Just beneath your rich offering of historical biographical sketches, I always get the vague, nostalgic sense that I'm a young boy listening to a reading of Peter Rabbit...
Hello and thanks for your appreciation of the videos. If I'd known I had an apparently soothing voice I'd have attempted a career doing talking books. Too late now though...
What a monumental and wholly worthwhile undertaking! In the '90s, after finding 1938 FORTUNEs in a recycling dumpster, I began a nightly circuit of local recyc spots, climbing into dumpsters to dig for old pulp. In 10 years, I amassed volumes of advertising illustrations from the '20s to the '80s. Now I can find out who created these wonderful works! Thanks so much.
Hello and I'm glad you found the channel. I hope you continue to find it of interest. Just to lure you in check out unsung heroes 62 for Ernest Hamlin Baker's wonderful Fortune covers.
This collection of brief visual essays on illustrators and their art is one of the most wonderful presentations on TH-cam - as said, a picture is worth a thousand words, and illustrators speak through the drawings they provide to illuminate the ideas and words of the authors - your bringing to light so many artists that have affected my own mental perceptions of written words and ideas is greatly appreciated
On the days when I feel unwell or just depressed, I can rely on Pete to cheer me up! Pagani is definitely my hero of this group - very humorous and diverse.
It's a bit late perhaps but your encyclopedic video series so well presented are re-educating me after more years of neglect than I care to tell. It is all so positive and perceptive. And quiet!!
Hello again, and i my humble opinion it's never too late to learn. I don't know whether I've already said this (short - term memory is not what it used to be)but I knew less than half these illustrators before I started this series. And I'm really glad I found most of them. Some I can do without.
Pete, thank you so much for the effort you're putting in making these videos. They are great!!! I'm an illustrator and your's is definetely my new favourite youtube chanel. I will recommend to everybody interested. :)
I'm late to this elegantly crafted docuseries but I would like to express my gratitude and appreciation for all that you do - this and your illustrations. You are one of the most original voices and channels on TH-cam. Thank you sir!
Hello and welcome to the channel. And if you are going to use flattering expressions such as 'elegantly crafted' you can be as late as you like. Admittedly I've been uploading for a while now but viewing figures and subscriptions continue to rise - if not as much as I'd like - so I'm actually pretty pleased with the channel's imcreasing popularity.
I've only JUST discovered this wonderful series. More than a 100 to enjoy? I am feeling like the proverbial pig in sh**! Thank you, good sir!!! I fully intend to enjoy every one of these with an appropriate whiskey or beer and revel in the wonderful history of illustration.
Hello and welcome to the channel. I hope you continue to find content that's of interest and if you haven't already I hope you will subscribe and maybe share with others.
Having up to now randomly gone through the unsung, I decided to look for the very first one - and although it was posted some years ago, I found it to be just as beautifully put together and presented as the others that were to follow. What an incredible output, what an intimidating amount of work and many, many hours of research. The first quartet is extraordinary, and yet not overshadowing the many others you presented. Back to back I watched number one with number 100 (which I had already seen), so here is a small poetic observation: With 100 episodes done Pete Beard sighed: “That was quite a run. But there are plenty more. And it isn’t a bore. The next few hundred will be quite fun.”
@@petebeard well they are really terrific. I share them with all my artist friends and family. They are especially good when played on a wall size hi-def tv. I only wish I wasn’t a starving artist so I could share more than my gratitude and admiration. Well done.
@@theKluck Hello again and I'm more than happy with gratitude and admiration. I was never in this for financial reward, and the dreadful ads pay my monthly wine bill.
Here we go again... another outstanding video introducing me to even more wonderful illustrators that I'd never heard of before, and often who's work I recognized seeing before this program. I just love Zim's work, with his whimsical illustrations and his fun caricatures. It's no wonder people sought out his talent to have their stories penned by him! His ability to tell a story with his drawings, and add a twisted element to add that extra flair is just incredible! It makes you closely study everything in the illustration, for fear of missing some minute hilarious detail! and Harry Roundtree's animals are outstanding! Your narration hits it right on the head in where he could draw an animal with seemingly human gestures, but still maintain the animal's natural body forms. That just blows me away! I'd bet that these were fun guys to have a conversation with. I'm sure they had crazy perspectives on just about any subject. OK Mr Beard, you've done it again. Great job with this video!
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation and consideration of the work of these illustrators. Both Zim and Rountree are just my kind of humorous illustrators and I'm glad you also like their work. I'm now re-visiting some of these early unsung heroes at greater length, just like I have with Pogany, and if I can find enough additional material both of them would be ideal candidates.
I only recently discovered your wonderful and extensive series of videos. They are a joy to watch and your narrations are perfect. Thank you for putting a spotlight on this fascinating area of Art!
Hello and that;s great to hear. I should warn you that some (actually more than some) of the early ones suffer from poor sound balance. I'm pretty deaf and it took me a while to get it done better. If you encounter one, try turning the sound down and the subtitles on.
I've been a lifelong painter, only rarely an illustrator in my younger years, but have always had the highest regards for good craftsmen of whatever stripe. Not even 4 minutes into your 1st installment about illustrators and anticipate that I will be grateful for them all.
Gotta binge watch this series - 1st found #9 & now I am hooked... as an amateur illustrator & cartoonist and long time fan & follower of this genres ... I am in yt heaven thank you
As expected, and not entirely surprising your source reading is impeccable, thanks again for sharing your thoughts with all of us....after 40 years in the NHS it is brilliant to discover this wonderful world of art ,thank you sir....E
I had Arthur Szyk’s Hans Christian Andersen tales as a child in the 70’s. It made a huge impression on me and I never forgot it. It also helped me form the artistic sensibility I have to this day. Thank you for this series. You’re highlighting a wonderful group of artists that should not be forgotten.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciative comment. As with a few others I featured early on in this series I'm currently working on a video devoted just to Szyk's work, as I now realise I didn't really do him justice with a 3 minute slot. I have no idea when it will be finished and uploaded but hopefully early in the new year.
Hello and thanks a lot. I've wondered about re-formatting either as discs or e-books but I want to get to part 100 before considering options. At that point I'm taking a break from this partcular series and concentrating on solo topics and that might make the perfect opportunity. Never say never...
Sometimes TH-cam brings a treasure to you, this is taking me back to childhood. I loved illustrated books and would paw over them for hours, loved Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, an Australian tale, thank you so much
Hello and thanks a lot for your positive response. I assume you are from Australia and if so you may be familiar with Norman Lindsay, who created The Magic Pudding alongside his more adult material. He is featured in unsung heroes of illustration 28.
I should thank you in advance for every video of this series is crafted from your love of these artists some.of them Im fortunate to encounter thanks to you, sir!🇦🇷
As someone slowly discovering my love illustration and art: thank you, thank you, thank you! This series feels like you are showing me the world a little, and it´s wonderful :)
Hello and I'm very pleased you found the channel. There isnt a whole lot about art that hangs in galleries but there's plenty of illustration of all kinds from all over the planet which I hope will interest and inspire you.
Thank you, Pete Beard - #1! It's fun to 'meet' you 4 years back - to notice how you began and have stayed the same/changed your style - your work is such a Good Deed, not only for the illustrators you showcase but also for all of us, your viewers - you have the gift of making people and their histories come alive for us - thank you very much. Happy New Year, may 2022 be wonderful!
Hi and thanks a lot. I must admit once I've made the videos I rarely if ever go back to them later. If memory serves I think many were well intentioned but by comparison clumsily put together and - knowing me - excessively opinionated. Nevertheless they are what they are and I keep looking in a determinedly forward direction. Which leads me nicely round to saying a very happy new year to you too.
Fascinating video presentation, I learned a lot. Beautiful images, stunning illustrations. Thank you. Your channel fills an educational gap about visual artistry. I hope your films get shown in colleges and museums. Brilliant work.
This is what TH-cam does best! A marvellous clear "authored" piece. Any broadcast TV programme on the subject would be over-produced, limited by time, and suffer the interference of executives. I came here from your excellent Heath Robinson video, and was slightly awe-struck when I saw there were over 40 of these. It's disconcerting to realize that for every illustrator whose work you know, there are dozens of really good ones whose work you don't. It's much the same for actors. Thank you --- I have many hours of fascinating viewing ahead.
Hello to you and many thanks for your favourable response to my videos. There seems to be no end to the number of illustrators who are an endangered species so I hope you keep watching for as long as I can continue to shed a bit of light on them.
@@petebeard One thing that would be much appreciated --- an index of which artists are featured in each of these videos. In fact, you are so prolific, I suspect we would all like to have a web site (needing frequent updating) that functions as a contents list and index for all your videos. Perhaps this already exists, and I have not found it. I still have a couple of books from childhood (and what a huge impact illustrations can have at that age): one is called "Humors of History" with gloriously funny illustrations by Arthur Moreland. The other is a book of Stanley Holloway monologues (The Lion & Albert etc) illustrated by John Hassall. I am also a big fan of humourous cartoons and I imagine that the line between them and illustrations must sometimes be hard to define, and be the cause of much discussion. Is Pont a great cartoonist but a poor illustrator? What about H.M. Bateman and Gerard Hoffnung?
Hello again and many thanks for your appreciation of the channel content gladdens my old heart. And if I had known when I started out making these videos just how much they would consume my energies and time I would have either (a) not taken on the challenge and lived the life of an elderly dissolute, or (b) done things somewhat differently, including some form of index for what I didn't realise was going to be a rather long list of heroes.
I chanced upon this video today and became instantly hooked. I've long been a fan of the golden age of illustration so these videos of yours are right up my street. Thank you!
Oh I had that Hans Christian Anderson book by Szyk as a child! I think it was the seed of my love for Medieval art - Thank You - the book is long gone and I never would have figured it out. Thank You so much for making these videos. I'm working to become an illustrator myself now that I'm old - it's the only thing I want to do - I'm glad I found your videos - thank you.
Hello Jane and thanks a lot for your favourable comments. Arthur Szyk was a real revelation to me when I started making the series. If only I'd been able to paint like that. And I wish you well in your bid to become an illustrator. The good news is there's loads of instructional stuff about all aspects of illustration on the web. I hope you continue to watch and be inspired.
Thanks for your comment - it means a lot to me. I'm currently working on the fourth and last in the series so watch this space - and please share the link
Fascinating! I'm enjoying your work very very much. I so love illustration and understanding it's history. Thank you so much for your work. Your narration and ability to tell the story is so engaging. Have a great day Peter. I've subscribed and I will see everything you write with so much pleasure.
HELLO and THANK YOU PETE!!!!!! We are ( hubby and I ) ENTHRALLED with these beautiful videos!! As lovers of illustration,,its wonderful and high time some special person put out informative and visual examples of these Unsung Heroes...! W@W!!! Sad to hear how some of these amazing artists passed way too early,or suffered some crappy hardships. If I had a time machine,I would go back and observe them all at work and attempt to learn techniques.... Your Gems and Treasures here are works of art also! We sure hope you make more....we will watch these over and over!! Happiness Hugs,and God Bless You!😘👼- Mindi and Bob from Iowa,USA
Well it's always a pleasure to know people like the videos I'm making, but I'm overwhelmed by the level of your enthusiasm. I still have an astonishingly large list of neglected illustrators to keep me busy in my retirement and others on related topics in the pipeline so watch this space. Thanks a lot for your support Pete
Pete, I love your videos! Somehow one showed up on my youtube feed and I am SO glad to have found your channel. I have enjoyed illustration especially in children's books from a very early age and it's a delight to see these artworks again. I will spend many hours enjoying the dozens of videos you have produced. Thank you!
Hello and I'm pleased our orbits have collided, and I hope you continue to find material of interest on the channel. You may have already seen it but there is a video specifically about children's illustration titled Once Upon a Time.
Wow Pete, I came across your videos purely by accident and I'm so glad I did!! This is so fascinating and so professionally done, well done you!!! It's hard to believe these talented artists have long since been forgotten and yet what great work they produced. Thankyou for opening this fascinating (yet hidden) world of these marvellous artists and their amazing works. These should be put out on a dvd series, the time and effort you take clearly shows and the music is really good too, I especially love that piece of music that kicks in at 6:24 on this particular video, a great job Pete, and I shall definitely be looking up some these talented artists.
Hi and many thanks for your very enthusiastic response - I hope you'll continue with the series and the others I've made. And a particular thanks about the tune. I (optimistically) thought I would compose and write for the series but that was when I thought I might only be making a handful and I've had to download generic tracks because there just wasn't time to do my own as well. But I've always regretted it.
@@petebeard You're very welcome Pete, it seems to me that you're a very talented guy, I will definitely watch more of your videos for sure. Take care Pete and thankyou for taking the time to reply, it means a lot. All the best.
Hi and thanks very much for your comment. I looked at my 'to do' list and it's longer than the ones I've done to date so unless I get hit by a bus or similar there's no chance I'll stop. Thanks again
Pete, I just discovered your channel. What a treasure! Truly great stuff! The research effort is obvious and this is a truly terrific resource for artists! Thank you!
Thank you for bringing these unsung illustrators to our attention. Although I was drawn to Szyk's work at an early age and now seek out books he has illustrated, I was not aware of his output in relation to Hitler. I agree with you about Rountree's depictions relative to Potter's. His animals have more vitality and express more personality.
Greetings,and Thank You for your very speedy reply!! I also meant to add that I enjoy the music backgrounds that rather set the mood for period of art chosen! Then,imagine my surprise and delight while listening to one of your illustration installments some tunes that I recognized a certain style of elec. guitar reminiscent of say Eric Clapton and Cream maybe,but I just couldnt pinpoint the artist,until I eagerly awaited the end credits,or maybe it wasnt listed,buf I discovered thst YOU are also a musician,as well as a great narrator...! So! There ya go,a mukti-talented gentleman putting your skills to good use! One of these days I will make a effort at figuring out how to add my own composition(s)? to videos,,,once I teach myself how to do THAT..for some far future ( retirement projects) when I think of how I want to create,and equipment that's affordable... Oh!! Have you ever hezrd of Katherine Richardson Wireman,and her Sister-In-Law Eugenie Wireman? K R was a Howard Pyle student,and fantastic illustrator in her own right,but there is not enough mentioned about these gals! We were fortunate enough to find an original K R W,and eventually donated it to the Delaware Musuem of Art..too long a story to go into here,but thanks to my hubby for doing what he could to get her a wee bit more recognized....We are going to be anxiously awaiting each new video you make! So glad you are yourself a Hero for putting forth the resesrch and effort to make these delightful and entertaining productions!! Cheers Pete!! 😉😁🎸🎶
Hi again - and I'm floored by the praise and appreciation. I was completely unaware of either Wireman so thanks a lot for the information. I'm not sure if I'll be able to dig out enough decent resolution images by either to make them a feature but I'll give it a shot. It's shameful how forgotten some of these people have become. Bye for now Pete
How wonderful your videos are Pete. Bloody well done. I’m very interested in illustration and was once told I should take it up as a career but life has shoved me a few different ways and now I am just delighted to enjoy the work of the many talent artists out there. Well done again and thank you.
Hello and thanks a lot for your enthusiastic comment about the channel content. It's a real pleasure to know viewers get something positive from the work shown.
Most enjoyable video I've watched on TH-cam for a long while. Can't wait to carry on with your channel. Shame I never found these when I was studying illustration. Thank you for taking time to make these
Hello and thanks a lot for your positive response to the channel. I hope you continue to find material of interest, and if you can share with others I'm always on the lookout for more subscribers!
Hello and that's a very nice thing to say. I must say some of the older videos are a bit hit and miss but as they say practice makes perfect (in theory at least). Either way your comment is much appreciated.
@@petebeard I'm just so appreciative of the amount of high-quality content and information. I would have been satisfied with a slide show from masters. But you know so much about a huge amount of talented people I haven't even heard of.
I embarked on your voyage through these unsung illustrators by chance and haphazardly followed on, wonderful idyls from the daily drudgery. It was many months later (also known as today) before I watched your first 'Unsung heroes'. Usually when I develop these kinds of interest I get obsessively academic and start at the beginning and move through to the end. I hope you won't be offended, but I think I will just continue to enjoy your reviews of these artists as a semi-random sampling. If you ever produce a magnum opus, then I will certainly subscribe, but the unpredictable nature of each of your parts have been very satisfying each and of themselves. Thank you very much.
Hello and thanks for the appreciation. I like to think that the fairly random nature of the selections in the series makes it all the more interesting, so I don't mind what order you watch them in as long as you watch them. Thanks.
A most worthy project with which to occupy one's energy. I once owned a 2-volume set of the *1001 Nights,* and I presently possess my grandfather's copy of the *Rubaiyat,* both with Szyk's glorious illustrations therein. Also, I have the edition of *Gulliver's Travels* illustrated by Pogany. And, being interested in history, I have often run across topical cartoons from *Puck* and *Judge* that delighted me. Glad I am to see these talented men opened to the renown they deserve, and I eagerly anticipate the rest of the series (which by now, I see, is *quite* extensive). Well done, sir - and if you haven't already, examine the work of my grandfather's colleague Duane Bryers (1911-2012) and his plump, jolly pin-up girl Hilda! 😏 😍 😁
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of the channel, and what I'm trying to accomplish with it. Coincidentally another viewer recently mentioned Duane Byers and Hilda, neither of whom I had previously encountered. Unfortunately he was born in 1911, which puts him precisely one year too late to be eligible for this series. This may seem pedantic on my part but as it is with a window between 1850 and 1910 I still have more to do than I have already done. And I'm not getting any younger. However among many other projects on the go (I'm far from methodical) is a video devoted exclusively to the history of the illustrated pinup, and when/if i make it Hilda is sure to feature.
@@petebeard I quite understand, and it should have occurred to me. But I shall look forward to the rest of the series regardless - have no fears on that score. 😊
Well that was bloody brilliant. Being a YT miner is hard... so much rock and rubbish to sift through, then just occasionally, pay dirt! 70 plus more to go. I'm setting up for a binge. Thanks very much pete beard.
Hello and many thanks for your kind comment. I hope you are with the channel for the long haul - there are many more videos to come, providing I don't get hit by a bus.
I was immediately struck by Pogany's eyes. Many draw them anatomically correct, but he managed to squeeze so much expression out of them. Even in his Art Deco period he retained that expressiveness.
Mr. Beard, one remarkable work by Willie Pogany are the paintings (frescoes?) on the ceiling of the nursery at the famous Cá d´Zan mansion in Sarasota, Florida, the belonged to John Ringling, of circus fame. Very curious and beautiful indeed.
Hello and thanks for the information. I had never heard of this remarkable building nor had any idea Pogany had created the paintings.Sadly there's not a lot of evidence of this work on the internet.
Hey up Pete, just found your channel! I’m starting at this part 1 but I hope to see Eric Winter and Robert Lumley (Ladybird illustrators), they made a huge impression on a 1970s kid. Keep up the great work...tremendous video mate...and thank you.
Hello to you and welcome aboard. Thanks for the two illustrators -never heard of either of them to be honest. A casual glance at whats available by them online unfortunately suggests I'd struggle to find enough decent resolution pics or biography to feature them. But that doesn't mean I won't forget about them and they may well feature (even if briefly) in another context. Thanks again.
@@petebeard hi Pete. Yes I’ve never been able to find much about them, but their work I’m sure influenced the imagination of a lot of kids like me. When Ladybird began to change these illustrations in the fairy stories to more “modern” black outline pictures I began to collect Ladybird books....2000 books later , quite the collection.
Hello to you, Jeff. And thanks a lot for the appreciation. I think you might be the only viewer that's liked a video before they've even finished it. I hope the rest don't disappoint.
I would love to see a video series on the artists that graced the pages of the 20 volume 'Book Of Knowledge' (those editions that were published before 1946/47)
Hello and thanks for the suggestion. Id never heard of it - don't think it made it to the UK. I'll investigate - although I'm guessing it would be unlikely to find enough material to make a video from. But I've been lucky before...
The Book of Knowledge was an illustrated encyclopedia for young people. When I was born in Nov, 1945 my father bought a set for me. My life was primed with these books. When i went to sea in 1965 I lost track of them. I read them them through and through, I have 4 sets of them now that I purchased from EBay. they range from the 1920's to 1946. There are so many full page illustrations of poetry , art histories with hundreds of art history paintings using the photogravure process (blue and sepia tones). I will scan some of the pages for you if you wish. please contact me if you want see some samples. I have been collecting illustrated books for more than 45 years, I have a collection of Underground comics from the time I lived in San Francisco (1973 to 1981) I am a glass artist, still designing and restoring church windows.
@@lancebon2931 Hello and thanks a lot for your reply. Following your last reply I had a rummage around the internet and did find some examples. As predicted there was very little decent resolution evidence, though, which I find surprising as Americans are usually pretty good - probably the best - at preserving their illustration heritage. And thanks for your generous offer to scan and send samples but I'd be reluctant to put you to the trouble for something I wouldn't be able to feature on the channel anyway. I hope that your glass business is prospering, and thanks for the interest in the channel.
I really love this series, just like everyone else here. Would you consider making a video on the pulp fiction / retrofuturistic artists of the 20th century? One of my favorite was Edward Valigursky
Hello and thanks for watching the videos and your favourable comments.Regarding pulp I've been working on that very subject for a while now and it's turning into quite an epic so I won't make any rash promises about when it's likely to make an appearance. There are a terrifying number of others also in the queue. But in the meantime there are several pulp/scifi artists in the unsung heroes series. And a particular thanks for the name Ed Valigursky, who I had never heard of.
Absolutely stunning work, all of it. I draw a lot myself. I copy a lot of the art of William Blake and convert into drawings, but I want to come up with my own work, only thing is, I still have to look at pictures of something if I want to draw it and I wonder did these guys know how to paint and draw all of that without having to do that?.
Hi Jim. Thanks for liking the video and I hope you'll watch more. At the risk of being patronising it's far better to create observational work from photos or life than from drawn/painted images. That's what virtually every 'realistic' illustrator or artist for that matter did.And quite a few of the non-realistic ones too.
Just beneath your rich offering of historical biographical sketches, I always get the vague, nostalgic sense that I'm a young boy listening to a reading of Peter Rabbit...
Hello and thanks for your appreciation of the videos. If I'd known I had an apparently soothing voice I'd have attempted a career doing talking books. Too late now though...
What a monumental and wholly worthwhile undertaking! In the '90s, after finding 1938 FORTUNEs in a recycling dumpster, I began a nightly circuit of local recyc spots, climbing into dumpsters to dig for old pulp. In 10 years, I amassed volumes of advertising illustrations from the '20s to the '80s. Now I can find out who created these wonderful works! Thanks so much.
Hello and I'm glad you found the channel. I hope you continue to find it of interest. Just to lure you in check out unsung heroes 62 for Ernest Hamlin Baker's wonderful Fortune covers.
This collection of brief visual essays on illustrators and their art is one of the most wonderful presentations on TH-cam - as said, a picture is worth a thousand words, and illustrators speak through the drawings they provide to illuminate the ideas and words of the authors - your bringing to light so many artists that have affected my own mental perceptions of written words and ideas is greatly appreciated
Many thanks for your appreciation for my efforts with the channel. It's great to know the work is welcomed by viewers such as yourself.
What a marvelous series... Thank you! ❤️
Hello and thanks a lot for your positive comment. I hope you'll watch more in the series too.
I agree!
On the days when I feel unwell or just depressed, I can rely on Pete to cheer me up! Pagani is definitely my hero of this group - very humorous and diverse.
Thanks as usual, and if you enjoyed the Pogany sequence there's a video on the channel devoted just to his work you might enjoy.
Beautiful! Syzk ‘s work in particular is BREATHTAKING! thank you for your work!
It's a bit late perhaps but your encyclopedic video series so well presented are re-educating me after more years of neglect than I care to tell. It is all so positive and perceptive. And quiet!!
Hello again, and i my humble opinion it's never too late to learn. I don't know whether I've already said this (short - term memory is not what it used to be)but I knew less than half these illustrators before I started this series. And I'm really glad I found most of them. Some I can do without.
Your channel is so UNIQUE and very appreciated. You bring to light the historical art that would otherwise be buried through time. Thank you!
Hello again and I'm very glad you continue to have an interest in the channel content. Thanks a lot for your support
Pete, thank you so much for the effort you're putting in making these videos. They are great!!! I'm an illustrator and your's is definetely my new favourite youtube chanel. I will recommend to everybody interested. :)
And thanks to you for your support. It's particularly rewarding when I hear from professionals who like what I'm doing. It keeps me motivated.
Thank you Pete, you are a hero. This is the most enjoyable series ever!!
Hello and thanks a lot for your very flattering comment. I'm just the messenger, though.
I'm late to this elegantly crafted docuseries but I would like to express my gratitude and appreciation for all that you do - this and your illustrations. You are one of the most original voices and channels on TH-cam. Thank you sir!
Hello and welcome to the channel. And if you are going to use flattering expressions such as 'elegantly crafted' you can be as late as you like. Admittedly I've been uploading for a while now but viewing figures and subscriptions continue to rise - if not as much as I'd like - so I'm actually pretty pleased with the channel's imcreasing popularity.
It's always good to learn something new very innovative and interesting broadcast thankyou for Sharing looking forward to more
Hello and many thanks for your positive response to the video. And I hope you continue to enjoy the others on the channel.
I've only JUST discovered this wonderful series. More than a 100 to enjoy? I am feeling like the proverbial pig in sh**! Thank you, good sir!!! I fully intend to enjoy every one of these with an appropriate whiskey or beer and revel in the wonderful history of illustration.
Hello and welcome to the channel. I hope you continue to find content that's of interest and if you haven't already I hope you will subscribe and maybe share with others.
Having up to now randomly gone through the unsung, I decided to look for the very first one - and although it was posted some years ago, I found it to be just as beautifully put together and presented as the others that were to follow. What an incredible output, what an intimidating amount of work and many, many hours of research. The first quartet is extraordinary, and yet not overshadowing the many others you presented. Back to back I watched number one with number 100 (which I had already seen), so here is a small poetic observation:
With 100 episodes done
Pete Beard sighed: “That was quite a run.
But there are plenty more.
And it isn’t a bore.
The next few hundred will be quite fun.”
Thanks a lot for your kind words - and the bonus of another limerick. Both are appreciated.
These are my favorite videos on all of TH-cam! Thank you Pete Beard.
Hello and thanks. Tha's music to my ears.
@@petebeard well they are really terrific. I share them with all my artist friends and family. They are especially good when played on a wall size hi-def tv. I only wish I wasn’t a starving artist so I could share more than my gratitude and admiration. Well done.
@@theKluck Hello again and I'm more than happy with gratitude and admiration. I was never in this for financial reward, and the dreadful ads pay my monthly wine bill.
4 years late to this, but from the first video in the playlist, I already know this's gonna be a blast!! Thank you so much for sharing these!
Hello and I'm just glad that our orbits have collided, late or not. I hope you continue to enjoy the material on the channel.
Thank you for bringing to our attention to this series of unsung (most anyway) illustrationists...
They are all excellent in their own way.
Here we go again...
another outstanding video introducing me to even more wonderful illustrators that I'd never heard of before, and often who's work I recognized seeing before this program.
I just love Zim's work, with his whimsical illustrations and his fun caricatures. It's no wonder people sought out his talent to have their stories penned by him!
His ability to tell a story with his drawings, and add a twisted element to add that extra flair is just incredible! It makes you closely study everything in the illustration, for fear of missing some minute hilarious detail!
and Harry Roundtree's animals are outstanding! Your narration hits it right on the head in where he could draw an animal with seemingly human gestures, but still maintain the animal's natural body forms. That just blows me away!
I'd bet that these were fun guys to have a conversation with. I'm sure they had crazy perspectives on just about any subject.
OK Mr Beard, you've done it again. Great job with this video!
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation and consideration of the work of these illustrators. Both Zim and Rountree are just my kind of humorous illustrators and I'm glad you also like their work. I'm now re-visiting some of these early unsung heroes at greater length, just like I have with Pogany, and if I can find enough additional material both of them would be ideal candidates.
Fantastic. Thanks so much for doing this series. Learned a lot about illustrators that I never heard of before.
Many thanks for your appreciation, and I hope you continue to find content that's of interest.
Thank you for keeping the memories of these incredible artists alive.
I salute you,sir.
Hello and your appreciation is greatly valued.
Magnificent! I will be spending many hours watching all of your videos.
Hello and thanks for your appreciation. I hope you find more that you enjoy.
@@petebeard I am up to episode six, and, I have no doubt that I will be watching all of them.
I'm fascinated to see illustrators' careers with their twists and turns. But the theme of talent developed runs throughout.
Hello and many thanks for your comment about the channel.
I only recently discovered your wonderful and extensive series of videos. They are a joy to watch and your narrations are perfect. Thank you for putting a spotlight on this fascinating area of Art!
Hello and thanks for the positive response.I hope you continue to enjoy the channel.
Don't know how I stumbled on this channel, but it's fantastic! Thank you for these great videos
Hello and welcome to the channel. Please subscribe and share if you haven't already.
I have just discovered this wonderful series of videos and am now starting from the very beginning. Thank you for putting these together.
Hello and that;s great to hear. I should warn you that some (actually more than some) of the early ones suffer from poor sound balance. I'm pretty deaf and it took me a while to get it done better. If you encounter one, try turning the sound down and the subtitles on.
I've been a lifelong painter, only rarely an illustrator in my younger years, but have always had the highest regards for good craftsmen of whatever stripe. Not even 4 minutes into your 1st installment about illustrators and anticipate that I will be grateful for them all.
Gotta binge watch this series - 1st found #9 & now I am hooked... as an amateur illustrator & cartoonist and long time fan & follower of this genres ... I am in yt heaven thank you
Thanks Pete, off to check out the Arthur Szyk Society...
What a gift! Thank you, thank you, Pete Beard!
Hello and thanks to you also for commenting so favourably. I hope you continue to enjoy the channel content.
The best thing I have discovered on the internet in the last decade.
Hello and many thanks for your flattering comment. I hope you continue to think so.
As expected, and not entirely surprising your source reading is impeccable, thanks again for sharing your thoughts with all of us....after 40 years in the NHS it is brilliant to discover this wonderful world of art ,thank you sir....E
I had Arthur Szyk’s Hans Christian Andersen tales as a child in the 70’s. It made a huge impression on me and I never forgot it. It also helped me form the artistic sensibility I have to this day. Thank you for this series. You’re highlighting a wonderful group of artists that should not be forgotten.
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciative comment. As with a few others I featured early on in this series I'm currently working on a video devoted just to Szyk's work, as I now realise I didn't really do him justice with a 3 minute slot. I have no idea when it will be finished and uploaded but hopefully early in the new year.
@@petebeard I look forward to seeing it!
Wonderful resource for any student of illustration of art in general, thank you
Hello and thanks a lot for your favourable response to the channel. I hope you'll continue to watch the videos.
Thanks Peter, If you ever put the entire series of video onto DVD , I would buy a set in a heartbeat, love your work sir.
Hello and thanks a lot. I've wondered about re-formatting either as discs or e-books but I want to get to part 100 before considering options. At that point I'm taking a break from this partcular series and concentrating on solo topics and that might make the perfect opportunity. Never say never...
Absolutely fascinating. Beautiful as people as well as artists.
Thank you!
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. It's very welcome.
Wow, just WOW. Wonderful. Thank you for this. So much talent. This is such a gift you are giving us.
Hello and thanks a lot. It's really motivating when viewers respond so positively to the channel.
Sometimes TH-cam brings a treasure to you, this is taking me back to childhood. I loved illustrated books and would paw over them for hours, loved Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, an Australian tale, thank you so much
Hello and thanks a lot for your positive response. I assume you are from Australia and if so you may be familiar with Norman Lindsay, who created The Magic Pudding alongside his more adult material. He is featured in unsung heroes of illustration 28.
I should thank you in advance for every video of this series is crafted from your love of these artists some.of them Im fortunate to encounter thanks to you, sir!🇦🇷
Hola y muchas gracias por tu apreciación del canal y su contenido. Me alegro de que disfrutes de los videos.
Wonderful video! A treasure for artists and fans of golden age illustration. Thanks for taking the time to create this series, Pete!
And thanks for your appreciation -it means a lot to know there are others who are passionate about illustration
As someone slowly discovering my love illustration and art: thank you, thank you, thank you! This series feels like you are showing me the world a little, and it´s wonderful :)
Hello and I'm very pleased you found the channel. There isnt a whole lot about art that hangs in galleries but there's plenty of illustration of all kinds from all over the planet which I hope will interest and inspire you.
Thank you, Pete Beard - #1! It's fun to 'meet' you 4 years back - to notice how you began and have stayed the same/changed your style - your work is such a Good Deed, not only for the illustrators you showcase but also for all of us, your viewers - you have the gift of making people and their histories come alive for us - thank you very much. Happy New Year, may 2022 be wonderful!
Hi and thanks a lot. I must admit once I've made the videos I rarely if ever go back to them later. If memory serves I think many were well intentioned but by comparison clumsily put together and - knowing me - excessively opinionated. Nevertheless they are what they are and I keep looking in a determinedly forward direction. Which leads me nicely round to saying a very happy new year to you too.
Sincerely appreciate your series! They are fascinating and inspiring!
Hello and many thanks for your appreciative comment.
Fascinating video presentation, I learned a lot. Beautiful images, stunning illustrations. Thank you. Your channel fills an educational gap about visual artistry. I hope your films get shown in colleges and museums. Brilliant work.
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment. I know of a couple of courses that do show the videos but no more than that as far as I can tell.
This is what TH-cam does best! A marvellous clear "authored" piece. Any broadcast TV programme on the subject would be over-produced, limited by time, and suffer the interference of executives.
I came here from your excellent Heath Robinson video, and was slightly awe-struck when I saw there were over 40 of these. It's disconcerting to realize that for every illustrator whose work you know, there are dozens of really good ones whose work you don't. It's much the same for actors.
Thank you --- I have many hours of fascinating viewing ahead.
Hello to you and many thanks for your favourable response to my videos. There seems to be no end to the number of illustrators who are an endangered species so I hope you keep watching for as long as I can continue to shed a bit of light on them.
@@petebeard One thing that would be much appreciated --- an index of which artists are featured in each of these videos. In fact, you are so prolific, I suspect we would all like to have a web site (needing frequent updating) that functions as a contents list and index for all your videos. Perhaps this already exists, and I have not found it.
I still have a couple of books from childhood (and what a huge impact illustrations can have at that age): one is called "Humors of History" with gloriously funny illustrations by Arthur Moreland. The other is a book of Stanley Holloway monologues (The Lion & Albert etc) illustrated by John Hassall.
I am also a big fan of humourous cartoons and I imagine that the line between them and illustrations must sometimes be hard to define, and be the cause of much discussion. Is Pont a great cartoonist but a poor illustrator? What about H.M. Bateman and Gerard Hoffnung?
@@petebeard Just found your series on Cartoons!
Hello again and many thanks for your appreciation of the channel content gladdens my old heart. And if I had known when I started out making these videos just how much they would consume my energies and time I would have either (a) not taken on the challenge and lived the life of an elderly dissolute, or (b) done things somewhat differently, including some form of index for what I didn't realise was going to be a rather long list of heroes.
Thank you so much for this wonderful series.
Hello and I'm pleased that you appreciate the channel content.
I chanced upon this video today and became instantly hooked. I've long been a fan of the golden age of illustration so these videos of yours are right up my street. Thank you!
Hi Mark and thanks for subscribing. I hope you continue to watch and enjoy the series.
@@petebeard thank you, I certainly will!
Oh I had that Hans Christian Anderson book by Szyk as a child! I think it was the seed of my love for Medieval art - Thank You - the book is long gone and I never would have figured it out. Thank You so much for making these videos. I'm working to become an illustrator myself now that I'm old - it's the only thing I want to do - I'm glad I found your videos - thank you.
Hello Jane and thanks a lot for your favourable comments. Arthur Szyk was a real revelation to me when I started making the series. If only I'd been able to paint like that. And I wish you well in your bid to become an illustrator. The good news is there's loads of instructional stuff about all aspects of illustration on the web. I hope you continue to watch and be inspired.
I am in love with your illustration history series! Thank you for bringing these remarkable art works to light.
Thanks for your comment - it means a lot to me. I'm currently working on the fourth and last in the series so watch this space - and please share the link
Fascinating! I'm enjoying your work very very much. I so love illustration and understanding it's history. Thank you so much for your work. Your narration and ability to tell the story is so engaging. Have a great day Peter. I've subscribed and I will see everything you write with so much pleasure.
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of the channel, and for your subscription. I hope you do continue to find material that's of interest.
I cant thank you enough what a fabulous series.
Your work is so good! I can watch it all day!
Hello and thanks a lot. That's great to know.
Pete, I LOOOOOOVE this series. A true gem, thanks so much for these!!! I'm addicted to these.
Hello and thanks very much for your comment. I hope you'll continue to find content that's of interest.
Thank you Pete. This videos contain so much knowledge.
Hi and thanks. It's great to know people enjoy the work.
HELLO and THANK YOU PETE!!!!!! We are ( hubby and I ) ENTHRALLED with these beautiful videos!! As lovers of illustration,,its wonderful and high time some special person put out informative and visual examples of these Unsung Heroes...! W@W!!! Sad to hear how some of these amazing artists passed way too early,or suffered some crappy hardships.
If I had a time machine,I would go back and observe them all at work and attempt to learn techniques....
Your Gems and Treasures here are works of art also! We sure hope you make more....we will watch these over and over!!
Happiness Hugs,and God Bless You!😘👼- Mindi and Bob from Iowa,USA
Well it's always a pleasure to know people like the videos I'm making, but I'm overwhelmed by the level of your enthusiasm. I still have an astonishingly large list of neglected illustrators to keep me busy in my retirement and others on related topics in the pipeline so watch this space. Thanks a lot for your support
Pete
Thank you!!!! I am so glad to have found your videos.
Fascinating!! Thanks!!!!
Pete, I love your videos! Somehow one showed up on my youtube feed and I am SO glad to have found your channel. I have enjoyed illustration especially in children's books from a very early age and it's a delight to see these artworks again. I will spend many hours enjoying the dozens of videos you have produced. Thank you!
Hello and I'm pleased our orbits have collided, and I hope you continue to find material of interest on the channel. You may have already seen it but there is a video specifically about children's illustration titled Once Upon a Time.
I'm loving all your videos on illustration, I've been playing them as I sit and draw or paint. Keep up the amazing and important work.
Hi Sean and thanks for watching. No sign of me running out of material for a long time yet.
Wow Pete, I came across your videos purely by accident and I'm so glad I did!! This is so fascinating and so professionally done, well done you!!! It's hard to believe these talented artists have long since been forgotten and yet what great work they produced. Thankyou for opening this fascinating (yet hidden) world of these marvellous artists and their amazing works. These should be put out on a dvd series, the time and effort you take clearly shows and the music is really good too, I especially love that piece of music that kicks in at 6:24 on this particular video, a great job Pete, and I shall definitely be looking up some these talented artists.
Hi and many thanks for your very enthusiastic response - I hope you'll continue with the series and the others I've made. And a particular thanks about the tune. I (optimistically) thought I would compose and write for the series but that was when I thought I might only be making a handful and I've had to download generic tracks because there just wasn't time to do my own as well. But I've always regretted it.
@@petebeard You're very welcome Pete, it seems to me that you're a very talented guy, I will definitely watch more of your videos for sure. Take care Pete and thankyou for taking the time to reply, it means a lot. All the best.
Thanks a lot for this amazing series, please don’t stop putting them out. I do really appreciate the high quality of your content :)
Hi and thanks very much for your comment. I looked at my 'to do' list and it's longer than the ones I've done to date so unless I get hit by a bus or similar there's no chance I'll stop. Thanks again
Pete, I just discovered your channel. What a treasure! Truly great stuff! The research effort is obvious and this is a truly terrific resource for artists! Thank you!
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of the channel and its content. Selfishly, I hope you'll subscribe too.
@@petebeard I have subscribed and I have all notifications on.
Thank you for bringing these unsung illustrators to our attention. Although I was drawn to Szyk's work at an early age and now seek out books he has illustrated, I was not aware of his output in relation to Hitler. I agree with you about Rountree's depictions relative to Potter's. His animals have more vitality and express more personality.
I love these videos because I can learn about artists I never heard from. I loved Arthur Szyk work and shared it with my whole family. Thank you
Hello and many thanks for your favourable comments. Of all the illustrators I have covered Sztk has to be among my absolute favourites.
Greetings,and Thank You for your very speedy reply!! I also meant to add that I enjoy the music backgrounds that rather set the mood for period of art chosen! Then,imagine my surprise and delight while listening to one of your illustration installments some tunes that I recognized a certain style of elec. guitar reminiscent of say Eric Clapton and Cream maybe,but I just couldnt pinpoint the artist,until I eagerly awaited the end credits,or maybe it wasnt listed,buf I discovered thst YOU are also a musician,as well as a great narrator...! So! There ya go,a mukti-talented gentleman putting your skills to good use! One of these days I will make a effort at figuring out how to add my own composition(s)? to videos,,,once I teach myself how to do THAT..for some far future ( retirement projects) when I think of how I want to create,and equipment that's affordable...
Oh!! Have you ever hezrd of Katherine Richardson Wireman,and her Sister-In-Law Eugenie Wireman? K R was a Howard Pyle student,and fantastic illustrator in her own right,but there is not enough mentioned about these gals! We were fortunate enough to find an original K R W,and eventually donated it to the Delaware Musuem of Art..too long a story to go into here,but thanks to my hubby for doing what he could to get her a wee bit more recognized....We are going to be anxiously awaiting each new video you make! So glad you are yourself a Hero for putting forth the resesrch and effort to make these delightful and entertaining productions!! Cheers Pete!! 😉😁🎸🎶
Hi again - and I'm floored by the praise and appreciation. I was completely unaware of either Wireman so thanks a lot for the information. I'm not sure if I'll be able to dig out enough decent resolution images by either to make them a feature but I'll give it a shot. It's shameful how forgotten some of these people have become. Bye for now
Pete
How wonderful your videos are Pete. Bloody well done. I’m very interested in illustration and was once told I should take it up as a career but life has shoved me a few different ways and now I am just delighted to enjoy the work of the many talent artists out there. Well done again and thank you.
Hello and thanks a lot for your enthusiastic comment about the channel content. It's a real pleasure to know viewers get something positive from the work shown.
Finding your channel just now. What a wonderful resource for finding new inspiration. Thank you!!
Hi and thanks a lot for your positive comment. I hope you continue to watch - there are more in the pipeline.
Pete, these videos are astonishing. Less noticeable but nearly as compelling is the subtle background music you have chosen to accompany them.
Hello and thanks for the appreciation. It's very welcome.
Pete Beard thanks for starting playlists, that will help in sharing.
Hello and thanks fir the comment. And it reminds me to make more, so I will just as soon as I can.
@@petebeard yes please. I tried to do it but failed. Groups of ten seem good. You've done such a great job on these!
Most enjoyable video I've watched on TH-cam for a long while. Can't wait to carry on with your channel. Shame I never found these when I was studying illustration. Thank you for taking time to make these
Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. I hope you'll watch others and enjoy them too.
Love these series. Thanks for the videos.
Hello and thanks a lot foryour appreciation. It matters to me.
Excellent! Thank you, and APSACA!
Hello again and thanks for the APSACA.
Thank you guys this is fantastic, beautiful work. Thanks for sharing.
Hello and I'm glad you like it. I hope you'll watch more in the series.
Wow, just found your channel and watched this video! Looking forward to watching more, such great history and narration Pete.
Hello and thanks a lot for your positive response to the channel. I hope you continue to find material of interest, and if you can share with others I'm always on the lookout for more subscribers!
Best channel discovered this year
Hello and thanks a lot for the appreciation.
Excellent, really appreciate this
Thanks a lot for your comment - and subscription.
Thank-you!
These videos are amazing, thank you for your awesome work!
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation - such comments are a great motivator.
everything is so fantastic that you've done
Hello and that's a very nice thing to say. I must say some of the older videos are a bit hit and miss but as they say practice makes perfect (in theory at least). Either way your comment is much appreciated.
@@petebeard I'm just so appreciative of the amount of high-quality content and information. I would have been satisfied with a slide show from masters. But you know so much about a huge amount of talented people I haven't even heard of.
I embarked on your voyage through these unsung illustrators by chance and haphazardly followed on, wonderful idyls from the daily drudgery. It was many months later (also known as today) before I watched your first 'Unsung heroes'. Usually when I develop these kinds of interest I get obsessively academic and start at the beginning and move through to the end. I hope you won't be offended, but I think I will just continue to enjoy your reviews of these artists as a semi-random sampling. If you ever produce a magnum opus, then I will certainly subscribe, but the unpredictable nature of each of your parts have been very satisfying each and of themselves. Thank you very much.
Hello and thanks for the appreciation. I like to think that the fairly random nature of the selections in the series makes it all the more interesting, so I don't mind what order you watch them in as long as you watch them. Thanks.
Thank you so much Pete! Your videos are great !!!!! So much inspiration!
Hi and thanks a lot for your positive comment. I hope you continue to be inspired.
Thank you for your work sir Pete
Hello and thanks for watching. As long as people watch I'll keep making them.
Wonderful!...
Thank you!!!
Hello and many thanks for your comments. Glad you like the content.
We done and thanks for doing these. 😃
Great job . Thanks
Hello and thanks for the comment.
A most worthy project with which to occupy one's energy. I once owned a 2-volume set of the *1001 Nights,* and I presently possess my grandfather's copy of the *Rubaiyat,* both with Szyk's glorious illustrations therein. Also, I have the edition of *Gulliver's Travels* illustrated by Pogany. And, being interested in history, I have often run across topical cartoons from *Puck* and *Judge* that delighted me. Glad I am to see these talented men opened to the renown they deserve, and I eagerly anticipate the rest of the series (which by now, I see, is *quite* extensive). Well done, sir - and if you haven't already, examine the work of my grandfather's colleague Duane Bryers (1911-2012) and his plump, jolly pin-up girl Hilda! 😏 😍 😁
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of the channel, and what I'm trying to accomplish with it. Coincidentally another viewer recently mentioned Duane Byers and Hilda, neither of whom I had previously encountered. Unfortunately he was born in 1911, which puts him precisely one year too late to be eligible for this series. This may seem pedantic on my part but as it is with a window between 1850 and 1910 I still have more to do than I have already done. And I'm not getting any younger. However among many other projects on the go (I'm far from methodical) is a video devoted exclusively to the history of the illustrated pinup, and when/if i make it Hilda is sure to feature.
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I quite understand, and it should have occurred to me. But I shall look forward to the rest of the series regardless - have no fears on that score. 😊
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I quite understand, old chap, and glad I am to hear it. 😊
Excellent work.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation.
You have a fantastic series of videos here--new subscriber!
Well that was bloody brilliant. Being a YT miner is hard... so much rock and rubbish to sift through, then just occasionally, pay dirt! 70 plus more to go. I'm setting up for a binge. Thanks very much pete beard.
Hello and many thanks for your kind comment. I hope you are with the channel for the long haul - there are many more videos to come, providing I don't get hit by a bus.
again..wonderful
Hello again and thanks a lot.
I was immediately struck by Pogany's eyes. Many draw them anatomically correct, but he managed to squeeze so much expression out of them. Even in his Art Deco period he retained that expressiveness.
Mr. Beard, one remarkable work by Willie Pogany are the paintings (frescoes?) on the ceiling of the nursery at the famous Cá d´Zan mansion in Sarasota, Florida, the belonged to John Ringling, of circus fame. Very curious and beautiful indeed.
Hello and thanks for the information. I had never heard of this remarkable building nor had any idea Pogany had created the paintings.Sadly there's not a lot of evidence of this work on the internet.
what a most admirable King.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation.
Excellent video
Glad you like it. Thanks
Hey up Pete, just found your channel! I’m starting at this part 1 but I hope to see Eric Winter and Robert Lumley (Ladybird illustrators), they made a huge impression on a 1970s kid. Keep up the great work...tremendous video mate...and thank you.
Hello to you and welcome aboard. Thanks for the two illustrators -never heard of either of them to be honest. A casual glance at whats available by them online unfortunately suggests I'd struggle to find enough decent resolution pics or biography to feature them. But that doesn't mean I won't forget about them and they may well feature (even if briefly) in another context. Thanks again.
@@petebeard hi Pete. Yes I’ve never been able to find much about them, but their work I’m sure influenced the imagination of a lot of kids like me. When Ladybird began to change these illustrations in the fairy stories to more “modern” black outline pictures I began to collect Ladybird books....2000 books later , quite the collection.
BRAVO.
Hello to you, Jeff. And thanks a lot for the appreciation. I think you might be the only viewer that's liked a video before they've even finished it. I hope the rest don't disappoint.
Do you offer a catalog of your presentations listing the artists featured in each?
Thanks, Pete. Once again.
Hello again and thanks for your continued appreciation.
I would love to see a video series on the artists that graced the pages of the 20 volume 'Book Of Knowledge' (those editions that were published before 1946/47)
Hello and thanks for the suggestion. Id never heard of it - don't think it made it to the UK. I'll investigate - although I'm guessing it would be unlikely to find enough material to make a video from. But I've been lucky before...
The Book of Knowledge was an illustrated encyclopedia for young people. When I was born in Nov, 1945 my father bought a set for me. My life was primed with these books. When i went to sea in 1965 I lost track of them. I read them them through and through, I have 4 sets of them now that I purchased from EBay. they range from the 1920's to 1946. There are so many full page illustrations of poetry , art histories with hundreds of art history paintings using the photogravure process (blue and sepia tones). I will scan some of the pages for you if you wish. please contact me if you want see some samples.
I have been collecting illustrated books for more than 45 years, I have a collection of Underground comics from the time I lived in San Francisco (1973 to 1981)
I am a glass artist, still designing and restoring church windows.
@@lancebon2931 Hello and thanks a lot for your reply. Following your last reply I had a rummage around the internet and did find some examples. As predicted there was very little decent resolution evidence, though, which I find surprising as Americans are usually pretty good - probably the best - at preserving their illustration heritage. And thanks for your generous offer to scan and send samples but I'd be reluctant to put you to the trouble for something I wouldn't be able to feature on the channel anyway. I hope that your glass business is prospering, and thanks for the interest in the channel.
I really love this series, just like everyone else here.
Would you consider making a video on the pulp fiction / retrofuturistic artists of the 20th century? One of my favorite was Edward Valigursky
Hello and thanks for watching the videos and your favourable comments.Regarding pulp I've been working on that very subject for a while now and it's turning into quite an epic so I won't make any rash promises about when it's likely to make an appearance. There are a terrifying number of others also in the queue. But in the meantime there are several pulp/scifi artists in the unsung heroes series. And a particular thanks for the name Ed Valigursky, who I had never heard of.
@@petebeard I'll certainly check out those other artists in the series! Thanks for the reply 👍
Absolutely stunning work, all of it. I draw a lot myself. I copy a lot of the art of William Blake and convert into drawings, but I want to come up with my own work, only thing is, I still have to look at pictures of something if I want to draw it and I wonder did these guys know how to paint and draw all of that without having to do that?.
Hi Jim. Thanks for liking the video and I hope you'll watch more. At the risk of being patronising it's far better to create observational work from photos or life than from drawn/painted images. That's what virtually every 'realistic' illustrator or artist for that matter did.And quite a few of the non-realistic ones too.