Pete, Your "Unsung Heroes of Illustration", is a wonderful and historically valuable series. l have enjoyed every episode. At 71 years, l have been involved with art and illustration for most of my life and yet am amazed at how much I've learned from you. Thank You. The illustrations for Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel's series on Joan of Arc belong to the Corcoran Collection and were on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, pre-pandemic. The originals are magnificent.
Hello and thanks for your appreciation for the channel. And despite my own lifetime's involvement and obsessive interest in illustration I was shocked by how many of these illustrators were completely unknown to me when I started the series. I just turned 70 and it seems we both lend weight to the idea that learning is a lifelong process. Wish I had seen those originals.
Hello again. As I indicated his was a far from happy life but like you said it did make me feel better to think of him ending his days in a decent place with a host of moggies for company.
Hello and thanks a lot. In my own case I had no idea just how many of these almost forgotten greats there were before I started making the videos. Better late than never I think.
Mr. Beard, I have been enjoying your exhaustively researched, incisive and poignant commentary and extremely engaging series for a few months. I have not commented before because I didn't feel that any plaudits of mine could equal the obvious love you put into this series. I just want you tell you that as a curator, you are the non plus ultra of a vanishing art, and that your presence during these times is a balm urgently needed. Thank you for the dignity, quiet humor and superb forethought you put into each of your offerings. All of us who love illustration are in your debt.
Hello to you and many thanks for your extremely flattering remarks about the channel. It really keeps me motivated when viewers respond positively to what I'm trying to do here. And there are still many more illustrators in the queue so I hope you'll continue to watch.
The same, enjoyable high quality that characterizes this series. One minor correction: Henry Clay Frick was not a politician, but an entrepreneur and businessman who managed much of Andrew Carnegie's steel operations.
Hello and thanks for the correction. Someone else pointed out the same mistake a while back and I never got round to correcting it in the description box.
The work of Louis Wain is a private favorite of mine, especially his Psychadelic Cats series. There's something so menacing about them that I'm drawn inexorably toward them.
Congratulations on 50 wonderfully documented episodes of 'Unsung heroes of Illustration', Mr. Beard. I've enjoyed every single one of them, and I have recommended these videos to my fellow students at the art academy. Here's to another 50!!! Merry Christmas and Happy Newyear!
Hello to you and welcome aboard. Thanks a lot for your praise and if it's any consolation I thought my knowledge of illustration was pretty good too. Turns out more than half of those I've featured I'd never heard of before. And if I may say so I really like your paintings.
Thanks Pete for bringing to light the work of all these amaxing illustrators. As an illustrator who will always be obscure l really appreciate thsee video's.
excellent work Pete, illustrations never cease to amaze me. Thanks for keeping them alive and sharing the many illustrators works and talents as on my own I never could have realized them. Actually that's not true because I've always felt a very deep connection, but I enjoy your site since it has helped to resurrect youths joy. Details were so important in the past, but today's frittering details set us into a quagmire of distraction bent on crippling our imaginations and limiting life's prospects. One can pause by studying an illustration and find in a well constructed drawing the deeper meaning of life's experiences. Thank you for sharing...
Many thanks for your comment, and I'm pleased your appreciation of all things illustrative pretty much matches my own. Making the series has been an eye-opener for me too.
@@petebeard I agree, I'm guessing the first half of next year isn't going to be much better. Your country is going through a rough time right now, I watch Sky News here in the US.... but not to fear, we're right behind you. Happy Holidays anyway, and stay safe.
Thanks for this, especially for the quick and useful overview of Louis Wain. He seems rather topical now - even an Amazon Prime biographic movie (well acted but not really watchable). I do remember some of his electric cats from my hippie days, but very nice to see his earlier work.
Hello and thanks a lot. I knew they had made a film but I had every intention of avoiding it at all costs. I'm glad you have saved me the trouble of winderng whether it was actually worth seeing. They very rarely are. The Danish Girl springs to mind...
I hope you know your videos are highly appreciated, especially for me being an illustrator myself. This is so informative and entertaining, I wish they were longer lol.
Hello and thanks a lot. I'm glad you find the channel useful. I'm a great believer in the idea that the more you know about other illustrators the better it is for your own development. Regarding length I'm sorry to say not many would agree with you. Average watch time is just over 7 minutes.
What an incredible series, you've pushed my knowledge and exposure of incredible illustrators that i would've definitely never have heard about. They're all incredible artist in their own rights and deserve all the recognition. Thank you Pete!!
Hello and many thanks for your extremely flattering parallel. If I succeed in drawing more attention to these neglected illustrators I'll be happy with that.
@@petebeard Thanks is all to you, sir. Your 62 plus thousand subscribers indicates you are finding success in your quest. We're months apart in age. I appreciate your on-going efforts in that which has meant so much to your life. Best wishes from one of the colonies in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
8:31. If you don't mind me saying Henry Clay Frick was more of an entrepreneur and industrialist as a partner to Andrew Carnegie. . He never held any public office as a politician. Also I think it's worth mentioning Frick was a great art collector owning many works the likes of Rembrandt, Titian, Whistler and Fragonard just to name a few. His huge NYC 5th mansion has been turned into the Frick Collection art museum where the aforementioned artists works ( and many other masterpieces) are on public view. I think this is worth mentioning since his assassination conspiracy involved an accomplished illustrator.
Hello and thanks for pointing that out. The source I used referred to him as a politician but obviously this was inaccurate. The rest of the info is interesting but not enough to cram into a 3 minute overview of someone else entirely.
Just found this great series! Thanks so much for making these! Not sure if you have covered him, but Norman Lindsay was an Australian illustrator/artist that could be of interest to you. The whole Lindsay family were very tallented
Wain's later work certainly is prescient of the psychedelia of the later '60's and onward. I remember as a kid looking through a TimeLife book on the mind and in the section on mental illness seeing some of those wild cat illustrations, disturbing to a little kid! Those and the last one featured reminds strongly of Jim Woodring, a contemporary artist who has so far dealt with a toxic family upbringing and mental challenges (though I know he wouldn't be in your scope of videos I highly recommend him)..
Hello and thanks for your comment. And even more thanks for alerting me to the genius of Jim Woodring. I wasn't aware of him at all and now I'm ordering some of his books from Amazon. Amazing distinctive and memorable images.
Oh, my gosh! I'd seen a lot of Stein's old pulp covers (mostly online) but I had no idea of his real backstory! I'd spent part of the evening watching some of these videos I hadn't seen yet and Presto! A new one pops up! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you, Pete!
Hi again. The full story of his early life is much more outrageous than my limited account. I try to stay focussed on the work and play down more sensationalist aspects. Hope everybody's 2021 is better than what we've just had.
Looks like there are some Pete Beard fans (or at least Louis Wain ones) in the film industry - Cumberbatch is set to play him in The Electrical Life of Louis Wain :-)
I can't tell you how wowed I am by this series. Hard to imagine all the research it took, and it is all so fresh! I haven't seen nearly all of them yet-- sometimes I have to stop in the middle of them to go do watercolors, I'm so inspired. I can't even suggest names, because I assume you already found them, and I have yet to get to them on your series. This has become my art history university for the pandemic. ... Ok... so a name suggestion though it may be that I haven't found yours yet... do you have one for Clerice Freres? Poster artist...
Hello and thanks a lot for your very positive response to the channel. And possibly an even bigger thanks for the Clerice Freres suggestion. I'd never come across them before but they are now added to the ever-lengthening list of worthy subjects.
Olá e muito obrigado por sua aproximação. Eu não posso dizer se você quer dizer legendas no meu canal ou de outra pessoa, mas no meu você pode selecionar português nas configurações.
Hello and thanks for your recent comments. Your dedication to the cause is very welcome. Now if I could just get every viewer to watch multiple times...
Hello and it seems many of the anime and manga artists were influenced by western fantasy and styling more than Japanese. And I'm sorry Peake's story is so depressing. A tragic end to a great career.
Hmm it does line up since miyazaki and takahata and all their contemporaries from 70's and 80's often adapt western children literature (which is the popular thing at that time i guess). Also interesting is the first and second generation anime (im counting tezuka works as the first mainstream generation) definitely took the western comic style. Lots of Tezuka's characters themselves looks like straight up coming from bugville and silly symphony...
Hello again, and yes for my sins I was an illustrator for just over 40 years. I've been retired for about 6 years now. I'm nobody's idea of a hero but I'm definitely unsung. If you're interested there's a video on the channel (low resolution unfortunately) titled Pete Beard Portfolio featuring some of my better moments.
Pete, Your "Unsung Heroes of Illustration", is a wonderful and historically valuable series. l have enjoyed every episode. At 71 years, l have been involved with art and illustration for most of my life and yet am amazed at how much I've learned from you. Thank You. The illustrations for Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel's series on Joan of Arc belong to the Corcoran Collection and were on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, pre-pandemic. The originals are magnificent.
Hello and thanks for your appreciation for the channel. And despite my own lifetime's involvement and obsessive interest in illustration I was shocked by how many of these illustrators were completely unknown to me when I started the series. I just turned 70 and it seems we both lend weight to the idea that learning is a lifelong process. Wish I had seen those originals.
THX *Pete Beard* I found #50 here🐈😻 I'm glad *Louis Wain* had a garden & cats ...so glad he did
Hello again. As I indicated his was a far from happy life but like you said it did make me feel better to think of him ending his days in a decent place with a host of moggies for company.
My husband and I love your videos. Wish we had been able to watch this when we were young artists trying to break into our careers. Thank you!
Hello and thanks a lot. In my own case I had no idea just how many of these almost forgotten greats there were before I started making the videos. Better late than never I think.
Mr. Beard,
I have been enjoying your exhaustively researched, incisive and poignant commentary and extremely engaging series for a few months. I have not commented before because I didn't feel that any plaudits of mine could equal the obvious love you put into this series. I just want you tell you that as a curator, you are the non plus ultra of a vanishing art, and that your presence during these times is a balm urgently needed. Thank you for the dignity, quiet humor and superb forethought you put into each of your offerings. All of us who love illustration are in your debt.
Hello to you and many thanks for your extremely flattering remarks about the channel. It really keeps me motivated when viewers respond positively to what I'm trying to do here. And there are still many more illustrators in the queue so I hope you'll continue to watch.
@@petebeard You have a viewer for life sir! Many thanks again for taking us on this expedition of discovery, and continued success!!
The same, enjoyable high quality that characterizes this series. One minor correction: Henry Clay Frick was not a politician, but an entrepreneur and businessman who managed much of Andrew Carnegie's steel operations.
Hello and thanks for the correction. Someone else pointed out the same mistake a while back and I never got round to correcting it in the description box.
The work of Louis Wain is a private favorite of mine, especially his Psychadelic Cats series. There's something so menacing about them that I'm drawn inexorably toward them.
You're right - once seen they are hard to forget. Made all the more poignant due to his mental state and circumstances.
I'm ALWAYS charmed by your charming productions.. merci.. Happy autumn, 2023! Respectfully yours Gregg Oreo Long Beach CA etats unis
Hi Gregg and thanks as ever for your ongoing support. I hope you are doing well.
Congratulations on 50 wonderfully documented episodes of 'Unsung heroes of Illustration', Mr. Beard. I've enjoyed every single one of them, and I have recommended these videos to my fellow students at the art academy. Here's to another 50!!!
Merry Christmas and Happy Newyear!
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation and dedication to the cause. And I hope you manage a decent festive season despite the current plague.
Great series, great content, great format, great research, great voice thank you...
I thought I knew my illustrators, Ha!
Hello to you and welcome aboard. Thanks a lot for your praise and if it's any consolation I thought my knowledge of illustration was pretty good too. Turns out more than half of those I've featured I'd never heard of before. And if I may say so I really like your paintings.
@@petebeard Thanks for replying, cheers for the compliment, I'll communicate with you latter if that's OK...
Congratulations on 50 magnificent videos. I’ve learned so much, and been inspired so often.
Hello to you and thanks a lot for your positive response to the channel. It's good to know viewers get something out of it.
Always enjoyed your installments of the unsung illustrators.. great appreciated 🙏 👍.
Many thannks for your favourble response. I'll be returning to a ne series of unsungs in a few months.
wonderfully talented people. empathetic,cheerfull. sane.
Hello again and thanks again for your comments.Not all illustrators are miserable - at least not in their work.
I just found your channel. It’s fantastic. Everything I love about illustration.
Hello and welcome to the channel. I hope you continue to enjoy it. There are many more videos to come.
Always such a pleasure to find a new posting. Number 50 and the quality and excellence continues unabated. All the very best in the New Year.
Hi and thanks a lot. And hopefully 2021 will be a bit brighter.
This series deserves an award...seriously!
Hi and thanks for that extremely flattering remark. It got me wondering what the award would be...maybe 'Best Least Watched Video Series on RUclips'
Hooray, Christmas has come early, thanks Pete.
Hi and thanks as ever. And I hope you manage a decent Xmas despite the rampant plague.
Thanks Pete for bringing to light the work of all these amaxing illustrators. As an illustrator who will always be obscure l really appreciate thsee video's.
Hello and thanks a lot for the comment. My own career passed without conspicuous success but at least I made a living and mostly enjoyed myself.
I discovered your channel the other day... ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL! Thank you.
Hello and I'm very pleased our worlds have collided. I hope you'll continue to find more that's of interest.
Look forward to these so much. Thank you!
And thanks to you for watching.
Such a wonderful cultural resource.Thankyou.
Hello and thanks a lot to you for your appreciation of the channel. Such comments keep me motivated to create more.
excellent work Pete, illustrations never cease to amaze me. Thanks for keeping them alive and sharing the many illustrators works and talents as on my own I never could have realized them. Actually that's not true because I've always felt a very deep connection, but I enjoy your site since it has helped to resurrect youths joy. Details were so important in the past, but today's frittering details set us into a quagmire of distraction bent on crippling our imaginations and limiting life's prospects. One can pause by studying an illustration and find in a well constructed drawing the deeper meaning of life's experiences. Thank you for sharing...
Many thanks for your comment, and I'm pleased your appreciation of all things illustrative pretty much matches my own. Making the series has been an eye-opener for me too.
Im so glad to have YT link me to your reviews! I love your humor. Mind altering worlds!!!
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. It's great to be appreciated.
Most enlightening…really enjoying your histories of the lesser known illustrators..thank you
Hello again and comments such as yours convince me I'm not wasting my time making the videos. These illustrators deserve better recognition.
Thank you so very much for this series. It is fabulous, and I so needed to see this right now.
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. It's appreciated.
Thanks for another great episode!
Hello and you're welcome as ever. Hopefully 2021 will be an improvement on 2020.
Cool - especially the cats!! Thank you.
Hi and thanks as usual.
Thanks so much for your work on discussing these artists! Best regards from Manila
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. It really pleases me to hear from people in faraway places who like the channel.
Thanks for doing these.
Hello again and thanks for your ongoing support.
I love your channel! Thank you so much!
Hello and many thanks for your recent enthusiastic comments about the channel. It's always a pleasure to hear from appreciative viewers.
Thank you so much for these absolutely wonderful reviews. You deserve, and I have no doubt, will get a far, far wider audience. A real treasure.
Hello to you and thanks a lot for your positive response to the channel. Appreciation for the work keeps me motivated.
Can't imagine illustration not being artistic. A non artistic could not do illustration.
Hi Pete.... I enjoyed them all in this video.... though my cat was partial to Wain's work! Happy Holidays to you and yours.
Hello John. Glad you enjoyed it and let's hope next year is better than this one. Can't say I'm oprimistic though...
@@petebeard I agree, I'm guessing the first half of next year isn't going to be much better. Your country is going through a rough time right now, I watch Sky News here in the US.... but not to fear, we're right behind you. Happy Holidays anyway, and stay safe.
Thanks for this, especially for the quick and useful overview of Louis Wain. He seems rather topical now - even an Amazon Prime biographic movie (well acted but not really watchable). I do remember some of his electric cats from my hippie days, but very nice to see his earlier work.
Hello and thanks a lot. I knew they had made a film but I had every intention of avoiding it at all costs. I'm glad you have saved me the trouble of winderng whether it was actually worth seeing. They very rarely are. The Danish Girl springs to mind...
Thank you for all your work!
Hello and my thanks in return for your appreciation.
You are legend Pete
Hello and that's a very nice thing to say. Happy 2021.
I hope you know your videos are highly appreciated, especially for me being an illustrator myself. This is so informative and entertaining, I wish they were longer lol.
Hello and thanks a lot. I'm glad you find the channel useful. I'm a great believer in the idea that the more you know about other illustrators the better it is for your own development. Regarding length I'm sorry to say not many would agree with you. Average watch time is just over 7 minutes.
@@petebeard it's a pleasure 🤗.
Love your so well researched series.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciative comment.
Another superb episode.
And again.. thanks!
What an incredible series, you've pushed my knowledge and exposure of incredible illustrators that i would've definitely never have heard about. They're all incredible artist in their own rights and deserve all the recognition.
Thank you Pete!!
Hello and thanks a lot. It's always good to know viewers are getting something from the channel.
Excellent series, Pete. !!
Hi and thanks a lot. Best wishes for the coming year.
your deadpan humor/ irony is great
Mr. Beard, you’re the Vasari of the realm of illustrators.
Hello and many thanks for your extremely flattering parallel. If I succeed in drawing more attention to these neglected illustrators I'll be happy with that.
@@petebeard Thanks is all to you, sir. Your 62 plus thousand subscribers indicates you are finding success in your quest.
We're months apart in age. I appreciate your on-going efforts in that which has meant so much to your life. Best wishes from one of the colonies in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Congratulations on this landmark episode! I'm looking forward to learning about more unsung heroes of illustration in 2021.
Hello and thanks for sticking with the channel More on the way.
8:31. If you don't mind me saying Henry Clay Frick was more of an entrepreneur and industrialist as a partner to Andrew Carnegie. . He never held any public office as a politician. Also I think it's worth mentioning Frick was a great art collector owning many works the likes of Rembrandt, Titian, Whistler and Fragonard just to name a few. His huge NYC 5th mansion has been turned into the Frick Collection art museum where the aforementioned artists works ( and many other masterpieces) are on public view. I think this is worth mentioning since his assassination conspiracy involved an accomplished illustrator.
Hello and thanks for pointing that out. The source I used referred to him as a politician but obviously this was inaccurate. The rest of the info is interesting but not enough to cram into a 3 minute overview of someone else entirely.
Oh my, I just discovered your channel and started watching from part 1! So happy to have 50 plus more to go :-). Happy Holidays indeed.
muchas gracias
Hello and I only just found your comment. RUclips drive me mad. But thanks to you and I hope we all have a better year in 2021.
Thank you for another fascinating episode and congratulations on reaching your 50th film in this series! Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Hello Mark and thanks for your comment. And the same to you regarding festivities (such as they are in lockdown)
Thank you for these, you've helped me discover so many great Artists I otherwise wouldn't have. Late Merry Christmas and Happy New Years.
Hello and season's greetings to you too. I hope you'll continue to watch the channel.
Just found this great series! Thanks so much for making these! Not sure if you have covered him, but Norman Lindsay was an Australian illustrator/artist that could be of interest to you. The whole Lindsay family were very tallented
Hello and welcome to the channel. Lindsay has featured in unsung heroes of illustration 28 so I hope you think I've done the great man justice.
@@petebeard thanks so much! I will have a look asap!
Wain's later work certainly is prescient of the psychedelia of the later '60's and onward. I remember as a kid looking through a TimeLife book on the mind and in the section on mental illness seeing some of those wild cat illustrations, disturbing to a little kid! Those and the last one featured reminds strongly of Jim Woodring, a contemporary artist who has so far dealt with a toxic family upbringing and mental challenges (though I know he wouldn't be in your scope of videos I highly recommend him)..
Hello and thanks for your comment. And even more thanks for alerting me to the genius of Jim Woodring. I wasn't aware of him at all and now I'm ordering some of his books from Amazon. Amazing distinctive and memorable images.
@@petebeard there are a number of RUclips videos, interviews and lectures by him. I'm amazed he survived his childhood!
Merci. Mir gären Illustratiounen, a besonnesch Kannerbicher.
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Louis Wein deserved better, poor man.
A sad story indeed.
Oh, my gosh! I'd seen a lot of Stein's old pulp covers (mostly online) but I had no idea of his real backstory! I'd spent part of the evening watching some of these videos I hadn't seen yet and Presto! A new one pops up! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you, Pete!
Hi again. The full story of his early life is much more outrageous than my limited account. I try to stay focussed on the work and play down more sensationalist aspects. Hope everybody's 2021 is better than what we've just had.
This is a terrific series.
Hello again and I'm glad you think so.
Thank you!
Hi again and glad you liked it.
Very interesting 🙏🏼
Thanks and I'm glad you found it rewarding.
Thank You Mr Beard
Hello and thanks very much. Happy 2021.
Looks like there are some Pete Beard fans (or at least Louis Wain ones) in the film industry - Cumberbatch is set to play him in The Electrical Life of Louis Wain :-)
Hello and I didn't know that. I hope its not some massive Hollywood nonsense. Understated would be good.
Loved it
Hello and that makes me very happy.
Don't remember if you did anything on the U.S. children's illustrator Louis Slobodkin: (11) Too Many Mittens By Florence and Louis Slobodkin - RUclips
I can't tell you how wowed I am by this series. Hard to imagine all the research it took, and it is all so fresh! I haven't seen nearly all of them yet-- sometimes I have to stop in the middle of them to go do watercolors, I'm so inspired. I can't even suggest names, because I assume you already found them, and I have yet to get to them on your series. This has become my art history university for the pandemic. ... Ok... so a name suggestion though it may be that I haven't found yours yet... do you have one for Clerice Freres? Poster artist...
Hello and thanks a lot for your very positive response to the channel. And possibly an even bigger thanks for the Clerice Freres suggestion. I'd never come across them before but they are now added to the ever-lengthening list of worthy subjects.
Esse canal é incrível, seria perfeito se tivessem mais vídeos com legendas em português
Olá e muito obrigado por sua aproximação. Eu não posso dizer se você quer dizer legendas no meu canal ou de outra pessoa, mas no meu você pode selecionar português nas configurações.
I come faster than the notification
Hello and I'm glad you continue to watch.
Watched it 3 times! 😃
Hello and thanks for your recent comments. Your dedication to the cause is very welcome. Now if I could just get every viewer to watch multiple times...
@@petebeard 😍
@@petebeard because of your video, I ordered the book ‘Die Wiesenzeitung’ on Abe Books ($20).
Henry Clay Frick was a businessman, not a politician.
My apologies. I think the source I used only mentioned his antipathy for unions and I jumped to the wrong conclusion.
9:57 Joan Crawford 14:29 Norma Shearer.
You should do Jean Jacques Loup
Born too late, I'm afraid. The cut off DOB for the series is 1910. Sorry.
The character style remind me of early ghibli style
Hello and it seems many of the anime and manga artists were influenced by western fantasy and styling more than Japanese. And I'm sorry Peake's story is so depressing. A tragic end to a great career.
Hmm it does line up since miyazaki and takahata and all their contemporaries from 70's and 80's often adapt western children literature (which is the popular thing at that time i guess). Also interesting is the first and second generation anime (im counting tezuka works as the first mainstream generation) definitely took the western comic style. Lots of Tezuka's characters themselves looks like straight up coming from bugville and silly symphony...
Pete, are you an illustrator too?
Hello again, and yes for my sins I was an illustrator for just over 40 years. I've been retired for about 6 years now. I'm nobody's idea of a hero but I'm definitely unsung. If you're interested there's a video on the channel (low resolution unfortunately) titled Pete Beard Portfolio featuring some of my better moments.
Can we get a video on 'Pete Beard the unsung hero'? I'm not joking. I view your videos as I do my daily ink and wash adventures. :)