WARWICK REYNOLDS (1880-1926)
'PROSPERITY'
Auction: 11 October 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
crayon on paper, signed lower right
Dimensions
38cm x 26.5cm
Provenance
Provenance: The Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond Street, London, 1992
Formerly the collection of Andrew McIntosh Patrick.
Footnote
Literature: Bradshaw P.V. The Art of the Illustrator, The Press Art School, Forest Hill, London 1918
Note: 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 the 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. The current lot represents the final drawing by Warwick Reynolds.
Other artists were 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, Edmund Sullivan, Balliol Salmon, H.M. Bateman, Louise Wright, W Hatherell, Dudley Hardy and Bernard Partridge.
Born in Islington, Warwick Reynolds was the son of a cartoonist and illustrator of the same name. He studied in London at the Grosvenor Studio and the St. John’s Wood Art School, and in 1895 began working as a magazine illustrator, eventually contributing to such publications as The Idler, Pearson’s Magazine, The Quiver and The Strand Magazine, among others. In 1906 he settled in Glasgow where he was employed as a staff artist at the Daily Record, he also exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts and the Royal Scottish Academy.