Warwick Reynolds and his work: The Art of the Illustrator (Limited Edition Prints)

Artist: Warwick Reynolds
Medium: Limited edition Lithograph prints on Card
Size: 11" x 16" (279mm x 406mm)
Date: 1918
Code: ReynoldsW6

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.

'Prosperity' is the conte crayon drawing demonstrated by Warwick Reynolds, depicting an affluent black family.

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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You might be interested in these related item(s):
       Original issues of Bradshaw's ART OF THE ILLUSTRATOR (1918)

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• Artist Biography

  Warwick Reynolds (8 April 1880 - 15 December 1926; London, UK)
  Warwick Reynolds was born in Islington, London, on 8 April 1880. His father, Warwick Reynolds senior, was a cartoonist and watercolourist.
  
  He was educated at Stroud Green, and studied art at the Grosvenor Studio, St. John's Wood Art School. He started a career as a magazine illustrator in 1895, which included working on Ally Sloper's Half Holiday and The Gem. He was particularly interested in drawing and painting animals, and made a study of the animals in the Zoological Society's collection in 1895-1901. He illustrated numerous books on wildlife subjects.
  
  Reynolds was chosen by art instructor Percy V. Bradshaw as one of the artists to illustrate "The Art of the Illustrator", the seminal collection of twenty portfolios demonstrating six stages of a single painting or drawing by twenty different artists and published in 1918.
  
  He married Mary Kincaid, daughter of a master printer, in 1906, and they settled in Glasgow, apart from a year he spent in Paris, where he studied at Julian's and produced pastel street scenes. He died in Glasgow on 15 December 1926. His nephew Basil Reynolds was also a comic artist.
  Source: UK Comics Wiki