeard DANG! I probably misremembered it myself. Let me doublecheck and correct my first comment. I hate injecting misinformation into our genepool!
There, all fixed. My BAD. I was mixing him in with John Singleton Copley, for some harebrained reason! Thanks for the gentle tap with the ol' clue-by-four.
"...Your efforts are more than justified..." Gregg Oreo
Bravo. Really enjoyed this short synopsis.
Hello again - and thanks again.
Really accomplished artists in this episode. If told Rabier's work was from the 1980's, I would have believed it.
Thanks a lot for your comment. I try to be even-handed in my choices so I frequently feature some I actually don't much like, but this one was 4 out of 4.
@@petebeard All your episodes are profound and well researched, but some of them, like this one, send me off on a deep dive looking for pictures to put in my book of inspirations. Appreciations for adding to the collection Pete!
An interesting quartet of illustrators..thanks
Hello and I'm glad you enjoyed it. I try to keep them as varied as possible.
Amazing illustrators in your series.
Hello and naturally enough I agree with you completely. Some of them I'm not personally wild about but I try to not let it show, and be as even-handed as I can.
Mr beard you are an archaeologist your fan from the phillipines
Hello and thanks. Funnily enough I do think of myself as a sort of archaeologist, digging away to get to the good stuff.
Thanks again for the fusion of art and commentary, best wishes from the wirral...E
Hello and your continued interest is greatly valued. Cheers!
Always interesting and informative when your posts appear, keep up with the great work that you do ,sir.
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! Picture me chortling.
My thanks as ever - glad you enjoyed it and it took me a while to remember those lines from Jabberwocky.
It seems to me that eventually a permanent media collection of these might be commercially successful. But that can also sometimes spoil the enjoyment of making them. That enjoyment is palpable Pete. As a 'real' communicator they put to shame so many attempted communicators (influencers?) on RUclips both by the skill of their presentation and what you have to say. But I think I begin to repeat myself. There was a comment about this from someone in the Wirral a day or so ago.
Hello again and thanks again for your ongoing enthusiasm for the channel. It really is a pleasure when viewers can be bothered to let me know they appreciate what Im trying to do. And as for a permanent collection of some sort I thought I'd see if I was still breathing when I've finished the series and maybe convert it in part or even in whole to another format.
Спасибо, Pete! Would love to produce a similair series on Soviet illustrators, but after some 12 work hours in the publishing house asylum I'm too exhausted for that. Just call me lazy.
Hello again and thanks as usual. I wish I could find out more about Russian illustration, but other than the obvious figures, most of whom I've already covered or will be doing before long, there is remarkably little information available in Britain. I do know some contemporary great illustrators but of course it's the distant past that I concentrate on.
🤔 Leslie Ragan..Japanese wood cut influence..looks like to me. Your bios of these illustrators is very important. Thank you.
Hello and I see what you mean. I assume you're talking about the early posters. I must say he redeemed himself in my book with the later stuff. Some of those dynamic train posters...stunning.
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Thank you, and APSACA! (I need a new word!)
Hello and thanks. What a pity it hasn't gone viral. I suppose finding ever more obscure superlatives (hopefully) will be enough of a challenge...
It's funny how your life is tied to or connected to these artist and you are never aware of it. I rode the South Shore for several years of my life and remember seeing some of the art work of Ragan during that time. In the late 90's Guinness had a offer to get some of their older poster, and I got a couple done by Gilroy. Nice video.
Hello and many thanks for your comment and appreciation. I must admit I'd never heard of Ragan (and quite a few other American illustrators) before I started the series.
One of my favorite art deco posters is Ragan's New York Central Line at 08:42.
Hello and Ragan's work was new to me when I started making these videos. Those posters are rmarkable works of great beauty.
Hi Pete... another educational video, thanks.
Thanks as usual, John.
Have you done a video on George Cattermole he was my great grand father l don’t know much about him except he was a friend of Dickens and illustrated Some of Dickens books my grandfather was a jewellery and watch maker in the jewellery quarter in Birmingham
Hello and thanks for the comment and query. I had never heard of Mr. Cattermole previously so I was intrigued and looked him up. And I'm really pleased to now be aware of his excellent work. Unfortunately - and there's no reason you would be aware of this - I confine myself to those born between 1850 and 1910. So he falls ouside the earlier limit by quite a few years. Nevertheless I'm grateful for the knowledge of his work.
Thank you!
And the same to you as usual.
Great stuff.
Glad you enjoyed it
Dorothy L. Sayers was invioved in the Guinness Toukan campaign. She wasn't qn illustrator, of course--she was a copywriter.
Thanks for the insight.
@@petebeard She set one of her novels in an advertising agency.
this is great
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation and comment.
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Hi again and thanks again.
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Здравствуйте и спасибо за просмотр.
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Hello and tanks for your dedication to the cause. Its greatly appreciated.
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Hi and thanks a lot for that.
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"...Your efforts are more than justified..." Gregg Oreo
Hello Gregg and I must admit I was really pleased to be able to use that particular image for the title page. Especially as Gillroy is an all time favourite of mine, and he was a major influence on my own work. Pity I can't gather enough to make a solo video about him.
@@petebeard Sir. You humor us. You educate us. You make us better human beings: a bit like Jacqueline Kennedy's Camelot (with John Fitzgerald the First). We are indebted. Respectfully yours Gregg Oreo Long Beach CA etats unis