UNSUNG HEROES OF ILLUSTRATION 81
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- Putting together this instalment was a particularly frustrating experience. All four of the illustrators yielded a larger than usual volume of good quality imagery, but only grudging amounts of meaningful information. So there are plenty of other examples to be found that aren't shown here if you are keen to see more. In order of appearance they are:
Walt McDougall, Rie Cramer, Jacques Touchet and C.C. Beall.
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I believe this series of videos are not only good, but are terribly important in terms of the preservation of art history. There are so many incredible illustrators that are flying under the internet's radar! Wonderful research as always. If I may ask, Professor, I'd love to hear your opinion on the illustrators Masao Saito and Patrick Nagel.
Hello, and many thanks for your positive opinion of the channel. I do hope it will help preserve some of these great talents for the future. You may or may not have noticed that I try to keep my personal opinions of individual illustrators out of the equation, and have covered many that personally I have little time for or struggle to relate to - but I hope it doesn't come across that way. I had never heard of either of the illustrators you put forward, and if you want me to, I will give a personal opinion, but you might not like what I say. I really don't want to offend a dedicated viewer.
Many thanks...I only thought of the book in response to your video on Heinrich Clay, very similar. Love your channel...so many phenomenal artists lost to the mists of time.
man i would pay money to get your series about illustrators on a dvd in hd or a single download file or even a an ebook style lexicon with audio. one of the great channels on youtube.
Hello and thanks a lot for that. A few viewers have urged me to re-format the series, and I have no objection to the idea, or the money it might bring in. But making the videos occupies so much of my waking hours I don't know when I'll ever find the time.
I never realized how many great illustrators there have been that I've never heard of nor seen any work by.
Hello and thanks for the comment, which nicely encapsulates the reason for the channel.
Your work is so engrossing that 15 minutes flies by in what seems like seconds. Thanks for another wonderful episode Pete.
You can always watch them again, which is what I do. This is a goldmine. We cannot over-saturate ourselves, lol.
@@twistoffate4791 Yes, a gold mine is a good description.
Hello again and I'm very glad to hear you say that. It's rather disappointing that on average the watchtime for any given video is approximately half its actual length.
@@petebeard It is not a reflection of the quality of your work. I suspect that it shows there are still philistines around who have randomly hopped onto your channel and then hopped off again. Take heart that you have a strong following of aesthetes who love your work. And their number is steadily growing.
@@TheMarkEH agree 100%!
This series is brilliant. I have lived with many of these illustrators for 66 years and had previously just taken them for granted as part of the cultural background. This has made me notice many of them for the first time. I say again, brilliant.
Hello and your comment echoes my own pleasure in discovering more of these illustrators than I'd happily admit to for the first time in a life dedicated to all things illustrative.
Pete, Mc Dougall at 1:28 minute and Beall at 12:28 are incredible art of your "unsung" videos.....thanks for your permanent search!
Hello gabriel, and I'm glad you enjoyed them. My own personal pick would be Touchet though. Just my kind of illustrator.
@@petebeard watching your videos it'so difficult to understand wich illustrator - with our feelings- is modern or not....I think that McDougall and Beall are totally actual...in concep and style...may be they are timeless...
Thanks for letting us know there's more to see elsewhere of our favorites! I enjoyed the charm of Rie Cramer and appreciate her utmost bravery equally. But Jacques Touchet wins first prize for his easy but effective drawing of humans, ranging from the bulbous-nosed, eye-popping to those quite realistic and all in the same scene! Says he wasn't concerned about consistency, so why should we. I also really like seeing more watercolor, which Beall was a master of, no doubt there. That said, pochoir, or stencil method, was a class I never experienced and wish I had. Love those blocks of color, like tulips in the spring! 🌷
Hello and I could have sworn I;d already replied to your comment, but yet again youtube disagrees. Anyhow, I'm very grateful for your appreciation as ever.
Thanks for another mini-masterpiece!
And thanks for your comment.
Marvelous - LOVE those Beall "pulp" illustrations ~ Thank you, as always - I most enjoyed the Touchet works - these illustrators head right for the senses, don't they? So I feel free to declare my "likes" without having to explain ~ excellent background music which weaves itself into your presentation so effectively ~
Hello and to my amazement you are the only viewer so far to single out Touchet's work as a personal favourite. For me he is one of the greatest discoveries I've made since I started the channel. I could - and do - look at his work for the longest time and lament my own mediocrity.
Another great episode. Thank you!
Thanks - it's appreciated.
C.C. Beall had a wonderful aptitude for telling a complete story with a single illustration. Great work!!
Hello again and I totally agree. It's one of the defining features of great illustration, I think. The old saying 'a picture is worth 1000 words' has always resonated with me.
It's amazing how many illustrators have covered Alice in Wonderland & Don Quixote. Because I like Edward Gorey & Charles Addams, I enjoyed McDougall's strange beasts. I have a soft spot in my heart for Rie Cramer's children's work, and can't get enough of the style C.C. Beal successfully commands. I watched this one straight through three times, and will no doubt check it out again. Thanks for your hard work.
Hello and I wish every viewer felt the same way - it would have a serious impact on my numbers.
You did it again Pete! Incredible artists brought back to life. Thank you!
Hello and thanks a lot for the comment. This series is far less popular than I'd like it to be, compared with the profiles of individual illustrators and genre-based videos. So your appreciation is partcularly valued.
Thank you Pete! All featured artists are amazing!
Hello and I'm glad to hear you say that.
Your series continues to astound me. So much to learn, so many talents. Thanks
Hello and my gratitude for your ongoing support and appreciation.
*Thanks* Pete for another Unsung Heros.
Hello and I'm on standby for more Goupil esoterica.
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ha, perhaps after a few more viewings but for now on a 'Oh, Be Joyful' rating this is a slow, slow burn meant to be appreciated leisurely.
11:34 when billboards were hand painted it was amazing to watch how the craftsperson free handled the brush. And at that height.
It takes skill to, say, paint a canvas larger than you and keep things visually and spatially intact.
Hi Pete.... Beall takes the cake in this one, love his watercolors. As I remember, watercolors were my first entry into color work in my early years. Thanks again.
Hi John. How Beall controls the medium with such precision without benifit of an inked line is beyond me.
Hello Pete, another excellent piece of illustration history. I really like watercolor and I am glad to see you including artists who work in this medium.
Hello and thanks. It was my medium of choice in what passed for my early career, but always relied on the reassurance of an inked line. Beall's control of watercolour is enviable, to say the least.
Thanks for bringing us so much little known, huge talent to our notice. Much respect for finding and researching these artists, along with your wonderful production values!
Hello again and thanks a lot for that. I think I'm starting to get the hang of it now...
Thank you. Your videos continue to enchant and educate. So many unsung artists, not unsung anymore.
Hello and thanks a lot. Sadly they are still unsung - but at least not as unsung as they were before...
I am in love with Jacques Touchet! thank you for these videos and introducing us to so many great artist
Hello and you are obviously a person of taste. He's a real personal favourite of mine and much under-appreciated.
wonderful as always!
It is truly a pleasure to watch each of your episodes, they transport me back to my childhood to the books and magazines that riveted me back then. Thank you!
Hello and many thanks for your appreciation of my work on the channel. It's great to know I'm connecting with viewers.
I can only add a "Me too!" to the accolades already offered for your amazing videos! (I watched an earlier on AGAIN tonight!). Tnx, Mr. Beard!
Thanks as usual. I like to think they stand repeated viewing by the more discerning viewer!
Lured by a favourite tale and the appealing depiction of one of the characters therein, I yet again dive into the visual delights as presented by Pete Beard. Entertaining education - thank you
Thanks again for your commitment to the channel. And if I may shamelessly plug another video there is one devoted exclusively to the many versions of Don Quixote created over the centuries.
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Plug away! What I find so very entertaining and amazing is the individual and varying interpretation of characters by different artists.It is interesting comparing these to one's own mental picture. I am also looking forward to the Shakespeare episode - almost as if one was seeing actors bringing the characters to life
Thank you!
Thank you for more delight today!
And thanks for the comment. Always appreciated.
Just simply, thank you, again.
Hello again and thanks once more for the appreciation.
As usual, excellent research and lovely narrative. Thank you, sir.
Hello and thanks a lot for the positive review.
This is wonderful! I hadn't heard of McDougall either! I'd bet anything I've seen some of Beall's work in old paperback covers. Your work and effort are appreciated, Pete!
Hello again, and thaks a lot for your continuing appreciation. This is a voyage of discovery I never anticipated.
@@petebeard I look at how many are in this series and I marvel! And I'm looking forward to your series on pulp artists!
Another sterling exhibition of 4 talents I'd never heard of! And as another of your commenters noted, the redoubtable Miss Dee and Sr. Quixano continue to keep their attraction for illustrators. Deservedly. One of my prize possessions is an 1880s folio edition of Don Quixote featuring the complete set of Doré illustrations. $2 at the closeout of a local old-book store! The binding's seen better days but so have I...
Hello and that Doré collection must be a real sight to behold. On that subhect I find myself wondering why I seem to be the only person on planet earth who thinks his engraver(s) deserve a fair share of the credit. Such is life, I suppose.
@@petebeard Not the only! I have another Doré. the Divinna Commedia, from 1947. Dover (a quality house!) put out a version perhaps 10 years ago. The reproduction of the pictures is not nearly as good as the 1947!
Another very interesting video. Thanks.
...and thanks for your continued appreciation.
nice video with the presentation of very interesting illustrators..thank you for this work
Hello and thanks for the positive comment.
Well done as always! I wonder, have you seen the illustrations of C.W. Anderson? He illustrated mostly books for young people about horses, and his illustrations and stories about horses were popular in the 60s. Mostly pencil, I think, and were beautifully done.
Hello and thanks for the comment. And thanks for C. W. Anderson - a name I was unfamiliar with. A casual google search indicates he would make a suitable feature so I'll add him to the list and hope I can find enough high resolution images and at least a little biography. I should warn you the list of those still to feature in the series is alarmingly long so don't hold your breath. Thanks again and if you have any more I'd be pleased to hear about them.
2:37 ... Yikes!! This could easily have been a card in the Magic:The Gathering game!!
Another great offering, Mr. Beard! Thank you!!!
Thanks a lot for the comment. I'm not familiar with that - I'll have a look.
Dear Sir,
Thanks for another great video. I wonder how you proceed to do the research for each illustrator.
I was happily enjoying the video and having a beer, but, at the mention of Gabriel Chevallier's Clochemerle, i don't know exactly why, i had to make a pause...
Cheers from Brazil!
Hello and many thanks for your positive response. Although I use my own collection of books on occasion, most of what I write comes from the internet. I usually start with wikipedia and then dig deeper for other more reliable sources such as the archives of libraries and museums. But with this series I don't actually have much to say about the illustrators themselves. Im far more interested in their style and technique, and gather dates of publication (which can be tracked down online) to plot a career timeline.
As a biologist, I can't help but be impressed by many of the illustrations of the animals that you have been showing - many very naturalistic, but even the fantastical ones often seemingly based on reality. I streamed a film the other night, 'The Gentleman', and the study of the McConaughey character was adorned with several large format colour plates of insects. I knew of Audubon's birds etc. and the fascination with all exotica during the later stages of the Empire, so there was a market for good biological illustration. I wonder, have you come across illustrators that had a hand on each side of the technical vs popular press, perhaps drawing inspiration from one side to the other? Anyway, thanks for the highly entertaining and informative videos.
Hello and many thanks for your comment. I think the most famous person to straddle two entirely different disciplines was Edward Lear. Most know him for the nonsense rhymes and doodle drawings. But his wildlife lithographs were something else altogether. There are a few others dotted around the unsung hero series but I've made so many I couldnt remember where they might be lurking, The Detmold brothers spring to mind though. All I can say is watch this space...
While not in Unsung Heros honorable mention to Ernst Haeckel and DA'rcy Wentworth Thompson ("Growth and Form")* around the time of the Golden Age of Illustration. Both were influential to illustrators.
Later, Eric Sloane author of the Americana book series was a "meteorologist". Roger Tory Peterson and David Allen Sibley's orthinology reference books.
Earlier botanists such as William Bartram.
* Thompson's morphological grids may have been an influence on Walt Disney's character proportions used in his templates for staff animators. Eadweard Muybridge photography also.
I'd love to see a video on one of my favorite illustrators and one of America's unsung hero's of watercolor. Wilmot Emerton Heitland.
Hello and that's a name I had never come across so many thanks for suggesting him. I've just had a quick look on google and there seem to be quite a few pictures, but virtually zero biography. But I'll dig deeper and hopefully be able to feature him in a future instament.
@@petebeard thanks a lot. I know he was a teacher at PAFA long ago. I have a few pix and an original I bought. I appreciate your interest.
@@danthomas6587 Hello again, and I thought I'd update you with the bad news regarding W. E. Heitland. As I suspected there is only a record of his dates and location of birth and death. And although there are some great pictorial examples, most are of his art rather than illustration, and not many are of usable resolution. What a pity. This isn't the first time I've encountered this problem and it won't be the last either.
@@petebeard thanks again for taking an interest even though there just wasn't enough biography to make a video from. Much appreciated.
Oh wow, I see some McDougall influence in Jim Woodring’s comics, I think!
Ah influence! I believe the expression 'what goes around comes around' is apt in so much of illustration's history..
I salute your restraint. I would have taken off enough wood to build a dead hedge. ;-)
Thanks for your comment. But for the life of me I have no idea what it refers to. Any chance you could elaborate?
Sorry.... wrong video!
one day I shall approach these in chronological order.
I *think* this is where I left off...
I don;t mind what order they are watched in - as long as they are watched and appreciated.
@@petebeard and they are!
I have a nephew who is an illustrator/silk screen artist.
I have sent your channel in his direction.
he says it looks great.
Clochemerle was also made into a series (ITV I think) in the early 70's, or late 60's....
Hello and yes I remember it being on. I can't remember much about it though,
It was great fun, I would love to see it again! I just checked it was 1972, Galton and Simpson no less, I would have put it quite a bit later! Apparently it's on BBC DVDs.
Ugh, I had to change to buy original work from Rie Cramer. But I forgot and slept through the auction😩
Unfortunate indeed...
I don't know if he's unsung" but a video on Brad Holland would be interesting to me.
Hello and I'm familiar with his work, and admire it. But there are 2 obstacles in terms of me making a video. To the best of my knowledge he is much more an artist than an illustrator and i think i would struggle to find enough visual material relevant to this channel. And probably more importantly he has the misfortune to still be among the living, and I only deal with those long departed. Sorry.
Once again: You Sir; have BEDAZZLED ME! Bravo and Merci!!!! Gregg Oreo long beach CA State Unis
Hello Mr. Bates and thanks. But what's with the alias?
May 10th is a good day!
Thanks as usual.
Thankyou.
You're welcome
Mr. Beard, have you ever done a piece on the life of Palmer Cox and his Brownies?
Hello and no I haven't. There's no reason you should know this but I confine myself in this series to those born between 1850 and 1910. Unfortunately Palmer Cox was born too early to qualify. I know this may seem arbitrary on my part, but even with those limitations I've still got more illustrators to cover than I have already.
Can anyone help...an artist with a German name who drew pictures of humorous armour, weaponry, fortifications. I had a softback 'graphic novel' in the '80s There's one drawing of a Knight with a huge spike on his breastplate running towards his wife (with inevitable consequences). I can remember crazy layouts of fortifications. Going crazy trying to find out who he is.
Hello and this one has certainly got me stumped. Not a clue who it might be.
Ir appears that the Morgan Library & Museum in NYC may have a copy of "Croquis d'un prisonnier de guerre."
Hello and thanks for the information. There doesn't seem to be an online archive though.
@@petebeard No, alas! However, if the book is in decent condition, the library might be persuaded to send you some .pdf's? Of course, they might also require that a researcher perform the selection...I'd be happy to volunteer on my next trip to Manhattan!
@@clealinden7755 Hello again and thats very generous. But of course the video is uploaded and those nice people at youtube make it a total re-do if you want to add or take bits out. So I think it's probably best if we just forget the book might exist. To be honest, given the rather poor quality of the other book he published at that point it would almost certainly be a disappointment, compared to the glorious later stuff.
@@petebeard Understood! But it's an open offer :)
I haven't seen all of your videos, but I'm wondering if you ever covered Soviet illustrators/cartoonists?
Hello, and despite my best efforts it has proven particuarly difficult to find either visual evidence of good quality or biographical information about Soviet illustrators from the early 20th century. I have featured Lebedev, Deni, Nicouline (does he count?) and Rojankovsky (same). I know there are a couple more in thr pipeline too but I'm struggling to remember their names.
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With my love of pulp covers, I think we all know who my favorite of this set is. By the by, would you ever consider doing Rudy Nappi? He's a little late for your usual timeframe, mostly in the later 50's, but he made half his career off the Hardy Boys covers.
Hello and thanks as usual. And thanks for the name Rudy Nappi. As you point out he was unfortunately born too late to qualify for this series, but the good news is I can and will feature him in my multi-part extravaganza on the history of pulp art when - or should that be if? - I ever finish it. Much obliged.
Yet again I can see some other artist that might played a hand in influencing Herge in Jacques Touchet art.
Hello and yes, it's quite likely hergé would have been influenced by Touchet, among others. I know he was belgian but the style seems to have been as built into french illustration as realistic painting was into American illustration.
Similarly, when WWII prevented French children's books being shipped to Canada the Canadians developed their own children's books , so during WWII France cut off from American illustration imports developed their own illustration style. Granted Herge was drawing in the 1930s (influenced earlier by American Illustrators) the ligne claire style was popular in the 1950s.
Early 20th century Dutch print publishing and design was a major influence between Europe and the U.S.. Europeans seeing American graphics from books printed in the Netherlands would transform it into super-graphics which ironically the Americans would emulate. Case would be the 'architect' Le Corbusier after seeing the U.S. mid-west grain silos copied it into his building style and re-introduced it back to America when he came over the pond.
It went both ways. American bridge design was turned vertically into skyscraper structures while the Eiffel Tower's caternary curve structure is reminiscence of John A Roebling's suspension bridges.
Digression: Remember as a kid seeing a European printed Hoechst Pharmaceutical fine art calendar six colour printing for the first time. Amazing. The finer darker shadow tones were articulate in El Greco's portraits that you would appreciate the painting technique of "raking". Raking is a heavy impasto ridge of paint that when a side light casts shadows from the ridge onto the canvas surface an inverted double portrait is seen. Similiarily in 2D reversing the negative shadows for the positive highlights will give another portrait. In 1950s noir comics it was used suggestively to work around censorship.
1:26 reminiscent of Moebius design when he lived in Western America. Same for Maxfield Parrish.
Speaking of pharmaceuticals Albert Hoffman's white bicycle ride was a major influence on the 1960s San Francisco poster design.
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Gotta say, really nice concise one line sentence synopsis of American and French graphic style.
Are a couple of these retreads I. Sure I’ve seen them before.
Hello again and thanks for the comments. I'm fairly scrupulous (for me at least) about making sure I don't feature anyone in the series more than once. But it's more than possible some have appeared in other contexts, such as a feature about a particular genre or book. This may explain your feeling of deja vu.
@@petebeard No Problem anyway, I thought maybe they’d been covered in early days and maybe there was a problem with sound or something…I really enjoyed them. My internet failed as I was commenting (West Wales!) and so I didn’t think this truncated comment went up. Terrific stuff!
Suggestion for an Unsung Hero Illustrator
*Eric Sloane* (Everard Jean Hinrichs) 1905-1985
Website 'Weatherhillfarm' has information on Sloane who among various other accomplishments made thirty-eight books, researched and illustrated with his typeface.
Hello again and thanks for this. Never heard of the chap so I look forward to seeing what's what.
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Hello Pete
Thanks for considering looking at Sloane. In a way he was what the British countyside Illustrator poster artists, i.e. Railroad and Shell, were in spirit.
Perhaps it would be fun to do a complete presentation on the many British countryside posters shown previously.
Recently came across *Adolph Treidler* an illustrator who studied with Eric (Hinrich) Sloane's teacher John Sloan. Not suggesting a presentation but amusingly added the WOW girl to the list of the Gibson, It and other Girls of the Golden/Gilded Age of Illustration.
WOW (Women Ordance Workers of WWII). Babes with munitions posters. :0
Noticed on your Mucha, Kley, presentations they stuck a chord from viewers who grew up on Dover Publishing books from the 1960s. Dover made affordable reprints of art books. In Kley's case most likely reviving an interest in his drawings.
@@vincentgoupil180 Hello again and thanks but I've already got Treidler waiting in the wings. By the way the other day I added up those I've earmarked but not yet covered for the unsung series, and I reckon on current showing I'm about half way. Good lord almighty....
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... and, hello again Pete
Kinda like Disney's 'Sorcerer's Apprentice', one broom becomes two and two four.
Congratulations on your 'Mucha' 400k. Hopefully, 800k, 1,600k and on.
Mentioned Adolf Treidler* for his WOW women (a Christopher Walken "wow") and his tie-in with the New Rochelle Arts Association. As written, at one time 90% of the Saturday Evening Post Illustrations were denizens of New Rochelle, i.e. the Leyendecker brothers (and sister Augusta?), plus the kid who emulated Joe.
The NRAA tied-in with the Salmagundi Club and its spin off the Sewer Club, sort of a diminutive British Hellfire Club, with the architect Stanford White and Trial of the Century Evelyn Nesbit Thaw the first life Gibson Girl (hint, wink, nod, wink). Not quite an Unsung Hero but her image during court proceeding sold well over a million postcards.
So, in a word, click-bait.
Noticed including a Heinrich Kley image in the presentation's intial splash/title seems to bump up the views? The "1950s Illustrations" didn't hurt. Perhaps, a Golden Age "It Girl" espisode? Then again maybe a red coloured title page attracts viewers.
Hope that wasn't a wee bit erotic, er, esoteric. :)
* yea, Treidler is a blend of C.C. Phillips and other NRAA illustrators but I like his later Bermuda posters with their early morning long cast shadows. Does Manchester have shadows or it perpetually overcast?
(favorite line from the movie "Dark City" 1998 when the main character asks "Notice how it's always dark?").
*Appreciate* your work Pete. Always amazed when looking for a name in the list of Illustrators what a gold mine you created. *Thanks*
P.s.
If and when Triedler is presentated include his "The Girl He Left Behind Is Still Behind Him. She's a WOW." poster lovingly panning to her finger on the trigger, the ol' money on the boat.
Or, not.
Purely for esoteric ...esthetic appreciation.