Bill Peckmann &Books &Illustration 02 Jun 2010 08:21 am
Edward Lear Nonsense – 2
- Last week I posted the first half of this book by Edward Lear of his Nonsense poems which was illustrated by Keith Ward. There’s not a lot known about Ward, however I did receive a nice email from Wilbert Plijnaar
which gave me a couple of links and some info. I’ll post that letter at the bottom of the post.
Here’s the rest of the book thanks to the gracious generosity of Bill Peckmann.
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The back inner illustration
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The book’s back cover.
Here’s that email, from Wilbert Plijnaar:
- A few years back fellow story board artist Harry Sabin allowed me
to make copies of a book he had (then) recently purchased ,
illustrated by Keith Ward : “Reynard the Fox”
I was so impressed by the Disneyesq / Walt Kelly- ish, style I found it impossible to believe the artist wasn’t more well known in animation circles.
I showed copies on the Cartoon Retro – and Dutch comic maker blog (both gone) for more information. We found there are many illustrators named Keith Ward , who all have different styles.
Through intensive mouse clicking I was led to some advertising illustrations that looked to be from the same artist ( see below) , learned Ward was amongst other , responsible for the “Dick and Jane ” and “Black Stallion” Illustrations and died in Florida on March 23, 2000 .
Dutch/French comic artist Evert Geradts pointed out that the signature of a landscape painter with the same name was identical to the Keith Ward from Reynard the Fox.
http://www.stewartgalleries.com/paintings.htm
(In the mean time the gallery seems to have taken the paintings offline but maybe they still have an archive?)
Some of the Reynard scans I put on Imageshack still survive, as does one of the commercial illustrations:
If you would like to see the 4 or 5 missing illustrations I will gladly scan them again for you.
Doing a renewed Google search after reading your blog, led me to a Leif Peng’s blog post from 2007 and a more recent one, with many examples and info about Ward.
http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2007/10/keith-ward-1906-2000.html
and
http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2009/06/keith-wards-texaco-fire-chief-pups.html
other links:
http://www.askart.com/askart/w/keith_ward/keith_ward.aspx
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-elsie-the-cow-cook-book-1952-ill-by-keith
Thanks to Wilbert.
