UNSUNG HEROES OF ILLUSTRATION 75 & ARCHIVE 1 - 50

Four more overlooked talents for number 75...
Clarke Hutton, Charles Gesmar, Richard Floethe and Zoë Mozert
I know I promised 1 -75 but they wont fit. So I'll add 51 - 75 next time around. And if you just paste them into a document you can add more as I supply updates.
1 Willy Pogany, Arthur Szyck, Eugene Zimmerman, Harry Rountree.
2 Boris Artzybasheff, Einar Nerman, Maxfield Parrish.
3 Joseph Leyendecker, Francis Leyendecker, Clarence Lawson Wood, José Carlos.
4 Jessie Willcox Smith, Cheri Herouard, Kay Nielsen, H. M. Bateman.
5 Adolfo Hohenstein, René Bull, Umberto Brunellsechi, Leslie Thrasher, Joan Kiddell Monroe
6 Olaf Gulbransson, Clarence Coles Phillips, Antonio Rubino, Clifford Webb, Charles Folkard
7 Charles Livingston Bull, Rea Irvin, Nell Brinkley, Walter Trier, Gino Boccasile
8 Charles Robinson, Franklin Booth, Rafael de Penagos, Ruth Eastman, Eppo Doeve
9 Heinrich Kley, Henry Clive, Anne Harriet Fish, Fortunato Depero, Earl Oliver Hurst
10 Hermann Vogel, N. C. Wyeth, Alberto Fabio Lorenzi, Rockwell Kent, John Held Jr.
11 Howard Pyle, Arthur Ferrier, Gustaf Tenggren, Virginia Sterrett, Miguel Covarrubias
12 James Montgomery Flagg, Roger Broders, Enoch Bolles, Feodor Rojankovsky, Ralph Barton
13 Félix Lorioux, Fortunino Matania, John La Gatta, Edward McKnight Kauffer, Takeo Takei
14 Ivan Bilibin, Franz Wacik, Gluyas Williams, Ludwig Bemelmans, Robert Fawcett
15 André Hellé, John Bauer, Russell Patterson, Norman Saunders, Robert O. Reid
16 Artuš Scheiner, Frank Schoonover, Marcello Dudovich, Edward & Charles Detmold, Jan Marcin Szancer
17 John Hassall, Leonetto Cappiello, Frank Cheyne Papé, Gus Bofa, Mead Schaeffer
18 Frank Godwin, Dorothy Lathrop, Cyril Bouda, Edward Bawden, Al Parker
19 Charles Léandre, Vladimir Lebedev, Dean Cornwell, Joyce Mercer
20 Théophile Steinlen, Julius Klinger, Constantin Alajálov, Elmer Simms Campbell, Alex Raymond
21 Henri Gerbault, Kiichi Okamoto, Ilonka Karasz, Edward Ardizzone, Earle K. Bergey
22 Warwick Goble, Thomas Theodor Heine, Robert Lawson, Roger Duvoison, John Falter
23 George Ernest Studdy, René Vincent, Ernesto García Cabral (El Chango)
24 John S. Pughe, Helen Dryden, John Austen, Vernon Grant, René Gruau
25 Wanda Gag, Frederick Herrick, George Petty, Fritz Eichenberg
26 Cecil Aldin, Arthur Johnson, Frances Tipton Hunter, Harry Beckhoff
27 Alfred Garth Jones, Josef Lada, Neysa McMein, Edmond François Calvo
28 Thomas Starling Sullivant, Norman Lindsay, Maurice Pepin, Abner Dean
29 Caran d'Ache, Walter Harrison Cady, Robert Stewart Sherriffs, René Gruau
30 Adrien Barrère, Harold Gaze, George Herriman, Eric Fraser
31 Frederick Richardson, Franz Juttner, R. John Holmgren, Raymond Savignac
32 William Denslow, Achille Mauzan, Harry Steele Savage, Jean Bruller (Vercors)
33 Fred Opper, Harry B. Neilson, František Kupka, Georges Lepape
34 Helen Stratton, Harry Grant Dart, Roger de Valerio, Keith Ward
35 Georges Leonnec, Josef Mauder, George Carlson, Juan Carlos Huergo
36 Peter Newell, Howard Chandler Christy, Oskar Garvens, Jean Carlu
37 Bernard Partridge, Joseph Francis Kernan, Fred G. Cooper, Erich Schilling
38 Albert Levering, Charles Laborde, Severo Pozzati, Julian de Miskey
39 Adolphe Willette, Tony Sarg, Karl Arnold, Vladimir Bobritsky (Bobri)
40 Phil May, Paul Colin, Milt Gross, Bradshaw Crandell
41 Louis Raemaekers, Joseph Hemard, Gerda Wegener, Wallace Smith
42 Tom Browne, Karl Alexander Wilke, Rolf Armstrong, George Giusti
43 Franz Stassen, John R. Neill, Emerico Nunes, Tibor Gergely
44 Abel Faivre, Anton Pieck, Adrienne Segur, Paolo Garretto
45 Maurice Milliere, Alejando Sirio, George Gross, Elisabeth Ivanovsky
46 John Byam Shaw, H. P. Raleigh, Fritz Baumgarten, Franciso Lopez Rubio
47 Manuel Mayol, Patten Wilson, Pierre Lissac, F. Gregory Brown
48 Auguste Roubille, Jupp Wiertz, Gladys Peto, Boris Grinsson
49 Edmund J. Sullivan, Werner Hahmann, Charles Loupot, Leslie Illingworth
50 Louis Boutet de Monvel, Louis Wain, Modest Stein, Else Wentz Vietor

[@obeabadamatematica]

I have no words to thank you enough, Mr Beard. This channel is the only place I can "recharge my batteries" admiring beautiful illustrations and extremely talented artists. Thank you very much for your priceless work and many greetings from Brazil 😊🇧🇷

[@petebeard]

Hello, and Muito Obrigado. It's great to know that viewers from countries around the world appreciate the channel.

[@eugeniomarins2936]

O professor é cheio de fãs no Brasil... Ele já fez um sobre o J. Carlos, acho que ele é um dos artistas do número quatro da série Unsung. Também adoro os vídeos dele, nem imagino o trabalhão de pesquisa para levantar tantas informações obscuras. Sds!

[@constancedtheodore4999]

On my days off...coffee + breakfast are associated with these videos. A staple. It's so strange how many images from my childhood appear here everytime. Thank you again!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot as usual for your dedication to the cause.

[@patmcdonagh8939]

Absolutely one of the very best KZbin channels around, the depth and range of the artists and their imagery always stuns me, it’s wonderful that these works are celebrated and preserved for the future & will no doubt be a great inspiration for many artists to come..

[@petebeard]

Hello, and many thanks for your enthusiastic appreciation for the channel. Such comments convince me that what I'm doing is worthwhile.

[@larryhill5945]

Thank you so much Pete Beard for all you do. I hope you realize how much your work is appreciated!!I have turned many of my friends (artists and not artists) onto your videos. The videos are wonderful. Cheers from the West Coast of Canada

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation of the channel - and for spreading the word.

[@jamescaldwell2357]

There is so much love in your work. Thank you making such great videos!

[@petebeard]

Hello and that's nice way of referring to my abiding enthusiasm for the subject of illustration. It's greatly appreciated.

[@johannsmithe2570]

Don't know if more impressed by Zoe Mozert (previous phenomenonal "Women In Illustration" 10:42) or 9:29 man with arse of grass. Actually, looking over presentations 1-50 thru 75 the number of Unsung Heros. Hadn't realized all the illustrators I learned of until looking over the list. Pete, appreciate all the work put into this channel. Muy grassy-ass

[@JoseOliveira-kc4tr]

That "man with arse of grass" reminded me of Morrisey.😁

[@johannsmithe2570]

@@JoseOliveira-kc4tr Guess grass-fed Moz does it for animals to graze. That and salt. O.k. if its only for personal medical use ?

[@petebeard]

Hello and this reference has me puzzled. Did I say arse when I meant to say sea? Did I have a Biden moment?

[@vincentgoupil180]

Nah, Pete, you didn't say arse-y in reference to the 'Sea of Grass' (Florida Everglades) 7:23 9:51 Dude from Leeds must have had some fertile nitrogen fixation butt gut microbiota compost. 9:28 far right limerick. As for your fellow Macunian ... ? Like Happy Mondays, New Order, Joy Division. New moniker P.s. having occasional trouble posting. Time delay

[@Ellesmere888]

Another remarkable quartet brought back to life by Mr. Beard. I just keep learning about talented people I am unaware of. I particularly enjoyed Gesmar and Mozert. Thank you sir.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks as usual for the appreciation. Mozert in particular seems to have struck a chord in this one.

[@JoseOliveira-kc4tr]

Another beautifully made video (plus the limericks 😁). Peter Beard, Obrigado!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks. I do like a good limerick myself, and what a great thing to illustrate. My kind of poetry.

[@-MEL16-A.O.C]

Hello, like as well,a huge thank you for these discovers each time it's a real pleasure👍🙏 Zoë Mozert's work is incredible and her ladies are marvellous. I never thought you did such a job it's crazy,all these references🙏🙏🙏🙏 Thank you SO MUCH for sharing your love of art and your knowledge. Merci truly and bises Pete(if I dare😉)

[@petebeard]

Hello and as usual my gratitude for your enthusiasm for the series. And at my age I'll take all the bises I can get...

[@TexRenner]

A good morning, made just a little better. Thank you.

[@petebeard]

Hello again - and thanks again.

[@johnmorgan5495]

Brilliant Pete, you and all the artists.

[@petebeard]

Thanks a lot. I'm glad to say there is no sign of me running out of material.

[@johnmorgan5495]

@@petebeard Pete, last night I was looking through some late 1950's National Geographic mags I picked up at a car boot and saw a drawing by Eric Fraser which reminded me of all those great illustrators that used to decorate the Radio Times in those days, little illustrations I loved to see as a young kid. Any thoughts on doing a video on that particular artists? Keep up the great work.

[@petebeard]

@@johnmorgan5495 Hello again, and Eric fraser has already featured in the unsung heroes series - part 30.And I'm currently working on a couple of others who were around at the same time and contributed to the RT. In the 80s they were one of my most regular clients, doing at least a couple a week for quite a few years. And then they started mostly using photos, damn it!

[@johnmorgan5495]

@@petebeard Thanks Pete, yes I was very disappointed when the change can't to the RT, all the best.

[@irangel1958]

What a wonderful video to wake up to this brisk Sunday morning. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you as always. These artists are inspiring to me.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks as usual for your appreciation.

[@gabrielerosa665]

Great Pete!! Clarke Hutton, and I must confess that I didn't know him, is a interesting discovery for me....we're never waiting in vain for your videos!

[@petebeard]

Hello again Gabriel. Hutton was one of a group of British (mostly) post-war illustrators who worked very traditionally and didn't even attempt realism. Eric fraser is probably the best known.

[@Tuntee]

LOVE these videos thank you so much. I am hoping to see William Pene DuBois featured one of these days!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment and suggestion. I had never heard of DuBois or seen his work so I'm particularly grateful for the name, and his work looks fascinating. The bad news is that he was born a bit too late to be included in this series. It may seem arbitrary but my cut off year of birth is 1910. Even limiting the eligibility I've still got more to do than I've done already. But the better news is that I can't stand to not include talented illustrators somewhere and although I don't know how or when I will find an excuse to feature him in another context. Thanks again.

[@Tuntee]

@@petebeard ah! I did not realize but it makes total sense that you have to control the scope of your work! Thanks for the kind answer!

[@Lougallops]

Interesting careers, especially Zoë Mozert’s. Thanks again.

[@petebeard]

Hello and Ms. Mozert does seem to have been the most popular in this instalment. Thanks for the comment as ever.

[@VU-WakeUp]

These videos are magnificent! Can't thank you enough for making these gems.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for the enthusiastic comment.

[@emptyentertainments7914]

Thanks Pete. You never fail to impress and inspire

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks for the support.

[@melizen2]

Thank you, Pete Beard, for another marvelous collection of talent - Clarke Hutton is immediately recognizable through his Noel Streatfeild illustrations - and Zoe M must've been quite a personality!

[@petebeard]

Hello and it's good to know you're still finding the channel of interest. The supply of talent seems to be almost bottomless I'm glad to say.

[@refoliation]

Beautiful video as always Mr. Beard. Thank you. Those Mozert pinups.... vavavoom..

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot. At my age the vavavoom is harder to come by but I do get the point.

[@williamsalati9851]

Just discovered your presentations. Working through them, in order. Excellent. Thank you.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for the comment. I'm really pleased to have acquired another viewer.

[@annaguettabi3974]

What a fantastic story! Thank you! Inspirational to start my Sunday with!

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your continued appreciation.

[@josephlopez1518]

Haven’t watched for awhile, so excited to binge a bunch of these!

[@petebeard]

Hello and welcome back. Thanks for watching.

[@WendyW123]

Great video, thanks Pete. Always a pleasure to watch ☺️🙏

[@petebeard]

Hello and always a pleasure to get positive feedback.

[@TheKevphil]

Good video yet again, Pete! You may recall that well into the '70s, photo indications and storyboards for ad agencies were done in pastel ("Nupastel" was the brand I used) before markers came along, I guess in the '80s. I became pretty accomplished in both, and later on the computer, by far the least messy of them all! All that spraying with fixative over chalk was bad news!

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks as usual for the comment. This nuastel thing isn;t known to me - maybe it's down to different coubtries and their favoured methods. I remember (only just) that I started work in 1973 and for what we called 'visuals' or 'roughs'and storyboarding mthe use of markers was common. I suppose it's all cave painting compared to what's possible now.

[@vincentgoupil180]

Thank you Kevin for that bit of reality about the "good ol' days" before computers. Granted, computers have their own headaches. They're just another tool but at least one was able to sit up straight on the chair. Beats pouring concrete or putting up overhead sheetrock then sanding it. Markers were toxic.

[@TheKevphil]

@@petebeard Makes my nose itch, thinking of all the fixative used on those pastels. Now that you mention it, my teacher (who is his "real life" painted photorealistic landscapes for Oil Biz ads and calendars) *_was_* something of a holdover from the "old days." I had as a class project the recreation of a motorcycle in chalks, using the same sort of prep one would use if airbrushing.

[@TheKevphil]

@@vincentgoupil180 *_Give me digital!_* _lol_ I sort of fell thru the cracks between markers and digital comps. Nowadays I'm a cartoonist, in love with Clip Studio Paint.

[@JacksonTaylorandTheSinners]

Yes!

[@albertcscs]

Thanks Peter for another excellent video. I had a Mistinguett poster in my living room for years, only a copy, but nicely framed. And Zoe is considered to be one of the best pin-up artists of all times in the USA. She even had a few American Weekly covers herself.

[@petebeard]

Hi again, and it seems to me the American Weekly was a sort of black hole where illustrators went to be broadly frgotten, except for a certain Senor Seligman. I found not one reference or example of Mozert on their covers.

[@albertcscs]

@@petebeard I thought I sent you the link to Allan Holtz' Strippers Guide with the chronical list of all the illustrated AW's. On his 1936-1940 page he writes-"Some highlights of the late 1930s are the Salvador Dali covers, which attract a lot of art collector interest on eBay when they rarely show up. There's also the only American Weekly cover series by famed pin-up artist Zoe Mozert. A series on regional cooking by the great James Montgomery Flagg is a criminal waste of his great talent." The series was "Seven Types of American Girls" and ran from July 19 to August 30. Allan also has a lenghtly biography of Zoe, but with only one cover illustration, not an AW. However, these are not uncommon on the web, and I'll look around on that abominable Pininterst site and the Internet Archive and forward one or two to your email tonight. Now if you are implying that in Year 3 of our Perinneal Pandemic I'm going poco loco, you may have a strong point!!

[@petebeard]

@@albertcscs Hi and it's my own faltering mental state I was referring to.

[@BlueBaron3339]

Yes, these videos are as marvelous as they are - thankfully - numerous. A pessimist would lament the fact there are so many. So, so many unsung heroes. But I would say that they're being sung again, thanks to Pete. And, in so doing, an almost unheard of place has been created on the internet - a place where talent is eagerly appreciated and all comments are positive. Surprised me, I tell ya! 😂

[@petebeard]

Thanks for your favourable comment, and understanding of what I'm trying to achieve with the channel. It's been a long haul but I'm fairly pleased with viewer's responses. Wouldn't mind a few thousand more subscribers, mind you.

[@BlueBaron3339]

@@petebeard To that last point, I and no doubt *many oithers* share links to this channel regularly. But, forgive the old joke, the relatively small audience for the channel stands as a tribute to its astuteness 😏

[@Banner_Bearer_of_Eternity]

Thank you Pete! Did you ever think about transforming this KZbin channel into university course? May be it’s only me, but Graphic Design History course gave me more understanding than the rest of the curriculum. Seeing other guys work always puts up a lot of questions like «how he made this pose so agressive?», or «why this glance is so bewildered?». And you’re not provided with ready answers. Instead you’re supposed to find them. And THIS is learning.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the flattering suggestion. But I sort of thought this was a kind of university course - but free and not full of academic crap!

[@judyparker8459]

Wow, thanks so much for the Index!! I'm going to match up a couple illustrations to those artists I like best. That should keep me occupied for a while! :D Clarke and Floethe both look so familiar but I don't recall specific books so perhaps they were school library books and not home books. Deja vu, really. Thanks for these!

[@petebeard]

I'm glad it's of use in your searches and I wish I had started the archive when I started the series, but I'm just too disorganised...

[@judyparker8459]

@@petebeard ...says almost every actively creative person who hasn't got a secretary, housekeeper, assistant, partner willing to do the 'sorting out' work. :D You organize enough just making these videos! I've come to realize (over many years), I thrive better in a state of mostly minor disorganization as it often reveals creative solutions that might not appear otherwise. At least that's my theory. :D

[@anonygent]

This is the first Unsung Heroes video I've watched, but if the rest are like this one, you have created a body of work as important as the artists you covered. This could well be the modern equivalent of Giorgio Vasari's _Lives of the Artists._ It's that good.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and I hope youre not disappointed ny the others in the series. Some of the early ones are quite low resoluion, and I'm told the music is occasionally a bit intrusive ( I'm a bit deaf so getting a balance was a struggle). And I'm very flattered by the Vasari comprison, even if I wouldn't dare to think so. I'm just glad the videos will be there when I'm not.

[@anonygent]

@@petebeard It's the content, though. I have a fantastic book covering the pin-up artists, but I'm pretty sure most of these illustrators haven't been reviewed in decades, maybe not since they died.

[@johncollado1151]

Happy New Year Pete.... thank you for another informative video, much enjoyed.

[@petebeard]

Hi John and the same to you. Never thought I'd be around in 2022 with my younger excesses.

[@TheMarkEH]

Another fabulous video! Thanks Pete.

[@petebeard]

Thanks Mark. It seems there's no chance of running out of talented subjects.

[@iangillham9647]

Another fascinating episode! Thank you.

[@petebeard]

Hi again and thanks as usual. I'll keep 'em coming...

[@kalichicamacho4868]

Boy, I love this. I can't wait for more content I just love it so much thank you very very much for this. Btw Zoe was a dam beast wooooow so impressed with her work there was an orchid on the hair of one of the ladies...... wow just wow she's underrated.

[@petebeard]

Hello and it seems that Ms. Mozert has been the hit of this particular instalment. You might want to check out Joyce Ballantyne and Pearl Frush too. They feature in my women in illustration video (shameless plug for the channel).

[@collapsiblechair9112]

Great stuff. I always look forward to these and discovering new artists and art, I always feel inspired to draw after watching.

[@petebeard]

Hello, and that is music to my ears. Thanks for the appreciation.

[@simonward-horner7605]

Thanks, Pete - another very interesting foray into the world of illustration! Clarke Hutton's work looks familiar to me, maybe I was exposed to some of his illustrations as a lad. All of today's subjects piqued my curiosity. Excellent work.

[@petebeard]

Hello again, and that was certainly the case with me. Funnily enough I was too busy with the Beano and Dandy to be interested then.

[@simonward-horner7605]

@@petebeard Me too! But I have memories of school libraries - I remember Charles Keeping having a strong impression. Have you covered his work in any of your videos?

[@petebeard]

@@simonward-horner7605 He again and that name is entirely new to me, so thanks a lot and It's filed away for future use. I remember liking Noddy books and copying the Beek pictures when I was a tiny.

[@simonward-horner7605]

@@petebeard Yes, there was a real charm to those Noddy illustrations.

[@wynnschaible]

"Don't know where, don't know when." but I'm sure I've seen some of Hutton's illustration work in my long-ago boyhood! An illustrator -- especially in one's early years, but sometimes beyond -- can hit you with what is almost an alternate universe, a world designed on somewhat different optical and perspectival principles -- and the feeling-tones, the "Gestalt" behind them. One could do worse than live in Huttonworld!

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks for the comment. Hutton was one of group of British illustrators in the 40s and 50s who clung to traditional methods and as with their best known exponent Eric Fraser thay meant little to me in my youth. Now i can't get enough of it.

[@IdeaRefinery]

Thanks again Pete! You are an absolute treasure.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks for the flattering comment. Makes me sound like Dame Judy Dench...

[@eugeniomarins2936]

Dear Sir, Thanks for another great video. I plan to see all the Unsung series, but haven't been able to as yet. There is this fellow coutryman of yours, Mr. Oscar Paisley, that produces great videos of his collection of very era specific model trains. He also collects the corresponding catalogues and shows them in his videos. These catalogues have a plethora of beautiful illustrations. I wonder if these illustrations would fall within your range of interest and, if not, they are well worth a peek. I also wonder who were these artists... Cheers from Brazil!

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. And thanks for letting me know about Oscar Paisley's videos. I will take a look and see if I can find out about some of the illustrators, although it is most likely they will be uncredited. It certainly sounds as if they will be particularly obscure, but I'm always interested in finding new images.

[@eugeniomarins2936]

@@petebeard Methinks unlike Life Magazine there may be no "Pete Beard's The Art of Hornby Catalogues," but it would most certainly be a pleasure to see.

[@TheMikester307]

Oh, wonderful! (As usual!) Here in the U. S., Jane Russell did a series of ads for "The 18-hour bra" back in the 70s.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks. What on earth is an 18hour bra? I've led a sheltered life.

[@Quest4Tube]

Thanks

[@62LeftyBlues]

Great stuff! Loving these videos

[@petebeard]

Hello and I'm very glad to hear it.

[@dbensdrawinvids8390]

It may seem odd to apply words like "innocent" to a pin up, but Mozert's work contains such an exhuberance to it that it real does border on the innocent. In any case, another great installment and I can't wait for the next one.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks. And I don't think the use of the word innocent is at all inaccurate. Many of the pinups from that period seem charming and amusing compared to the more brutal imagery of modern times.

[@anniebooo]

Brilliant! Well done

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks for your appreciation for the video.

[@kaspone]

The last is very good

[@therealzilch]

Kudos again. Cheers from sunny Vienna, Scott

[@petebeard]

You keep watching, I'll keep making.

[@therealzilch]

@@petebeard Hey man, it's not just me. You offer us a wonderful glimpse at a largely forgotten art.

[@AndreLuis-gw5ox]

Amazing video, as always!

[@petebeard]

Thanks a lot and I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@mikedirle520]

Prodigious! (again!)

[@wildfood1]

Thank you!

[@kmg3658]

Thank you.

[@petebeard]

Hi and you're welcome as ever.

[@RichardHannay]

Wow that’s rather rare to find a female pinup artist! And she’s the model herself sometimes! Good for her!

[@petebeard]

Hello again and I'm glad you enjoyed her work. Actually she was one of three American women around that time creating pinups. The others were Pearl Frush and Joyce Ballantyne. They both appear in my women in illustration video (shameless plug). And I'm currently working on an earlier French pinup artist called Suzanne Meunier for the unsung series. Busy busy busy...

[@vincentgoupil180]

Joyce Ballantyne, "Coppertone" illustator, was also her own model. Probably, Gesmar too.

[@vincentgoupil180]

@@petebeard Suzanne Meunier would be a good Unsung Hero. Her work is very good and falls within the time frame of the Golden Age of Illustrators. Does her illustrations approach the pneumatically proportioned high standard of this channel? Vala Moro? Same criteria ... . v .

[@petebeard]

@@vincentgoupil180 Hi again and yes she's already waiting in line -not sure when as I'm very unmethodical and I move them around in the pecking order somewhat. But definitely sooner than later.

[@ahc1957]

I’m trying to find information on a fashion illustrator who I "think" was "Antonio B…" He had illustrations in the New Yorker and another. His illustrations were gorgeous and amazingly detailed because he painted them on a very large canvas. I wish I knew more about him. I home you can figure out this riddle and talk about him.

[@LiLi-or2gm]

I have a Zoe Mozert print from back in the day entitled "Dream Girl"- it's the same as the one in the "Irresistible" ad! Also Pete, please do a piece that includes Tamara De Lempicka- I have one of her prints (as a poster) and I know she was quite the lady on several counts!

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for the comment. Mozert seems to be the star of the show in this video judging by viewer's comments. And thanks for the suggestion of Lempicka whose work I like too. But the bad news is she wasn't actually an illustrator, but a fine artist, and other than mentioning art in passing when it's relevant I stick to the subject I know and love best, and that's illustration. Sorry to disappoint.

[@vicaldama9314]

I love it.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for that

[@johnhetherington8830]

marvelous

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot.

[@kaazmire5358]

I have an idea. Since you did one about ‘Don Quixote’, it would be interesting if you did one about the many illustrations of ‘Alice In Wonderland’.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for the suggestion. Alice is already on my 'to do' list with a load of others including Aesop's fables and Grimms Tales. I just hope I live long enough to make them all...

[@kidmohair8151]

Charles Gesmer. another member of the tragic 27 club

[@henrymach]

Hello there! I love this series. Have you heard of brazilian comics artist Flavio Colin (1930-2002)? I think you're gonna like him

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for Flavio Colin. I had never come across his work before and you're right - I really like it. Unfortunately he was born way too late for inclusion in the unsung series - cut off year is 1910. But I have bookmarked him and he would fit perfectly into my planned ;between the lines 2' video.

[@michaels7889]

You have obviously accumulated a fan club Pete to have 304 likes within 24 hours! But that is no surprise.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks. I don't want to jinx it but it does look quite healthy for the channel at the moment, I'm very pleased to say. Tomorrow the world...

[@gabriellew6467]

An illustrator named Beard Thought: "Golly, it just may be feared - Some artists, forgotten? That really is rotten!" And his website "pete beard" then appeared.

[@petebeard]

Thnks very much for the laughter. I do like a limerick, although many of the ones I favour aren't fit for public airing. So thanks for making it a flattering one, and for avoiding the word "weird".

[@gerry343]

Have you anything on Ethelbert White?

[@petebeard]

Hello and the answer is no I don't. But I'm very grateful for introducing me to his work and if I can gather enough information and visual material I will certainly feature him in a future instalment. It's great when viewers such as yourself bring new talents for me to work with. Thanks.

[@gerry343]

@@petebeard I do hope you are able to make something with White. I only knew of his work from an illustration on a book cover.

[@petebeard]

@@gerry343 Hi again, but it's not looking good, I'm sorry to say. Virtually every available usable image by him is created as art, either painted or woodcut . And that puts him outside my reach. It's particularly annoying because it's recorded that he illustrated quite a number of books, mostly limited editions, but there is apparently no evidence of any of it. I thought I'd let you know so you don't expect his appearance in the series. Not the first or last time this has happened

[@gerry343]

@@petebeard Thanks for looking into it. I wasn't sure myself, having looked through Google, whether White's work would qualify as 'illustration'

[@justicecommander9455]

It's a shame that Gesmar addiction cut his life short because he was really skilled for his age, but then again if that hilarious story about him, the pistol and the toilet cistern is true maybe he wasn't quite there in his head.

[@johannsmithe2570]

27 Club Illustrator nominee

[@petebeard]

Hello and I usually try to avoid details of the illustrators' personal lives unless they are relevant to the work, but I couldn't resist that one - priceless.

[@mijiyoon5575]

Age 11 my goodness *Charles Gesmar* & working at age 15 ... then he died young

[@petebeard]

Hello and yes it's hard to comprehend such precocious talent.

[@hektor6766]

75 full videos of unsung illustrators, many of whom experienced penury. You hear of the sweat-shop conditions of manga and anime studios today. Yet others make millions by throwing a ball through a hoop, knocking one into a cup sunk in a lawn, or carrying one over a chalk line. Is the creation of beauty from marks on a surface such a mundane ability? It's rather sad, in a way. EDIT: Well, those in this video seemed to have done well, for themselves, even if one was self-destructive.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your recent favourable comments and observations about the channel content. Regarding the apparent ease with which sporty types make a fortune it does send my blood pressure into uncharted territory, but I try to be philosophical. As you rightly observe some (if only a few) did make a fortune from their images. And some still do. Sadly not me...

[@danansen1]

sad that its a game,feel about you,weird,must copmforting to women to have that power,i guess thats why their relationships dont work out.hmmm honesty out the window,just lie and be mysterious but interesting,lol

[@petebeard]

I'm sorry but I have no idea what your comment means.