Cyrus Cuneo and His Work: The Art of the Illustrator (Limited Edition Prints)

Artist: Cyrus Cuneo
Medium: Limited edition Lithograph prints on Card
Size: 11" x 16" (279mm x 406mm)
Date: 1918
Code: Cuneo6

This is a Limited edition collection of printss.

The Art of The Illustrator by Percy V Bradshaw was published by The Press Art School, Forest Hill, London 1918. In 1918 Percy Bradshaw contacted 20 of the leading illustrators of the day and commissioned each of them for a special illustration.

Each artist was given an entirely free hand as to subject, the only stipulation being that the painting or drawing should be representative of his/her technique and that each stage in its composition should be shown. Bradshaw then reproduced in 6 plates each step in the artistic process and published the 6 lithographs in a portfolio with a 12 page introduction and description of the process within a card folder.

Artists in this series are Lawson Wood, F.H. Townsend, Fortunino Matania, Harry Rountree, Claude A Shepperson, Bert Thomas, William Heath Robinson, Frank Reynolds, Cyrus Cuneo, William Russell Flint, Charles Brock, Spenser Pryse, Warwick Reynolds, Edmund Sullivan, Balliol Salmon, H.M. Bateman, Louise Wright, W Hatherell, Dudley Hardy and Bernard Partridge.

Highly sought after, these portfolios were a ground breaking idea and very popular at the time. A great way to discover the secrets and techniques of some of the worlds' greatest illustrators.

'A Canadian Camp Fire' is the black and white oils drawing demonstrated by Cyrus Cuneo RI.

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       Original issues of Bradshaw's ART OF THE ILLUSTRATOR(1918)

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• Artist Biography
  Cyrus Cuneo
  Cyrus Cuneo was chosen by art instructor Percy V. Bradshaw as one of the artists to illustrate "The Art of the Illustrator", a collection of twenty portfolios demonstrating six stages of a single painting or drawing by twenty different artists and published in 1918.