"Gun welding gangsters and resolute heroic detectives in mortal combat" I get a kick at your descriptive word play. Complements the images perfectly. Watson indeed is a unsung artist of great merit.
Yet another genius illustrator with a diversity of attractive styles. His monochrome early work is really astonishing. Thank you for presenting him to us.
@@petebeard....in sunny Italee....a relative told me a tale of the London Irish regiment in WW2 Italy, brewing a cuppa in full view of totally bemused German infantry...Mrs C has visited, Venice..
Well, here is a new one for me. I’ve probably seen many of his wildlife hunting and fishing works at various hunting and fishing lodges I visited in my youth, but his name is new to me. I enjoyed this.
You're welcome as always. And funnily enough, another viewer had beaten you to it with the same suggestion. I'd never heard of him and I see his wife also illustrated. They are now very much on the list (but it's a long one so don't hold your breath). Thanks again for the suggestion.
I am so glad that this channel continues to output content. The great English voiceover, the well versed knowledge put forth, the wonderful images put onscreen. Long live Pete Beard and his channel.
Thanks for the comment and I;m a big admirer of duotone illustration too. The french in the 1920s did loads of it and it always looks somehow enchanting to me.
Detailed work, realistic in the animals especially horses ... the faces of the people & their eyes highly detailed. Interior page illustration that was good not having to do just covers. Thanks *Pete*
Many people took these types of publications, and the illustrations they featured, for granted. Despite being largely forgotten, Emmett Watson was undoubtedly among the most skilled artists providing images for these magazines.
Thanks a lot for another comment, and sadly being taken for granted is a fate many of those I've featured have endured. And it obviously has nothing to do with comparative talent or skill.
This excellent video - as many others aired by Pete - make me reflect - as rethinking meaning - about the art as a healing medicine, not only as a job.....living at a war time, involve a lot of hard situations that make oneself in psicological disturbances.... Returning home, if you had good luck, and being involved in resolve graphic tasks, may be - in the same value - so dificult and so healing.... How many great artist hadn't returned from war events, we don't know......in Emmet Watson we make claps for them unfinished and unsung carrers!
Hello again, and I'm glad to say I have never (at least so far) had to live through a major war. And I agree with you that many of these illustrators rose above the hell that it must have been in both the frist and second world wars, and some at least survived with all their body parts. I think the pictures can heal those who make them and those who see them. Thanks as always for your insight.
@@petebeard I have a reference for one of those Toronto Daily Star illustrations, a story written by Murray Leinster and illustrated by Watson. You've inspired me to get back in touch with them and get a copy of it. Cheers!
@@saralight-waller8746...a most excellent city, hope to return one day, best wishes from the wirral peninsula,bounded by the mersey and the Dee and the Irish sea...geography and rhyme...E..
Love this one as ALWAYS! Thank for having the stamina and resolve to do all the research and investigative work for us to enjoy! I look forward to everyone!
I'm a very flawed person, and I know it. I'd rather read Hammett or Chandler than Shakespeare. Most of what is still available in print from the pulps isn't that admirable or even marginally readable (but I give them a go), but the covers and internal illustrations are mesmerising. I thank you most sincerely for not eschewing the pulp illustrators. I appreciate your coverage even of the abstract modernists - and it especially interesting how these seemed to have thrived as posters in the underground and train stations (one wonders if there isn't more than one PhD thesis on this), but my heart is with the phantasmagorical and menacing pulp covers, and also with the damsels in disarray and distress, but as I began, I am a very flawed person.
Thanks, Pete. Another great source of information on a little-known artist, certainly little known to me; I'm sure I've seen Watson's work before, but I knew nothing about him, in contrast to the Leyendeckers and Rockwell.
Hi again. I think it's pretty much the case that many of these American realists got forgotten about as others such as the big names you mentioned (and Wyeth of course) became the critics' darlings. Unfortunately for me as it's far from my favourite style of illustration there are still many more of a similar persuasion who I feel honour-bound to feature in the unsung heroes series at least.
This is yet another compelling video, Mr. Beard! I really appreciate all the work you do, selecting artists, researching, collecting, and editing images, and your good humored and informative narrative commentary, of course.
Another prolific talent that I had not heard of. Thanks for your continuing hard work creating these enjoyable, insightful, entertaining and educational videos Pete.
It always breaks my heart when I read of the practices of the treatment of the original art for the pulps and advertising, but for his wife to burn canvases because she thought they were an "embarrassment?" Thank goodness attitudes started to change in the late '60's and '70's!! Thanks for this profile! I'm sure I've seen his artwork on pulp magazines but had little background on him and his other work!
(66) What a fascinating artist. Quite adept at conveying a certain type of mood in each exquisite work. A shame he was lost so suddenly. Thank you SO much, Mr. Beard. I really do believe your uploads will (hopefully) last forever so others will benefit.
Thanks again for your appreciation. In terms of lasting forever I'm afraid I found out that after 2 years of inactivity channels get deleted. So when I fall off my perch it seems the videos will subsequently vanish too. Such is life, I suppose.
Fascinating look at a talented artist. Fine draftsmanship and deft use of oil paints, and yet one would think quick dry gouache would have been preferable over slow drying oil paint for an illustrator working on deadlines. So interesting.
Thanks for the comment. I've wondered about that too, but apparently there were quick drying oils, and in many cases they were scanned for repro before they were even dry.
These all have a...sensibility. A sense of pace, and time. So many clues for short stories. I recently read Nightmare Alley. It's incredible prose..the two films come nowhere near it. It's magical the way N.C. Wyeth's work was. See how I snuck back to llustration?
Hello (again?). I thought I'd already replied to your comment, but youtube seems to think differently. So if I'm wrong thanks for your comment and I will check that book out.
It's always refreshing to watch one of your videos. I've been battling self-doubt and was truly about to call it quits with drawing in general just a few months ago. Recently, though, I went back and looked at a lot of my old art and realized that I actually had a passion for art back then. That was what led me to your videos in the first place, and I'm so glad that you're still making these amazingly beautiful and well-informed videos. This is what I needed to really get back on the game. I have a lot more videos of yours to watch, and I'm ready to level up! Thank you for never changing!
Hello and many thanks for your comment and appreciation. Self-doubt is a particularly pernicious state of mind, and one Iv'e experienced on and off for as long as I've been making pictures. For me at least the trick was to accept that I would never be as good as those I aspired to emulate, but to realise it was the pursuit of that excellence that kept me going, even if I never achieved it. Sorry to sound so pseudo-mystical, but you struk a chord with me with what you said.
@petebeard I really appreciate what you said. I guess it's up to us to be great in our own way right? We'll get there, I'm not giving up hope just yet lol! I believe in you, and I do believe that we're further than we think! Let's keep it up!
Another great episode. Collectively they are a kind of online museum/ gallery. I hope someone somewhere is curating these and they do not vanish into the ether. They are a goldmine for interested blow ins like me and serious students alike. I wonder what AI is going to do with them?
WOW! He can draw anything, paint anything, catch movements in mid-air! It is so odd to me that his art and that of his peers is considered disposable! It is as fine as anything done in art history, not monumental because 'democracies and bank-driven mass economies' do not have high-minded anything! At least a church with the Assumption of Mary is much more a subject than duck hunting. But the work is superb, has few technical errors, well-observed, done quickly and with style. I am so happy that you are doing this site. I am more or less a 'closet' lover of 'pop art.' Carl Barks and MAD perhaps the first things I saw as a small boy. My experience with 'fine art' is all negative. I can do without the Maplethorps, the Chagalls, and the entire host of silly avant garde 'artists' who infested the imaginations of our generations!
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation and comments about the video. It's very welcome, and I freely admit to a similar annoyance about the so-called superiority of fine art over illustration.
Another great video, Pete. I know you've done a whole video on pulp magazine illustrations and, with all due respect, I blame you for my deep dive into the genre (happily, I'll admit)...;-)....) I'm also reading some of the stories as well as looking at the covers and interior art. A mixed bag on both fronts but some amazing work. What struck me with Watson was his ability to cross genres; western, soldier, detective, maudlin family scenes, even some "spicy" looking ladies in distress (no sci-fi, I noticed. I wonder if he attempted any?). Ah, the golden days of illustration! I guess getting older can make one wistful for, perhaps not better times, but maybe more creative times or perhaps times when editors and art directors were more open to new visually exciting ways of enticing readers to their wares. My thanks to you for sending me down that forbidden rabbit hole and coming up with some delightful and inspiring images. May your paintings never be burned or destroyed! Cheers, Pete.
Hello again and many thanks for your ongoing support for what I'm trying to do with the channel. There isn't a single example of science fiction illustration by Watson to be had, so if he did any it's vanished along with so much other stuff. Actually, quite a few of my own illustrations have been destroyed - by me. I'm not even entertaining the idea that they would ever have value as I was very much a walk-on part as an illustrator. But more importantly I worked extensively for pornographic magazines in the 80s and 90s (which seem quite tame now) but neverthelessa lot of it was nothing to be proud of. On a brighter topic I just got back from a week in Venice. Great weather, great art, great architecture and views, and it's mildy depressing to be back in the gloom of the northwest. Bye for now.
There's something odd going on with youtube. Yours is the third comment I would have sworn I had already replied to, but my masters disagree. So, belatedly, thanks a lot.
Hello, and I have covered Norm Saunders previously, of not in as much detail. He featured in my overview of pulp fiction art video and also in unsung heroes 15. But like others he's on the list (eventually) for a solo video too.
@@petebeard Thank you so much for the reply. I will do a much deeper dive into your past work. I must say you do a stellar job, and your content is so professional. Keep up the great work, it's much appreciated.
Beautiful work. You made a video maybe 3 or 4 years ago and i can't remember the guys name but he did some really cool paintings of a sort of cross section of a pond, with a guy standing in it i think, maybe some fish as well, can't remember, do you know who i mean?.
Thanks for your appreciation. I've been ransacking what's left of my memory banks about the image you mention, but it doesn't ring any bells, I'm sorry to say. The best I can suggest is that you look at the thumbnails of the videos made back then to see if you recognize the technique, at least. If you have success, please let me know - I'm intrigued.
He appears (admittedly only briefly) in unsung heroes of illustration 32. I may well return to him for a solo spot but I should warn you he'll be joining a long queue.
These illustrators are the real artists that should be celebrated. Their body of work puts the Masters to shame. Where are their museums? (Except here at Pete's)
Thanks a lot for your support and comment. I know there are some museums dedicated to illustration or particular illustrators but nowhere near enough of them.
Hello and I'm sorry but I was sure I had already replied to your comment. TH-cam disagree, apparently, so once more thanks a lot for your appreciation.
Sadly, if you do a google image search for Emmett Watson you get more pictures of that anorexic ingrate than you do of Watson's art. This world is a cultural toilet.
Alas, seldom has one of your fine illustrators been so thoroughly bypassed by the trends of time. Patriotism and the military? What are you, some kind of right-wing extremist? The family? No this-or-that-normative work, you bigot! Hunting? We know what certain small groups have made of celebrations of that. And magazines of any description? They've become excuses for ads. We could miss the pulp detectives, though in real life most of a PI's income was generated by obtaining evidence of infidelity for divorce cases. Nonetheless, I remember Argosy, and applaud your celebration of Mr. Watson!
Thanks as ever, and I was particularly pleased to create this video with the help of Watson's grandson. It gave me more insight into his actual life than most of the other subjects I've covered.
"Gun welding gangsters and resolute heroic detectives in mortal combat"
I get a kick at your descriptive word play. Complements the images perfectly.
Watson indeed is a unsung artist of great merit.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation, and I'm glad that the effort I put into writing these scripts isn't completely unnoticed.
Yet another genius illustrator with a diversity of attractive styles. His monochrome early work is really astonishing. Thank you for presenting him to us.
It's my great leasure to introduce these lesser known talents to a wider audience. Thanks as always for your appreciation.
As a pulp fan, I have seen some of these before, but the western ones are new to me. It really amazes me how prolific illustrative artists are.✌️♥️
Excellent colours and artwork....cheers Pete...thanks as always for sharing....E...
Thanks my friend. I just returned from a week in Venice. On the whole it's more appealing than Manchester, and the weather was really good.
@@petebeard....in sunny Italee....a relative told me a tale of the London Irish regiment in WW2 Italy, brewing a cuppa in full view of totally bemused German infantry...Mrs C has visited, Venice..
I love to see beautiful art like that. Thanks for sharing Mr. Beard.
Thanks as usual for your appreciation - it's always welcome.
Well, here is a new one for me. I’ve probably seen many of his wildlife hunting and fishing works at various hunting and fishing lodges I visited in my youth, but his name is new to me. I enjoyed this.
Hi and thanks as ever for your positive comment. Glad you liked his work.
What a lovely way to start my day! Breakfast with illustrations! Wonderful way to start the week. Thank you!📚🐈⬛🫖🦉🏕
Hello again and many thanks for your appreciation. It's always welcome.
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Thank you.
Always a pleasure.
Thanks again, Pete. You might consider looking at the work of Holling C. Holling, an American illustrator of children's books.
You're welcome as always. And funnily enough, another viewer had beaten you to it with the same suggestion. I'd never heard of him and I see his wife also illustrated. They are now very much on the list (but it's a long one so don't hold your breath). Thanks again for the suggestion.
VERY bold colors! His B&W line drawings are of course my favorites.
Thanks as usual for the comment.
Emmett Watson was a cover art and narrative art master. Well done, Pete!
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation as usual.
I am so glad that this channel continues to output content. The great English voiceover, the well versed knowledge put forth, the wonderful images put onscreen. Long live Pete Beard and his channel.
Hello and thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation of my work on the channel. Its a great boost to know viewers enjoy the videos.
I think I'm in love with duotones, thanks for the unnecessary rabbit hole I'm about to fall into! Great video, as always.
Thanks for the comment and I;m a big admirer of duotone illustration too. The french in the 1920s did loads of it and it always looks somehow enchanting to me.
Detailed work, realistic in the animals especially horses ... the faces of the people & their eyes highly detailed. Interior page illustration that was good not having to do just covers. Thanks *Pete*
Hi again and thanks as ever for your appreciation of yet another video - not forgetting the stars either.
Magnificent. I knew nothing about this great artist.
Thanks a lot for your comment. I'm pleased to have introduced you to his neglected work.
Many people took these types of publications, and the illustrations they featured, for granted. Despite being largely forgotten, Emmett Watson was undoubtedly among the most skilled artists providing images for these magazines.
Thanks a lot for another comment, and sadly being taken for granted is a fate many of those I've featured have endured. And it obviously has nothing to do with comparative talent or skill.
This excellent video - as many others aired by Pete - make me reflect - as rethinking meaning - about the art as a healing medicine, not only as a job.....living at a war time, involve a lot of hard situations that make oneself in psicological disturbances....
Returning home, if you had good luck, and being involved in resolve graphic tasks, may be - in the same value - so dificult and so healing....
How many great artist hadn't returned from war events, we don't know......in Emmet Watson we make claps for them unfinished and unsung carrers!
Hello again, and I'm glad to say I have never (at least so far) had to live through a major war. And I agree with you that many of these illustrators rose above the hell that it must have been in both the frist and second world wars, and some at least survived with all their body parts. I think the pictures can heal those who make them and those who see them. Thanks as always for your insight.
Thanks so much as always for the dedication to the artists !
Great to see and hear. A good way to start the day !
Hello again and thanks a lot. Probably better in the evening with a glass of wine I like to think, but I'm just happy that you watch them.
A wonderful video. Watson deserved a good retrospective and you have provided one. Thank you!
Hello again and I thought this one would appeal to you. Thanks a lot.
@@petebeard I have a reference for one of those Toronto Daily Star illustrations, a story written by Murray Leinster and illustrated by Watson. You've inspired me to get back in touch with them and get a copy of it. Cheers!
@@saralight-waller8746...a most excellent city, hope to return one day, best wishes from the wirral peninsula,bounded by the mersey and the Dee and the Irish sea...geography and rhyme...E..
@@eamonnclabby7067 How lovely! :)
Love this one as ALWAYS!
Thank for having the stamina and resolve to do all the research and investigative work for us to enjoy! I look forward to everyone!
Hi again. I was pleased to create this one, if only for Emmett Watson's grandson. And I'm pleased to say it's been quite popular with viewers.
I'm a very flawed person, and I know it. I'd rather read Hammett or Chandler than Shakespeare. Most of what is still available in print from the pulps isn't that admirable or even marginally readable (but I give them a go), but the covers and internal illustrations are mesmerising. I thank you most sincerely for not eschewing the pulp illustrators. I appreciate your coverage even of the abstract modernists - and it especially interesting how these seemed to have thrived as posters in the underground and train stations (one wonders if there isn't more than one PhD thesis on this), but my heart is with the phantasmagorical and menacing pulp covers, and also with the damsels in disarray and distress, but as I began, I am a very flawed person.
"Flawed" seems harsh description - "human" would be a better fit for you, me and all the countless others who like this stuff.
@@petebeard...Eclectic...is a lovely word for such a conversation as this....😅😅
Thanks-like cover art in those bright colours. 👍
Thanks for your appreciation.
what incredible documentary work you do
...and what a nice thing that is to say. It's a very welcome comment.
Thanks, Pete. Another great source of information on a little-known artist, certainly little known to me; I'm sure I've seen Watson's work before, but I knew nothing about him, in contrast to the Leyendeckers and Rockwell.
Hi again. I think it's pretty much the case that many of these American realists got forgotten about as others such as the big names you mentioned (and Wyeth of course) became the critics' darlings. Unfortunately for me as it's far from my favourite style of illustration there are still many more of a similar persuasion who I feel honour-bound to feature in the unsung heroes series at least.
Another wonderful illustrator whose name I did not know. Thank you, Pete!
...and many more to come by the look of it. I think this is a barrel I will never get to the bottom of. Thanks as usual.
I have a 70 year old emmet Watson picture I got from my grandfather. I’ve always wondered more about the artist this was super interesting!!!
Thanks a lot for your comment, and the website run by his son is well worth a visit. A very talented and unrecognised illustrator.
Great work, Pete. I have seen this man’s prince, and now I know it is, thank you for that
ello agai and thanks as usual for your appreciation.
Thank you for making this beautiful overview of this artist’s work.
Your well researched videos are very much appreciated.❤
Thanks a lot for your comment, and favourable comments such as yours are always welcome.
Excellent video. All those magazines...I think I'd definitely have picked up a copy of the 'Progressive Grocer' out of sheer curiosity...
Thanks a lot. And yes, what an absurdist title - conjures up all kinds of imagery.
Thanks Pete.Yet another fabulous episode!! Your channel makes me so relaxed....
Hello and thanks a lot fr the appreciation. Other viewers have menyioned the 'relaxing' quality of my videos. Maybe it's just my droning voice...
Amazing art and body of work. it's tuly inspiring to see past illustrators art.
Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation.
This is yet another compelling video, Mr. Beard! I really appreciate all the work you do, selecting artists, researching, collecting, and editing images, and your good humored and informative narrative commentary, of course.
Thanks a lot for your appreciation of my work on the channel. Comments such as yours really make my day.
Another prolific talent that I had not heard of. Thanks for your continuing hard work creating these enjoyable, insightful, entertaining and educational videos Pete.
Thanks as ever for your appreciation, and I'm glad you enjoyed Watson's work.
It always breaks my heart when I read of the practices of the treatment of the original art for the pulps and advertising, but for his wife to burn canvases because she thought they were an "embarrassment?" Thank goodness attitudes started to change in the late '60's and '70's!!
Thanks for this profile! I'm sure I've seen his artwork on pulp magazines but had little background on him and his other work!
Hello and thanks as ever for your favourable comment. Yes, the destruction of his paintings - and those of many others - brings a tear to the eye.
Thank you Pete , always wonderful work you find.
Thanks a lot, as ever.
hot dang, this is great
I'm glad you think so. Thanks a lot.
(66) What a fascinating artist. Quite adept at conveying a certain type of mood in each exquisite work. A shame he was lost so suddenly. Thank you SO much, Mr. Beard. I really do believe your uploads will (hopefully) last forever so others will benefit.
Thanks again for your appreciation. In terms of lasting forever I'm afraid I found out that after 2 years of inactivity channels get deleted. So when I fall off my perch it seems the videos will subsequently vanish too. Such is life, I suppose.
Thanks Pete, as always interesting, informative and entertaining 😊
I'm glad you enjoyed it and thanks a lot for saying so.
Fascinating look at a talented artist. Fine draftsmanship and deft use of oil paints, and yet one would think quick dry gouache would have been preferable over slow drying oil paint for an illustrator working on deadlines. So interesting.
Thanks for the comment. I've wondered about that too, but apparently there were quick drying oils, and in many cases they were scanned for repro before they were even dry.
These all have a...sensibility. A sense of pace, and time. So many clues for short stories. I recently read Nightmare Alley. It's incredible prose..the two films come nowhere near it. It's magical the way N.C. Wyeth's work was. See how I snuck back to llustration?
Thanks as usual for the comment and appreciation. That's a book I haven't read - or seen the films. I must make amends...
Hello (again?). I thought I'd already replied to your comment, but youtube seems to think differently. So if I'm wrong thanks for your comment and I will check that book out.
Thank you for your efforts, Pete! Very interesting artist.
Thanks for the comment. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
It's always refreshing to watch one of your videos. I've been battling self-doubt and was truly about to call it quits with drawing in general just a few months ago. Recently, though, I went back and looked at a lot of my old art and realized that I actually had a passion for art back then. That was what led me to your videos in the first place, and I'm so glad that you're still making these amazingly beautiful and well-informed videos. This is what I needed to really get back on the game. I have a lot more videos of yours to watch, and I'm ready to level up! Thank you for never changing!
Hello and many thanks for your comment and appreciation. Self-doubt is a particularly pernicious state of mind, and one Iv'e experienced on and off for as long as I've been making pictures. For me at least the trick was to accept that I would never be as good as those I aspired to emulate, but to realise it was the pursuit of that excellence that kept me going, even if I never achieved it. Sorry to sound so pseudo-mystical, but you struk a chord with me with what you said.
@petebeard I really appreciate what you said. I guess it's up to us to be great in our own way right? We'll get there, I'm not giving up hope just yet lol! I believe in you, and I do believe that we're further than we think! Let's keep it up!
Enjoyed….Thank you!
Thanks a lot for your comment.
Another great episode. Collectively they are a kind of online museum/ gallery. I hope someone somewhere is curating these and they do not vanish into the ether. They are a goldmine for interested blow ins like me and serious students alike. I wonder what AI is going to do with them?
Many thanks for your appreciation. An online gallery is precisely how I like to think of the channel, so your assessment is very welcome.
WOW! He can draw anything, paint anything, catch movements in mid-air! It is so odd to me that his art and that of his peers is considered disposable! It is as fine as anything done in art history, not monumental because 'democracies and bank-driven mass economies' do not have high-minded anything! At least a church with the Assumption of Mary is much more a subject than duck hunting. But the work is superb, has few technical errors, well-observed, done quickly and with style. I am so happy that you are doing this site. I am more or less a 'closet' lover of 'pop art.' Carl Barks and MAD perhaps the first things I saw as a small boy. My experience with 'fine art' is all negative. I can do without the Maplethorps, the Chagalls, and the entire host of silly avant garde 'artists' who infested the imaginations of our generations!
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation and comments about the video. It's very welcome, and I freely admit to a similar annoyance about the so-called superiority of fine art over illustration.
Another great video, Pete. I know you've done a whole video on pulp magazine illustrations and, with all due respect, I blame you for my deep dive into the genre (happily, I'll admit)...;-)....) I'm also reading some of the stories as well as looking at the covers and interior art. A mixed bag on both fronts but some amazing work. What struck me with Watson was his ability to cross genres; western, soldier, detective, maudlin family scenes, even some "spicy" looking ladies in distress (no sci-fi, I noticed. I wonder if he attempted any?). Ah, the golden days of illustration! I guess getting older can make one wistful for, perhaps not better times, but maybe more creative times or perhaps times when editors and art directors were more open to new visually exciting ways of enticing readers to their wares. My thanks to you for sending me down that forbidden rabbit hole and coming up with some delightful and inspiring images. May your paintings never be burned or destroyed! Cheers, Pete.
Hello again and many thanks for your ongoing support for what I'm trying to do with the channel. There isn't a single example of science fiction illustration by Watson to be had, so if he did any it's vanished along with so much other stuff. Actually, quite a few of my own illustrations have been destroyed - by me. I'm not even entertaining the idea that they would ever have value as I was very much a walk-on part as an illustrator. But more importantly I worked extensively for pornographic magazines in the 80s and 90s (which seem quite tame now) but neverthelessa lot of it was nothing to be proud of. On a brighter topic I just got back from a week in Venice. Great weather, great art, great architecture and views, and it's mildy depressing to be back in the gloom of the northwest. Bye for now.
I saw the name "Simon Templar" amongst the graphics. Interesting!
Yes, a Saint story for the USA. There was a comic strip there too but I can't remember who drew it.
@@petebeard....not me....😅😅
He's very good, reminds me of Rockwell
Thanks for the comment, and yes, just one of many who were in that tradition in the USA at the time.
Have to remember to tell my wife not to burn my artwork, ever.
There's something odd going on with youtube. Yours is the third comment I would have sworn I had already replied to, but my masters disagree. So, belatedly, thanks a lot.
@petebeard no problem, I'm just happy to be here
Could you possibly do a video on Norm Saunders? His work on the Wacky Packages is worth it.
Hello, and I have covered Norm Saunders previously, of not in as much detail. He featured in my overview of pulp fiction art video and also in unsung heroes 15. But like others he's on the list (eventually) for a solo video too.
@@petebeard Thank you so much for the reply. I will do a much deeper dive into your past work. I must say you do a stellar job, and your content is so professional. Keep up the great work, it's much appreciated.
Great vid!
Many thanks for your appreciation again. And of course I'm delighted to hear you are exploring the older content too.
Beautiful work. You made a video maybe 3 or 4 years ago and i can't remember the guys name but he did some really cool paintings of a sort of cross section of a pond, with a guy standing in it i think, maybe some fish as well, can't remember, do you know who i mean?.
Thanks for your appreciation. I've been ransacking what's left of my memory banks about the image you mention, but it doesn't ring any bells, I'm sorry to say. The best I can suggest is that you look at the thumbnails of the videos made back then to see if you recognize the technique, at least. If you have success, please let me know - I'm intrigued.
Have you ever done a video on Steele Savage?
He appears (admittedly only briefly) in unsung heroes of illustration 32. I may well return to him for a solo spot but I should warn you he'll be joining a long queue.
@@petebeard Thanks! I'll check it out and wait for the solo feature.
These illustrators are the real artists that should be celebrated. Their body of work puts the Masters to shame. Where are their museums? (Except here at Pete's)
Thanks a lot for your support and comment. I know there are some museums dedicated to illustration or particular illustrators but nowhere near enough of them.
This was such a joy to watch. What a talent! Thank you!
Thanks again for your comment, and I'm glad you appreciate Watson's work.
Hello and I'm sorry but I was sure I had already replied to your comment. TH-cam disagree, apparently, so once more thanks a lot for your appreciation.
@@petebeard...joy and art is not celebrated enough, sometimes...just saying...😊
Os ilustradores são os mais criativos.
Concordo plenamente consigo. Obrigado pelo comentário.
I didn't know Emma Watson was an artist!
Sadly, if you do a google image search for Emmett Watson you get more pictures of that anorexic ingrate than you do of Watson's art. This world is a cultural toilet.
@@petebeard....😅😅😅😅...
What an amazing artist ... cannot believe his wife burnt his painting, terrible!
Thanks for the comment. I think the poor woman was doing it because she genuinely believed if tarnished his reputation. But it's still a great pity.
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Alas, seldom has one of your fine illustrators been so thoroughly bypassed by the trends of time. Patriotism and the military? What are you, some kind of right-wing extremist? The family? No this-or-that-normative work, you bigot! Hunting? We know what certain small groups have made of celebrations of that. And magazines of any description? They've become excuses for ads. We could miss the pulp detectives, though in real life most of a PI's income was generated by obtaining evidence of infidelity for divorce cases. Nonetheless, I remember Argosy, and applaud your celebration of Mr. Watson!
Thanks as ever, and I was particularly pleased to create this video with the help of Watson's grandson. It gave me more insight into his actual life than most of the other subjects I've covered.
@@petebeard...excellent...😊
Thanks
You're welcome.