Always a treat when I get to watch one of your videos. Thank you.

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

...and the same when I get one of your favourable responses.

Thank you, yet again, Mr. Beard. Your beautifully produced videos are Always a treat. McKnight Kauffer's work is another example of how less is more, a genius of balance and style.

@eamonnclabby7067

6 ай бұрын

Hear,hear

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Thanks again for your comment and appreciation of the video.

@parry3231

6 ай бұрын

Well said ❤

Thanks Mr. Beard for introducing me to yet another fabulous artist.

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hello and I'm glad to have done so.

I never tire of your wonderful videos. I've never heard of Edward McKnight Kauffer until watching this. From the illustrations I've seen from his time period, he obviously made an impression of other illustrators.

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hello again and it's always a particular pleasure to know I'm bringing the work of figures like this to viewers for the first time.

Can't thank you enough for what you bring to us Pete!

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Maybe not, but its great that you keep doing so. My eternal gratitude.

@parry3231

6 ай бұрын

❤ I agree wholeheartedly that we are blessed by the way that Pete is constantly introducing us to the artistry of so many people. ❤

Great video, Pete. As the years go by I find it harder and harder in mind to differentiate between 'illustrations' and 'fine art'. They both please me in equal measure and as has been said they 'fill my mind and not just a space on the wall'. Eighty percent of EMK's work, I would rather have on my walls than that of a lot more established fine artists.

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment, and I must say I share your opinion about the art/illustration debate. Much as I love painting from the Renaissance onward a time came in the later 20th century when many fine artists ceased to have any interest in actually communicating with the viewer and it seems to me that illustration has filled that void for many of us.

Oh, born in Montana. I live in Missoula, Montana. Very happy here. Quite an interesting artist; Art Deco has many guises, but one can always spot it. Thank you once again for the art/history lessons that are such a calling card for your uploads.

@eamonnclabby7067

6 ай бұрын

Best wishes to Montana, from the wirral peninsula,bounded by the mersey and the Dee and the Irish sea...geography and rhyme...E..

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot (again) for your appreciation.

Another great artist for us to enjoy, his spacing, composition and variety of styles are incredible. Thank you for showing us this graphic genius!

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hi and I'm pleased you enjoyed this video and Kauffer's work. Thanks for the comment.

Thank you for your research and great visuals

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hi and thanks for your appreciation.

Thank you Pete. A beautiful well put together video. I love your work. Thank you for shining the light on the genius that is this man. 🌟

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hello and my gratitude for your praise for my work on the channel. It's a great motivator.

Thank you so much for your help in getting this abundance of incredible artwork to us all. Fascinating and exciting to see the magnificence of our differences in this process of expressing the desire for creative freedom and passion. It is so inspiring and very important for our understanding of the importance of creativity and joyously living with authenticity and expression.

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hello and your kind remarks about the channel and my contribution to it really do convince me I'm doing something right. It's a genuine source of pleasure to me to realise there are quite a few others out there who share my fascination with this subject.

I really enjoyed this one. Love Kauffer's imagination for great geometrical work, composition and balance. Very interesting stuff.

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hello amd thanks a lot for your comment and appreciation.

Thanks, Pete. One of the founders of Art Deco. My favourite period.

@eamonnclabby7067

6 ай бұрын

Me too...E...

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Thanks as ever for your appreciation.

Pete, you’re doing a public service with these videos. Genuinely. Big respect.

@michaelcoull8590

5 ай бұрын

Also those railway posters are eye-poppingly beautiful. I hadn’t seen those before, so thank you.

@petebeard

5 ай бұрын

Many thanks for your continued appreciation for the channel. It's a genuine pleasure to know the work is valued.

Wow! You usually don't see that much stylistic development over the course of a career as long as his, especially from a commercial illustrator/artist.

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hello and many thanks for your comment. It's greatly appreciated.

Out of the video images, your words Pete are so precise and descriptive that only hearing a podcast we can imagine Styles and illustrations, it's the BEST song for the Unsung Héroes!

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hello Gabriel, and you flatter me (ans I love it) with your praise for the channel and my contribution. How I wish I was by the sea in Spain...

@gabrielerosa665

6 ай бұрын

@@petebeard .....at the sea? But in summer, not now!!

Love your channel. Binging this afternoon!

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot. Don't overdo it though...

Meraviglioso video d'Art déco ❤ Grazie Pete ❤😃🥂👍

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Ciao di nuovo e grazie per l'apprezzamento.

Pete these get better and better...what a great resource for the future...as a 63 yr old I never appreciated how fwd thinking these artist are.... just a few women get featured?.... probably no different today

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation. I've covered a few female illustrators in this series (and more to come) and there are also a sizeable mirority in the unsung heroes series. But there weren't many who got involved with the more graphic-y work.

I really appreciate the audacity of some of his work; and your choice of music for this one. Thank you again.

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Thanks as usual, and I must say I wish I had thought to use the word 'audacity' in connection with his work. Absolutely spot-on.

More education, inspiration and delight! Thank you, Sir!

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

It's my pleasure.

Thank you very much it was very informative. I've always enjoyed poster art specially from the turn of the last century through to about the 1960s or so. I came across a copy of Moby Dick I think it was printed in about 1930 something I gave it away as a Christmas present but I like the block print it was in his style now I come to think of it. once again thank you .

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hello and your appreciation is very welcome. I'm not a betting man but if I was I would bet the contents of my piggy bank that the version of Moby Dick you mention was by Rockwell Kent. His work features in my video unsung heroes of illustration 10, including some samples from that very book.

Wonderful ❤

👍Thank you!🇬🇧🇵🇹

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

You're welcome, sir.

Hi there. An illustrater i don't know,but is really one I like. Once again I have to thank you for introducing me to to a great artist. Greetings from Germany

@petebeard

5 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot for your comment and appreciaton. I'm pleased to have introduced you to his work.

Many thanks.

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hi and you are very welcome.

I had no idea that his work was so prolific. Thank you for this very absorbing piece. Did you ever make a video about guidelines for judging examination artwork for schools? Your voice is very familiar to me.....

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks for your comment. And in answer to your query - no that wasn't me but I must see if I could find such a thing online. I'd be interested to know what was said.

A quote from Paul Rand regarding McKnight- “Many people were doing modern stuff in English. But [E. McKnight] Kauffer was doing the best stuff. There wasn’t anybody anywhere near him except for Cassandre. Kauffer gave Cassandre credit. He told me, “He’s our father.”

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hello again and many thaks for your appreciation and comment. I had not heard that quote from Mr. Rand but I'm glad it lends serious weight to the idea that Cassandre influenced Kauffer's later work.

Good solid workmanlike stuff -- in every genre from transport poster to detective paperbacks!

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hello again and thanks for the comment.

Nicely done, Pete.

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Your comment is much appreciated - thanks.

Refrescante, gracias, desde Guatemala.

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hola y muchas gracias por mirar.

Thank you Mr Pete, 😊😊😊

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

You're welcome, as ever.

Dear Mr Beard, so appreciated your really exclusive and stylish works. In my country all children like illustrations by Yuriy Vasnetsov. Sorry about my English.

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Здравствуйте и большое спасибо за высокую оценку канала. И я надеюсь, вы будете рады узнать, что Юрий Васнецов появится в моей серии «Невоспетые герои» где-то в следующем году. Я уже представил в этой серии некоторых других российских иллюстраторов, и в следующем году их будет больше.

@lorissa41

6 ай бұрын

@@petebeard Thanks, will look forward to watching.

@lorissa41

6 ай бұрын

And enjoying)

ooph amazing artist as usual. thanks!

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hello and I'm glad you appreciate his talent. Thansk for the comment.

I like these simple cubist shapes.thanks

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Thans for the comment. Glad you liked his work.

Thank you. Judging by the American books shown, it appears he was held in high regard by a number of van vechten’s associates

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment. I must admit I wouldn't know Mr. Van Vechten if he bit me - I'm not that much of a reader.

@albertcscs

6 ай бұрын

Like the Langston Hughes cover...

Thank you.

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

You're more than welcome.

Very enjoyable. Is their any chance you could do an explanatory film explaining the different terms and what techniques were. I know little about arttechniques and what the some of the terms mean.

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks a lot for the comment. And I hate to appear unobliging but to do such a thing would take an immense amount of time (not to mention being a bit tedious for many viewers) and my own knowledge of some of the techical processes involved is far from comprehensive. My best suggestion is to do what I did in cases where I was unsure - just google it. Whether its an arty reference such as 'futurist' or more technical as in 'pochoir' you will always get an answer and in almost all cases there will be an instructional video on youtube showing how its done.

Wonderful Pete, you amazed me again. I always thought he was British. Wasn't he included in the Studio edition of British Book Illustrators circa 1920? I no longer have a copy, you probably do, but I think his work was included.

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hi again. Do you mean the Percy Bradshaw book? I must say I've never seen a copy as such. It's quite likely he would have been 'adopted' as an honorary Brit - after all we did it with Dulac, and we don't even like the French.

@albertcscs

6 ай бұрын

You are correct!!!

Thanks👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot for the appreciation.

1:44 I think that bridge is still there in Cassiobury Park, or rather a newer version of it.

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot for your comment.

Pete,s back...nice choice ,sir...😊😊..E

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hello again, and I presume you saw the Earl of Birkenhead's book. I don't know why that title makes me smirk but it does...

@eamonnclabby7067

6 ай бұрын

​@@petebeardwe have that effect on people...just look at Paul O,Grady aka Lily Savage, fellow Birkonian Declan McManus aka Elvis Costello certainly made his mark...😅😅😅

I liked his transport posters.

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hi again and thanks for the comment.

Thumbs up

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Thanks again.

I live in Reigate and that poster is on the walls of our office- I feel a random question coming on as to where the painter was born...

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hello and thanks for the comment. He was born in Montana, which I understand is some distance from your home town. Whether he travelled to the destinations he painted or used photographs I couldn't say.

I recognized severalvof the images, but I didn't know the name.

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

I'm glad to have made the introduction.

Have you ever done Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson? Charlie & Edie Harper were cousins of mine. I used to have lots of their works, although I'e sold or donated many.

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hello again and Robert Lawson featured in unsung heroes 22. I thought Leaf was a writer, though. And to see who I've covered in that series there's a complete list at the end of unsung100 you can save as screenshots. I only discovered the remarkable work of Charlie Harper recently and he will be appearing in my wildlife illustration video when I finally finish it.

@brucealanwilson4121

6 ай бұрын

@@petebeard Leaf was known as a writer, but he did illustrate some of his own books.

~Şa-ha-ne !!~ 🍸 💛💚

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Hi and thanks a lot.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

@petebeard

6 ай бұрын

Thanks once more for the 5 star rating.