UNSUNG HEROES OF ILLUSTRATION 95 HD

[@TheMarkEH]

How you manage to find such consistently engrossing subjects is amazing. Thanks again for your hard work Pete.

[@petebeard]

Hello and I'm delighted that you think so. What i don't understand is how every time I complete a batch more pop up to take their place. I thought I'd have hit the bottom of the barrel long ago.

[@petebeard]

@@lizday8140 Hi again and thanks for this comment. It's a particular pleasure to know that some viewers find the material shown encourages them in their own creative endeavours

[@shirleykathan-sayess5764]

I love your wonderful videos, Pete! I’ve loved illustration for over 70 years. You have introduced me to fabulous illustrators I’d never known. Thank you so much! ❤ SayessDesign

[@LA-mg7rv]

Thank you for your efforts Pete. I love and find each video very informative and enriching! I have discovered so many artists thanks to your work here.

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your comment and appreciation of my work on the channel. Such responses make it all worthwhile.

[@brianwillerton8659]

As an artisan, I appreciate these different short over views to enlighten and delight my searches in styles. Creating a body of work to be remembered by is a monumental undertaking...

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your comment. I'm glad you find the content of interest.

[@maxlinder5262]

I can't imagine where you find these Artists ...So many unheard of ....😊

[@petebeard]

Hello again and I'm not sure how I find them either. I'm starting to wonder if I'm being controlled by forces unknown. Cue spooky music...

[@jontalbot1]

I have said this before but Pete Beard produces some of the best You Tube videos l have ever seen. I am not a graphic designer myself but the pace, production, illustrated content and narration are so well executed l am completely absorbed. The music is also unobtrusive but excellent. So refreshing after all the click baity rubbish.

[@petebeard]

Hello and you can say it as often as you like as far as I'm concerned. It really is a good feeling to know that the work is appreciated. Many thanks.

[@bigblue6917]

Four more excellent examples of the illustrators art. Thank you, Pete.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and my thanks as ever.

[@cennethadameveson3715]

There's always something to my liking! When I see a illustration I recognise, it is wonderful to put a name to it and look for more. Thank You.

[@petebeard]

Hello and I'm very pleased that you appreciate the content - and let me know it.

[@jaybradley9083]

Four more illustrators for us to admire. Some of Charles Pears' work reminds me of the marine paintings by Chris Mayger. Excellent video, as always.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks for the comment. I hadn;t previously known about Chris mMayger but I see what you mean.

[@michaelmontcombroux3413]

Be assured, Pete, there was plenty in this collection to delight the senses! I particularly like the copperplate engravings of Stephen Gooden and admire his tenacity to stay with that art form for so long. The light reflecting off the copper plate, coupled with the close work required is incredibly hard on the eyes.

[@petebeard]

Hello again, and as with all forms of engraving my mind can;t begin to cope with the skills required. I feel the same way about sculpture too.

[@franek_izerski]

I always get so melancholic by these Unsung Heroes of Illustration.

[@petebeard]

Thanks for your comment, but Im sorry that they have that effect on you. They are supposed to be celebrations of the illustrators featured. Maybe it's my rather droning voice...

[@franek_izerski]

@@petebeard Haha. no, it's not your droning voice. It's the era, the beginning of the twentieth century, the interbellum. I always love this time period, last of the innocent days.

[@thebbc61]

These videos are so relaxing and really help me wind down at night. Many Thanks! The world is a gentler and better place with you in it

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. I'm very grateful to you.

[@Mister_Weasel]

Always a joy to watch your videos, Pete. Thanks🙏

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks for your appreciation.

[@b.nugent733]

Wanted to share my appreciation for this channel. I've been watching this series routinely for the past few months and it's given me so much inspiration for my own artwork, something that had been missing for a while. Not to mention these videos are so calming to watch. I'm often hypnotized to sleep, not from boredom, but from the process of absorbing so much information. I've always appreciated the so-called "golden age of illustration" but I'm constantly surprised by the seemingly endless number of artists that produced during that time. Thank you for making these :)

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your comment. Such positive responses to the channel and its content really do make a difference to me. And I'm delighted that you find the work of some of these neglected talents inspirational.

[@mikedirle520]

As always... I LOVE what I learn from your research, study and presentations. I look froward more and more them!! Thank you, Sir!

[@petebeard]

Hi again and thanks as ever for your appreciation. And unless I fall off my perch there will be plenty more forthcoming.

[@dedward7739]

The darker works of Mirande are haunting. Thank you.

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for the comment. Can't stand them, myself. Comedy is king in my book.

[@leighmackay7486]

Time given to viewing a Pete Beard video is consistently time well spent.

[@petebeard]

Hi again and thanks for that comment - it means a lot.

[@chucklitka2503]

I am going to have to track down some more of Charles Pears maritime paintings, as I love sea & ship art. I do have "The Best of Sail" with Jack Purling's wonderful paintings, from the Blue Peter magazine. BTW, the inside cover illustration was a line drawing by W. M. Birchall. I have an signed etching by Gordon Grant, which I think might have been sold via mail order from ads in The National Geographic in the 1930's. Thanks again for another video. They are wonderful -- so much art so many different ways!

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation and comment. Glad you enjoyed Pears' work.

[@OkieSketcher1949]

Once again a superb job. I don’t know where you find everything but please keep looking. I have so far enjoyed them all and I seriously doubt I will ever see a bad presentation with your name on it. I’ve lost count on how many I have viewed, but if I see one twice or three times so much t(e better. Thanks again for all you do.

[@petebeard]

Hello again Robert, and oh what I would give for a few thousand more viewers like you. Your appreciation and loyalty to the channel means a lot to me, so thanks a lot.

[@Wess2631]

Another collection of fantastic artists! Great work again Pete😁👍👍

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your comment, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@TheMikester307]

Oh, wonderful Pete! Thank you! Pears' sunset poster at 3:11 is lovely! And am I the only one who thinks some of Gooden's work reminds them of Robert Lawson?

[@petebeard]

Hi again and thanks for the positive comment. And I for one can see some similarity at least - although it wouldn't have been the first comparison I'd have made, if only because Lawson was usually humorous. You never know with people's chosen styles.

[@gabriellew6467]

Another quartet of artists is given an appreciative audience thanks to the diligence and love of the subject by Pete Beard. While he produced quite a number of artworks, including seascapes, I will carry the memory of his Southern Railway poster as a startling, almost passionate flaming torch. Henri Mirande had the gift to convey with a few spare lines, mood, and attitude in his humorous illustrations. The Kafkaesque feeling of his later work points to problems he may well have had. Alice Bolam Preston has, to my mind, a touch of Beatrix Potter when it comes to her anthropomorphic work. Stephen Gooden's fable illustrations are very special (very much to a fable lover). The Poet's Cat illustrations - endearing. The grievous error concerning the confusion of the author of said book is herewith officially forgiven. With the fervent hope that the entire reprimanded Pete Beard Research Team has been reinstated and no more pay is being docked. Remember, we are all fallible!

[@petebeard]

..as a wiser man than me said "to err is human, to forgive is divine". Apparently Einstein is supposed to have said "the only people who don't make mistakes are the ones who have never done anything". I like that one.

[@simonward-horner7605]

Thanks, Pete. As usual an engrossing video, well presented. I hadn't heard of any of these artists, all marvellous in their own way; Alice Bolam Preston might have come under my scrutiny once, but I might be thinking of another artist. I love Charles Pears and Henri Mirande. Stephen Gooden seems to have wished he was born in another age, and some of his work appears quite stuffy and antiquated, while others are extraordinary; really a wonderful video; thanks again.

[@petebeard]

Hi again, and I agree with your observations about Gooden. It probably goes back to my days at art school but I hated anything that to me at that time seemed pointlessly anachronistic and fiddly. Of course as a realtively grown up old man I see the beauty of what can be created but I still find it baffling that anyone would choose to make marks that way.

[@ah1954]

Mona Gooden, born Mona Steele Price (1894-1958), was Stephen Gooden's wife. She was a poet, but collected the poems in the book 'The Poet's Cat', she didn't write them.

[@petebeard]

oops...mea culpa.

[@johngraham4053]

Another interesting selection Pete. It’s interesting how many illustrator’s start off by pursuing the fine art and realising its not going to happen. But it was not the case in this episode. Thank enjoyed.

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks for your comment.

[@tonygohagan2766]

Amazing Installment. Thanks, Pete.

[@petebeard]

Hi again and I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@knottynate6876]

Thank you for all the education. Sincerely

[@petebeard]

Hello and your appreciation of the channel means a lot to me. Thanks.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

The perfect post Eurovision hangover cure...only kidding...another interesting post, thanks again for sharing this with us all 😊😊😊😊

[@petebeard]

Hi again, and don't tell me you actually watched it. Personally I'd rather have a colonoscopy - without sedation. Thanks as ever.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

​@@petebeard oh ...the horror...last time I watched, Dana from Derry won😅😅😅

[@fuzzydragons]

I studied Charles Pears's posters a lot in an art communication course, they were very detailed and technically perfect for the subject, but still either told a story or acted extremely well as promotion posters

[@petebeard]

Hi again and thanks for the recent comments. I get the feeling you are among a fairly select group who already knew about the amazing Mr. Pears. He deserves much greater recognition.

[@fuzzydragons]

yeah i studied a lot of art from the period for essays so was able to research a lot about the artists in that era

[@MikeThomasFaria]

Many thanks, as usual, Pete!

[@petebeard]

Hello again and I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

[@bobblehead67]

Delighted to have discovered your channel! I'm only sorry I'm so late to the party; I've a lot of catching up to do. Are you planning something special for Episode 100? Many thanks for this incredible resource!

[@philippriestman8516]

Aaah another svelte presentation from Beard the bard, noice one Pete ☝

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot, especially for 'svelte'.

[@wildfood1]

Thank you Pete!

[@petebeard]

Welcome as ever

[@cminor99]

Wonderful!

[@petebeard]

Thanks again.

[@wynnschaible]

An intriguing quartet, once again, and a particular set of cases of the intersection of life, time and art. Who knows why Mirande and Preston dropped from the scene? Perhaps they felt that styles were evolving in ways they did not wish to follow? Perhaps something in their lives of which their work gave no or little indication? Perhaps just that for some, their art is (in Rimbaud's phrase) a "magique étude" which one can only follow for so long? What made Gooden resist color so strongly and concentrate on such a narrow medium? -- in which, granted, it could produce absolutely stunning results -- when the subject was suited for it. But certainly Pears died at the right time -- right along with the death of the great liners which formed the backbone of his 'contemporary' (as opposed to antiquarian sailing ship) work!

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks for your comment and observations. It's always somewhat frustrating when the evidence of work disappears considerably before the illustrator does, and there is very rarely any explanation given in the various sources used. But in the end it's the work that counts.

[@josephsdale3724]

The more I read of your work, the more I want. Ye gods, where do you get it all???? Amazing. Thanks for all your hard work. It is more addictive than cocaine!

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for your enthusiasm for the channel. It's great to know the work is appreciated.

[@charlestaylor3195]

There is some excllent artwork in this one.Just like all the ones before it I would say an illistrator was a form of technology. At the turn of the century our information was digital, the century befor that was manuel? Illistrogical?

[@petebeard]

Hello again and thanks. And you are right about illustration's dependency on technology. The means of reproduction is crucial to the outcome and it's something I try to stress, particularly in the more evolutionary videos.

[@mijiyoon5575]

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[@robertdufour2456]

Again! Brilliant! How do you do it?!!!

[@petebeard]

Hello and many thanks for the appreciation. And I don't know why but I just keep on finding them, somehow.

[@hellinas77]

Φαίνεται ότι το London Underground παρουσίασε μια πολύ μεγάλη παραγωγή από διάφορους καλλιτέχνες διαχρονικά. Πιστεύω ότι θα ήταν πολύ ενδιαφέρον να τα ανθολογισετε σε μια προσεχή σας παρουσίαση. Ένα μεγάλο ευχαριστώ για την τόσο σημαντική παρουσίαση τόσο ξεχασμένο δημιουργό.💖🇬🇷

[@petebeard]

Γεια σας και πάλι και ευχαριστώ για το σχόλιό σας. Έχω κάνει ένα βίντεο για το μετρό του Λονδίνου πριν από λίγο καιρό και αν ψάξετε στο youtube είμαι σίγουρος ότι θα εμφανιστεί.

[@quietzone1313]

Wow this was a good one. Have you ever done artist Saul Tepper?

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot. Like many others, Saul Tepper has had a completed feature for inclusion for quite a long time, and like those others I have no idea why I haven't yet uploaded it. Such is life when you are as disorganised as I am. But rest assured he will feature sooner rather than later.

[@quietzone1313]

@@petebeard thanks for the response and I will wait patiently. Thanks for doing such great work. It doesn’t go unnoticed.

[@kidmohair8151]

the final image is....

[@petebeard]

I'll take it that it impressed you enough to leave you lost for words.

[@kidmohair8151]

@@petebeard it did.

[@louiscypher7090]

Hey, Pete... I think you'll find the following video very interesting. Title: J. C. Leyendecker - a close up look at his paintings

[@petebeard]

Hello and thanks a lot for the suggestion. I will check it out.

[@peterclark6290]

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