Featured who is the artist of this 1930' 1940s British print?

Discussion in 'Art' started by chantaljones, Jul 2, 2021.

  1. chantaljones

    chantaljones Well-Known Member

    I can buy this print and can not figure out who the artist is. Any ideas?
    Google image search didn't help

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  2. LauraGarnet02

    LauraGarnet02 Well-Known Member

    She's quite the glamor girl!
    One thing I noticed that's kind of weird, the necklace looks like it's tattooed on. The artist put a gleam on the jewel in her ring and the earring that shows, even in her eyes, but left the necklace flat and one dimensional.
     
  3. anundverkaufen

    anundverkaufen Bird Feeder

  4. moreotherstuff

    moreotherstuff Izorizent

  5. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    1920s. But that's not the full piece is it? Her feet aren't included, there appears to be text underneath and perhaps a frame. All of those would have provided helpful information.

    Debora
     
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  6. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Just doesn't seem to be much more known about him than this. Of course, he was a commercial illustrator not a fine artist.

    Debora

    WOOLLEY Harry 1881-1959
    Artist and illustrator born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire and moved to Bristol in c.1911. He was active as a freelance artist from c.1910 onwards.

    Biography of Harry Woolley
    Probably the most prolific freelance artist to be involved in the production of cigarette cards was a gentleman enigmatically referred to in the records of printing firm Mardon, Son & Hall as “H. Woolley” (Harry Woolley, born in Hurst, Lancashire, 1880). He was responsible for preparing the artwork for some or all of the illustrations appearing on at least 25 different sets of cigarette cards and in addition prepared dozens of sketches for adverts, show cards and the like. The only reference found is in Johnson & Gretzner’s Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940. This briefly states that he exhibited in 1912-13 at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of Miniature Painters. A reference to a Harry Woolley is made in A Checklist of Painters 1200-1994 (2nd Edition) with H. Woolley and Harry being one and the same person. The cigarette card artwork that Woolley produced covered a wide range of subjects, which confirms that his skills were wide-ranging
    Mr. Woolley was married twice. His second marriage was to Sheelah A. McCarthy in 1954, by which time he was living in Sussex. He died near Salisbury, Wiltshire, in 1959, aged 78.British Library records and the Abebooks website reveal a small number of publications which Woolley illustrated as follows:

    Debora
     
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  7. LauraGarnet02

    LauraGarnet02 Well-Known Member

    Because she's holding a cigarette, I'd wager she's one of the advertising commissions he painted.
     
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  8. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Depends on the proportions of the work, whether they match those of a tobacco card. Unfortunately, we're unable to determine as we haven't been shown the complete work.

    Debora
     
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