The Art of Illustration
Chris Beetles Gallery - 18 May until 22 June 2013. Monday - Saturday, 10.00am - 5.30pm.
As a result of the success and popularity of their long-standing annual winter exhibition,
‘The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration’ from November to January, the
Chris Beetles Gallery will now mount an additional summer show of similar range and quality.
Already known as the most significant event worldwide for this area of interest, the new biannual exhibition will continue to present a wealth of British cartoons and illustrations, both classic and contemporary.
Alongside such favourite artists as
William Heath Robinson, Ernest Howard Shepard, Ronald Searle, and
Mabel Lucie Attwell , the exhibition will include major examples from the golden age of illustration, including a beautiful
Richard Doyle, the first great artist in the fairy genre, and a quintessential watercolour by
Arthur Rackham of the
Rhinemaidens and Siegfried, produced for his masterly edition of
Richard Wagner’s The Ring. The tradition continues with an exquisite group of
Margaret Tarrant's fairyland.
The exhibition will also provide a further opportunity to view the crisp draughtsmanship of
Eric Fraser, following the gallery's significant retrospective of the artist who defined the look of Radio Times.
In addition, there will be a showcase of the rich variety of contemporary illustrators, from such household names as
Quentin Blake, John Burningham (who will open the show),
Helen Oxenbury and
Michael Foreman to the more newly established talents of
Amanda Hall, Jane Pinkney and
Gillian Tyler. They will be matched by some of the finest living cartoonists and caricaturists, including
Peter Brookes, Barry Fantoni and
Matt.
The exhibition is not accompanied by a catalogue; however, biographies can be read on the individual artist pages and literature can be bought directly from the gallery's publications page.
Artists in the exhibition include:
Edward Ardizzone • Mabel Lucie Attwell • H M Bateman Quentin Blake • John Burningham • Peter Brookes • Richard Doyle • Barry Fantoni • Michael Foreman • Eric Fraser • Kate Greenaway • Amanda Hall • Florence Harrison • William Hewison • Helen Oxenbury • Matt • Jane Pinkney • Arthur Rackham • William Heath Robinson • Willie Rushton • Ronald Searlehttp • E H Shepard • Ed Sorel • Margaret Tarrant • Gillian Tyler • Lawson Wood
View the exhibition online now
here
Tickets for the first Lakes International Comic Art Festival have gone on sale.
Ralph Steadman is recognised as one of the most important British graphic artists of the last fifty years. He had a long collaboration with the writer Hunter S.Thompson, with whom he worked on numerous illustration projects - most notably providing the illustrations for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - and continued to create beautiful and detailed work after Thompson's death. He also helped to create what has since become known as gonzo journalism.
