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[@johngraham4053]

Stanley Roy Badmin, such wonderful landscape art, you feel you could walk right through them. Thank you another superb presentation.

[@WendyW123]

I particularly liked the work of Badmin too. Probably because I am drawn to naive art, although his work appears borderline at times. Never heard of him prior to Pete's video.

[@petebeard]

Hello and Badmin - and some of his contemporaries - really did capture the rural aspects of Britain well. I like the fact that they are faithful depictions but don't set out to mimic photography.

[@dbensdrawinvids8390]

Oh man, Baumhofer's stuff is the pinnacle of the pulps! Absolutely spectacular! More people should know his name!

[@petebeard]

Hello again and I'm glad you approve. And you'll probably be happy to know that more like Baumhofer are coming in future instalments.

[@TheSabuArt]

This series is a treasure, I've discovered so many artists and found so much inspiration with each new entry, thank you for all the work you put into these.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation of the channel - it means a lot to me.

[@mijiyoon5575]

The *Doc Savage* covers & the British *countryside* paintings were beautiful w/great perspective THX *Pete*

[@petebeard]

Hello and I'm pleased you enjoyed some of the work on offer. I find Badmin's views of rural England very calming.

[@Borella309]

As always Pete, another fantastic video to spoil us! Could easily get lost in one of Badmin's beautiful panoramas and probably wouldn't care to be found! Thanks Pete.

[@petebeard]

A few others have commented on Badmin's landscapes and I must say I agree wholeheartedly. Some of it still exists I'm glad to say.

[@sandwish3978]

I always look forward to these videos from you. Cheers for the great watch as always :)

[@petebeard]

Hello and it's always gratifying to know that viewers appreciate what I'm doing here. Thanks a lot.

[@WendyW123]

Another interesting and well researched compilation. Thank you Pete, it's like having the York notes to a book. Consise and leaves you wanting to jot down the names of artists.

[@petebeard]

Hello again, and thanks as ever. That's a pretty good analogy about what I'm doing. These little features are fairly superficial and I always hope viewers will try to find out more about thoase they like best.

[@CFinch360]

When you say 'that's all for this episode" I'm crying 'nooooooo' !!! Please post another one soon, they are endlessly fascinating.

[@petebeard]

Hi again and that's a very nice way to put your appreciation. The bad news is I turn them around as fast as I can (hopefully without compomising quality), but the good news is that what I lack in speed I hope to make up for with endurance.With luck many more to come.

[@TheMarkEH]

Hi Pete, another fantastic episode. I especially liked the works of Badmin, which seemed as detailed as photographs but with far more soul. Thanks for all of the work that you put in to create these awesome videos.

[@petebeard]

Hello and I never get tired of appreciative comments. Badmin seems to have been just one of a group of British illustrators who produced a peculiar hybrid of realism with a mannered technique, and I agree the results are extremely striking.

[@mikedirle520]

There is nothing more exciting than to see another invitation to one of your "Illustration Classes." I never watch them just once! Tnx!

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks a lot for your continued appreciation. And I'm glad to say you're not the only viewer watching more than once.

[@garyprice6504]

Baumhofer’s work is gloriously charged with earthy passion. Its great how a picture’s composition can lead you through musk and lavender.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for the comment.

[@LamentationsofSummer]

I've always wanted to learn more about the art history of illustrators. Your channel is giving me the education I've always desired. You're a treasure and I can't thank you enough for your efforts!

[@petebeard]

Hello and I'm bowled over by the generosity of your comment about my channel. It really is very rewarding to know that viewers such as yourself value what Im doing.

[@LimesRickie]

Wonderful series. Am enjoying it so much .. Thank You!

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your supportive comment. It's good to know viewers appreciate the channel content.

[@Weatherhill1]

Thank you again for all the work you put into each & every one of your videos & for keeping these imaginative artists in the light. Always the best! ~ Peace

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks as ever for your continued support. Positive viewer feedback is always appreciated.

[@naynaynay324]

These uploads are so good I want to savour them by wacthing just one illustrator at the time and then come back to watch another.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for your positive comment. It's good to know the channel is appreciated.

[@jerrystaley1563]

#71 Just had to comment on the Norwegian artist Ringval Blix: His chilling sketch of Himmler, with his death's head badged SS cap, glares at death itself with its own peaked cap emblazoned with a cunning Himmler-esque badge. Thankfully, you also included the much warmer scenes of Essex by Stanley Badmin. They reminded me of my years in Essex (1955-58) when my dad was stationed at RAF Wethersfield and we lived in the little town of Sible Hedingham. Warm memories to offset Blix's bleak war years. Another great episode. Thanks again. JJS

[@petebeard]

Hello again, and I must say it's a real pleasure to have your comments about the various illustrators who feature in the series. It seems that you respond positively to a wide range of styles and subject matter - and that I hope mirrors my own eclectic outlook. Thanks a lot.

[@kmg3658]

I sure do enjoy these...Thank You Pete Beard.

[@petebeard]

Hi and many thanks for the encouraging comment.

[@Mountlougallops]

Thanks again for singing for the talented artists who deserve to be recognized. And thanks for delighting your followers here. We appreciate your research and your gift of this beauty for us to enjoy at the touch of a play button ▶️ is the coolest art education I can imagine.

[@petebeard]

Hello and my thanks to you for your continued appreciation. I may not have the biggest number of subscribers but they do seem to be pretty loyal. It's a good feeling.

[@simonward-horner7605]

Thanks Pete, I'd never heard of Blix nor Sauvage, marvellous stuff! Badmin's gorgeous work rings a bell, I'm sure I've seen it before when I was a lad, but this was a revelation, I'll have to find more. Again, your videos inform and inspire.

[@petebeard]

Hi again and it's good to know you continue to find new illustrators of interest through the channel. Blix was new to me too.

[@ValkiriStudio]

I love these videos! I learn so much about interesting artists I wasn't familiar with, thank you for making them. I had the pleasure of studying at Pratt Institute as well, it was some of the best years of my life.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your favourable comment about the channel. And many thanks also for the highly enjoyable time I just spent looking at and admiring your illustration work. How you manage to get such a convincingly naturalistic look with digital metgods seems like some sort of alchemy to me. Brilliant work and I hope you are enjoying deserved success with it.

[@wildfood1]

I really love the pulp illustrators. Thank you!

[@petebeard]

As usual you are very welcome. There are plenty more in the pipeline, and with luck I'll complete my epic history of pulp sometime in the next few months. Busy busy busy...

[@Ellesmere888]

Part 71 already ... an amazing feat Mr. Beard. I really enjoyed this quartet and am always stunned at the people I haven't heard off. Some very fine talent there.

[@petebeard]

Hi again and it's good to know that viewers enjoy - and appreciate finding out about - these illustrators. I'm seriously impressed by Blix's early work and I ony found out about him recently.

[@Ellesmere888]

@@petebeard I had never heard of him and was quite taken aback by his work.. A very nice discovery for me. Thank you.

[@possiblecat]

Thankyou for this; I learn more and more every time I visit your channel, or site, or whatever KZbin calls it. Baumhofer and Badmin must have had prodigious energy; I don't know how they managed to create so many wonderful images. It's interesting that Baumhofer's work for the pulps seems livelier and more compelling than a lot of the photography we see in contemporary news magazines or on book covers. And Badmin's vision may smooth over reality to provide images of an alternative England, but it's one that offers a refuge from the messier, more troublesome aspects of modern life. I don't know if that's a virtue or not, but his work is very pleasing.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks a lot for your comment and insights. Regarding Badmin's ideal Britain I must admit that's the onefor me. It's tempting to consider it's just nostalgic but I'm happy to say quite a lot of this country still looks - and acts - like the world he conjured.

[@Tanzotown]

A wonderful quartet Pete... I loved your phrase “deliberately naïve“... sometimes when you have no use of words, you just have to hit people over the head! What could be more wonderful than a huge museum devoted only to illustrators ....no “fine art“ allowed. You have already done all the legwork…Let us all imagine what that could look like and how this wonderful part of our art history could be best displayed. Or maybe you already know of museums devoted to this mission? Best to you and your noble work as always

[@petebeard]

Hello and there are some - but not enough - museums around the globe devoted to particular illustrators or types of illustration. I don't know your nationality but the USA is pretty good in that regard, and even have a national illustration museum. Europe is nothing like as good. Mucha in Prague, comics in Brussels and Angouleme and a few dedicated to specific illustrators like the Heath Robinson Museum outside London. But doing what I do is a small attempt to try to create an online museum in the absence of the real thing for many of those featured.

[@Tanzotown]

@@petebeard I am in the US, in the west. I will start looking around and posting as I find little such gems. There is reportedly a huge collection of Leyendecker originals in a museum in the perhaps unlikely town of Stockton, California. Hope to investigate soon and report back.

[@albertcscs]

Another wonderful episode Pete. Sylvain Sauvage was know to Americans through his 4 books for the Limited Editions Club, including the Cyrano de Bergerac and up till a 1949 book I never heard of before, The Physiology of Taste, which sold for a whopping $25. I always liked Baumhofer, but always confused him with Kinstler, I never could tell them apart.

[@petebeard]

Hi again. And naturally enough it's good to know you're still enjoying the series. Frankly I struggle with many of the pulp/other magazine realists America seems to churn out with alarming frequency. I suppose that's one of my problems with painterly realism. I'll take Blix any day!

[@norbertpautner377]

One can't thank you enough for this series of illustrative geniuses and gems you’re putting together so regularly. It’s always a welcome 15 minute escape from my desk’s trivial tasks.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your particularly welcome comment. It's very encouraging.

[@susanhepburn6040]

Thank you so much, Pete! I particularly liked Blix and Badmin. Loved that Blix with Himmler and the skull!

[@petebeard]

Hello and your appreciation is most welcome. And those fellows would be my favourites of the quartet on display in this instalment toi. Badmin I knew from my childhood but Blix was entirely new.

[@dibujemaestro]

thank you for your hard work!!! Love all the unsung artists that you post!

[@petebeard]

Hi and that's always good to know so thanks a lot.

[@melizen2]

Thank you - your array of artists always gives our visual sense a feast of pleasures - and thank you always for the music you choose for your backgrounds. I particularly enjoyed the "Frenchness" of Sauvage's Bergerac illustrations - and the marvelously lurid pulp pictures of Baumhofer. Badmin's pictures of the countryside remind me of Alison Uttley's and Flora Lewis' descriptions of hamlet life ~

[@petebeard]

Hello again and it's good to know you're sticking with the channel. I like to think the videos provide visual variety. And oh yes the British countryside -always works for me and some of it is still like that I'm glad to say.

[@johncollado1151]

Hi Pete.... Baumhofer takes the cake in this one. His style is my favorite even though they are oils, a medium that I never got a handle on. Thanks again for another great video.

[@petebeard]

Hello John - yes that was a foregone conclusion really. I'm more Sauvage and Blix.

[@danielkillackey5536]

Love this channel. Thank you so much for doing these!

[@petebeard]

Hello and I'm very glad to hear it. Your appreciation is very welcome.

[@futuristica1710]

Wow! Blix’ work is amazing!

[@petebeard]

Hello and I agree totally. Funnily enough you're the only one who has commented specifically about his work. It's criminal that he isn't better known.

[@Banner_Bearer_of_Eternity]

Thank you Pete! Just love to discover Badwin's illustrations! After some meditation over them one would come to conclusion that they're much more coplicated than one could initially think.

[@petebeard]

Hello and I'm glad you like Badmin's work. There were others around the same time in Britain who worked in a similar way, and I hope to feature more as the series continues.

[@TheMikester307]

Oh, this was excellent! (As always!) I know I've seen Baumhofer's work, the others I'm not so sure of! Thanks so much!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks as usual. I do like to mix things up so there are usually a couple even those quite sreeped in all things illustrative - including me - can find something new.

[@TheKevphil]

Thanks, Pete! Another great roundup of artists!

[@petebeard]

Hi again and thanks again. A terrifyingly large number of others still to feature...

[@justicecommander9455]

Nice episode, Blix style is pretty llamative and I just love the way those old illustrations are colored.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment. I agree about the quality of Blix's work - what a draughtsman.

[@johnmorgan5495]

Brilliant work , thanks Pete.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and my ongoing thanks for your ongoing appreciation.

[@irangel1958]

Thank you, always a refreshing interlude and always leaves me looking forward to the next video.

[@petebeard]

Thanks a lot and I really like the expression 'refreshing interlude'.

[@farmerfox3332]

Great video. I truly look forward to each installment. Thank you for your passion for the arts.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for sticking with the channel. It's great to have viewers who continue to find the material interesting.

[@michaels7889]

A fascinating group Pete. Nostalgia doesn't really suit me, having not a great deal to be nostalgic about but the Badmin took me back to some well remembered scenes and also his illustrations of them (though I had no recall of their author's name). Blix is particularly interesting and, like Badmin, the Sauvage presentation took me a little less far into the past with his illustrations of French literature. It is good to be reminded that these illustrators had names (I'm afraid I am the same with actors!). Your themes are always presented in such a thoroughly professional way but never stuffy. Like so many on these comments, I continue to enjoy them. They lighten my mornings when I have the peace and time to watch. This is a really good medium. Though you say superficial your skill in the commentaries is unusual on KZbin in the way it presents so much with such concision. Salient. Thank you! (Sorry; a bit long winded)

[@michaels7889]

I mean that I am long winded not you!

[@petebeard]

Hello again, and although judging by many comments I get from older viewers of the video series there is a strong 'memory lane' component to the channel. It has that effect on me too. But it's not the reason for featuring these illustrators. I just think it's borderline criminal that we have allowed them to become less than footnotes, compared to 'real' artists. Either way I'm really grateful you appreciate what I'm doing.

[@michaels7889]

@@petebeard The nostalgia element is not the most important for me. It is the way you have enticed me into a new field of interest. I was never afraid of books without pictures but have also greatly enjoyed illustrated works without thinking too much about the illustrators. Now I am aware of that error in my ways!

[@damogranheart5521]

For Christmas year before last I was given a Treasury of Golden Books Christmases. For the first time I was able to find the names of the people who did the illustrations that intrigued me as a child. One of the nicest presents that I have ever received

[@petebeard]

Hello again and that's a pleasant personal story. In Britain Little Golden books weren't popular - I'm not sure they were even published here. But we had our own versions of those books and they made a profound impression on many of us postwar kids as we grew up.

[@emptyentertainments7914]

Thanks Pete, excellent as always.

[@petebeard]

Hi and thanks as usual.

[@davewalter1216]

What a wonderful resource is this site, Mr Beard. Thanks.

[@petebeard]

Hello, and thanks for the comment. Music to my ears.

[@esbenlash9968]

Loving this series

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. Comments such as yours keep me motivated.

[@johannsmithe2570]

Good to see another Unsung Heros. Thanks, Pete 4:00 ...

[@petebeard]

All part of the service..

[@johannsmithe2570]

@@petebeard ahhh, Pete da Man who wears the Star full service Patreon Station 😁 Yea, Blix can draw. Sort of a cross between Lyonel Feininger's comics and a lighter side of Egon Schiele. His 4:00 is funnier than Che Guevara wearing a Bart Simpson t-shirt (at a time when the only face on t-shirts other than Che's was an occasional sickly pale pimpled Alfred E. Neuman "Sit on It". I know, dat ain't right, no.) Blix's father Elais' photo looks like he could play Vincent von Gogh with the forehead, brow and beard. Are all Europeans related to each other? Badmin is good. Getting acclimatized to his uneven work of buildings, leafless trees reminiscent of folk Croatian painting, John Constable and other's themes. Sanderson's book "Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City" with its panoramic perspectives is more home to me. Guess, we like what we're familiar with.

[@PeteLoughlin]

Thank you Pete.

[@petebeard]

Hello and the feeling is mutual.

[@robertmulherine8195]

Your channel is superb. Thank you so much.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the encouragement and appreciation.

[@robertmulherine8195]

@@petebeard No problem. Keep up the great work.

[@rongray655]

So many great artists I've never heard of . Fantastic channel.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the favourable comment. And I had to check your work out online - great stuff and I hope you are finding success in this far from easy world.

[@blank557]

I'd take Baumhofer illustration over any photograph/photoshop cover today. Magazine publishers have replaced graphic imagination with dead realism.

[@wynnschaible]

If it's any consolation, you can say the same thing about the music industry!

[@petebeard]

Hello and you won't get any argument from me. I don't blame photographers (well not that much) but I do blame lazy art directors and designers who go for the easy option

[@anniebooo]

Thank you, a very well made presentation. All the best! Annie

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thabks for your comment.

[@IdeaRefinery]

Thanks again Pete! Please keep these coming.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for your appreciation. I hope to keep making them for some time yet.

[@errolfellows409]

It's a whole new world for me! Thanks, again, and, here it comes . . . APSACA!!

[@petebeard]

Hi again. I'll have to work on a similar reply.

[@wynnschaible]

Ah, the pulps and Argosy! I think the movies learned a few things about choreographed action scenes and dramatic closeups from them!

[@petebeard]

Hello and you're right there. Framing is everything. With luck I'll complete my epic history of pulp art video in a few months' time. And here I was wondering how I would fill my rmaining years after retirement...

[@wynnschaible]

@@petebeard Your second career! and may it be more fulfilling and successful than your first!

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

Top drawer as always!! "Exlex"...🤣🤣🤣

[@petebeard]

Hi and thanks, and I had to voice that name more than once to keep the schoolboy laughter out.

[@mikebutler3263]

What lovely series this is, many thanks.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for the comment. I'm glad you're enjoying it.

[@iangillham9647]

Beautiful stuff. Thanks again.

[@petebeard]

Hi and my thanks as usual.

[@anilkumarn8879]

Inspiring n great,,,,,,,,thank you Pete beard

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment - always appreciated.

[@pprehn5268]

Definitely another gem of diverse styles🛐

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks again. I try to keep this series as varied as I can and sometimes it works better than others.

[@vyvienvp3413]

Very lovely compilation

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your positive response to this video.

[@danielhamilton4269]

THANKS PETE!!!

[@petebeard]

Hello and I'm glad you liked it.

[@joedez454]

Another great one Pete. Thank you!

[@petebeard]

Hello and it seems viewers are generally still happy with the content. Plenty more on the way I hope.

[@PaulMcCaffreyfmac]

Thanks yet again for these treats.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for continuing ro watch the channel. I'm pleased to say I seem to be getting quite a few viewers who stick with it

[@glynstimpson]

Wonderful video thanks

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your positive comment.

[@mexicanusrex9418]

Amazing those prints by Badin reminds me of the great dutch illustrator Anton Pieck. Have you done one on Anton Piek?

[@johannsmithe2570]

You'll be interested to see Unsung Heros of Illustration 44 with a segment on Anton Pieck. Also, Comiclopedia has a nice biography on Anton Pieck along with other fellow country persons of Anton Pieck.

[@petebeard]

Hello and I see Johann has beaten me to it. 44 is where he appears and you're right - there are some strong similarities.

[@davidaguirreroblesgil9385]

whats the name of the illustration of the hero riding horseback in the introduction ?

[@petebeard]

Hello and it doesn't have a name. But if you google Walter M. Baumhofer the image is on the internet at good resolution.

[@SWilkin676]

Love this series. Do you ever watch Antiques Roadshow UK? Since I've been watching your series, I notice all the times a relative or friend of an illustrator brings some of his works for evaluation.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. That isnt a TV show I've seen but maybe I should. It never occurred to me that illustrators' work might put in an appearance.

[@SWilkin676]

@@petebeard Probably every 3rd or 4th episode. I only notice since I started watching your series. Sometimes they have sketches etc that might help you establish methods. Phillip Gough: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kGKoinSYhKymqNE

[@petebeard]

Thanksa lt for that link - I'd never encountered the work of Philip Gough and now he'll be included in a future instalment. Lovely work.

[@SWilkin676]

@@petebeard Cool!

[@AX-po7ej]

Love that Blix - thanks !

[@petebeard]

Hello and me too. How a talent like that gets so buried is a mystery to me.

[@mhaipeter42]

dear pete, as always: great content !

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for the comment.

[@kidmohair8151]

well Mr Beard...I'm baaack! (that's for the algo-guy...the comment I mean)

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks for watching.

[@Ghostbore23]

Is there a database of what illustrators are covered in what episodes somewhere?

[@petebeard]

Hello and yes there is - well, sort of. If you scroll down the description box of unsung heroes 70 there's an index of who features in which instalment in the order they appear for videos 1 to 50. It can just be copy/pasted into any document format. I'll do another for later videos when I can find the time.

[@Ghostbore23]

@@petebeard thanks! I really enjoy these videos.

[@Ghostbore23]

Oh,you just did that this month; I promise it was a coincidence and I wasn't trying to nag you

[@petebeard]

Not a problem - I didn't think you were and it's something that's needed doing for some time now. I'll update it at intervals and announce in the description box.

[@zookatone]

3:57 made me laugh

[@petebeard]

Me too.

[@Juan_Rojo]

bellisimo

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for the comment.