L.K.Ward (Captain)
Captain Ward was a winner of a poster competition for the War Office, organised by the Army Education Scheme. Information collated from: Anonymous, ‘Winning War Office Poster’, Advertiser’s Weekly,...
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Victor Weisz
The cartoonist ‘Vicky’ was born Victor Weisz in Germany, of Hungarian Jewish extraction. He attended the Berlin School of Art, leaving when his father died in 1928, and published cartoons in German...
View ArticleNorman Widger
Widger was Publicity Manager for G & J Weir Ltd, who put posters to music in factories. Information collated from: Shaw, C.K., ‘Works Relations’, Advertiser’s Weekly, Vol. 124, No. 1,618, May 25...
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Norman Wilkinson (b.1878; d.1971)
Norman Wilkinson was born in Cambridge, educated at Berkhamsted and St Paul’s, and studied art at Portsmouth and Southsea Schools of Art. Wilkinson did early work for the Illustrated London News and...
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H.S. Williamson (b.1892; d.1978)
Harold Sandys Williamson was born in Leeds on 29 August 1892. He studied at the Leeds School of Art between 1911 and 1914. In 1915 he attended the RA Schools in London, 1914-15 and was awarded the...
View ArticleH.G.Winbolt
Worked with Leonard Cusden, producing sixty to seventy posters a year for ROSPA, for distribution to factories. His designs tended to originate as ‘mind pictures or actual happenings’ rather than an...
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Frank Wootton
Studied at Eastbourne College of Art under Eric Ravilious, Wootton (sometimes mis-spelt Wooton) was a painter of a range of subjects, including landscapes and equestrian subjects, as well as the...
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Fougasse – Careless Talk Costs Lives
9 September – 24 November 2010 ‘How carelessly we should have talked during the war but for Fougasse.’ Princess Elizabeth in 1950. In February 1940 the Ministry of Information launched a series of...
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The Culture Show
Here are “my” posters again… well, I have written the most about them I’m still watching the programme, and it seems to be mostly about “Art” with a capital A, which many posters are not considered...
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Challenges To Biography (AHRC)
Why the network? Clearly academic biographers from different disciplines, freelance biographers, and theorists of biography can and do meet – but too often their engagement with each other is...
View ArticleR.H.Talmadge
Talmadge joined the RAF in 1940, having previously studied package design under Milner Gray, and ‘was in control of the packaging of a firm of canners and packers of food products for the Home and...
View ArticleFred Taylor (b.1875; d.1963)
Fred Taylor was born in London on March 22 1875, the son of William Taylor. Taylor studied briefly at Goldsmith’s College, London, where he won a gold medal for his posters, and a travelling...
View ArticleBert Thomas (b.1883; d.1966)
Bert Thomas was born in Newport, Wales to Job Thomas, a sculptor. When he left school he was apprenticed as a commercial metal engraver, specialising in the design of brass door plates. In the early...
View ArticleA.R. Thomson
Thomson was the illustrator on the book Iolaire Forth from the Wilderness in 1937. Thomson was personally commissioned to do work for the MOI by Edwin Embleton. Sometimes spelt A.R. Thompson, he...
View ArticleCharles E. Turner (b.1893; d.1965)
Charles E Turner was born in Lancaster, but based in Liverpool, an artist who specialised in landscape and marine views. Proficient in watercolours and oils, Turner exhibited at the RA in London as...
View ArticleCharles Uptton
Uptton appeared to specialise in religious imagery, including 121 images for the 1960s Egermeier’s Bible Story Book were ‘especially commissioned from the internationally known artist Clive Uptton’,...
View ArticlePeter Varnon
Described by Advertiser’s Weekly as ‘youthful’, ‘bespectacled’, with a ‘scholarly stoop’, Varnon had joined the Merchants Navy Comforts Service (MNCS) in late 1942. Varnon moved from his own business,...
View ArticleFougasse Exhibition @ The Cartoon Musuem
Fougasse – Careless Talk Costs Lives 9 September – 21 November 2010 An exhibition of classic war-time poster designs, posters for London Transport and Punch cartoons by Fougasse from the 1920s to the...
View ArticleThe Art of War
Artists’ ability to portray the human cost of war makes them invaluable, even in the era of 24-hour news, argues Peter Hill The position of “war artist” may sound old-fashioned, but not only does it...
View ArticleLionel Rich: War Artist
I’m gradually clearing out my hard drive, and came across this saved in my PhD files, and thought you might like it: One of his designs: Second World War Posters Mass Communications Academic, @MMUBS....
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