Frank Reynolds and His Work: The Art of the Illustrator (Limited Edition Prints)

Artist: Frank Reynolds
Medium: Limited edition Lithograph prints on Card
Size: 11" x 16" (279mm x 406mm)
Date: 1918
Code: Reynolds6

This is a Limited edition collection of prints.

The Art of The Illustrator by Percy V Bradshaw was published in 1918 by The Press Art School, Forest Hill, London. 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.

'On Tour' is the pencil drawing demonstrated by Frank Reynolds RI, the artist humourist of "Punch" and "The Sketch" magazines.

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.

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

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• Artist Biography

  Frank Reynolds (13 February 1876 - 18 April 1953; London)
  Frank Reynolds was a British artist. Son of an artist, he studied at Heatherley's School of Art.
  
  Reynolds had a drawing called A provincial theatre company on tour published in The Graphic on 30 November 1901. In 1906 he began contributing to Punch Magazine and was regularly published within its pages during World War I. He was well known for his many illustrations in several books by Charles Dickens, including David Copperfield (c. 1911), The Pickwick Papers (c. 1912) and The Old Curiosity Shop (c1913). He succeeded F.H. Townsend as the Art Editor for Punch. He was also a prolific watercolour painter and was a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours from 1903.
  
  Frank Reynolds was chosen by art instructor Percy V. Bradshaw as one of the artists to illustrate "The Art of the Illustrator", a celebrated collection of twenty portfolios demonstrating six stages of a single painting or drawing by twenty different artists and published in 1918.
  
  One of his more notable works is entitled Jingle and his journal contributions included:
  London Magazine
  The Sketch
  Punch (magazine)
  Windsor Magazine
  The Illustrated London News
  Source: Wikipedia and Illustration Art Gallery