Wednesday 23 August 2023

Charles Pears - Part 4

Charles Pears (1873-1958) was a marine painter and lithographer, born at Pontefract, Yorkshire. Pears worked initially as a black-and-white artist for magazines from the late 1890s, serving as a theatrical caricaturist for Pick-Me-Up. During World War I he was an Official War Artist for the Admiralty, a position he repeated during World War II, and he gradually established a reputation as a sound marine painter with a strong sense of design. He was founder and first president of the RSMA and his work found its way into the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and the Imperial War Museum. However, as a versatile draughtsman he also did many posters and illustrated Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1922, and the works of Charles Dickens. He wrote a number of books, such as From the Thames to the Seine, 1910, and South Coast Cruising from the Thames to Penzance, 1931.He exhibited widely, including the RA, ROI and Fine Art Society. He lived in St. Mawes, Cornwall.

This is part 4 of a 6-part series on the works of Charles Pears:

1927 Southend
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum © TfL

1927 Southend-on-Sea, Underground, L.M.S. and L.N.E Railways
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum © TfL

1928 Bombay
colour lithograph poster 102 x 152 cm
Manchester Art Gallery, UK

1928 Suez Canal (Empire Marketing Board)
colour lithograph poster 102 x 152.5 cm
Manchester Art Gallery, UK

1928 Winter Scene: Ice Skating
colour lithograph poster (proof) 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum © TfL

c1928 Herring Packing
colour lithograph 99 x 150 cm

c1929 Launching of the Empress of Scotland
oil on canvas 71.1 x 91.5 cm

1929 Untitled (Post Sticker Here)
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum

1929 Untitled (Post Sticker Here)
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum

1929 Southend: Crowstone Light
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum © TfL

1929 Untitled (Post Sticker Here)
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum © TfL

1930 Cheap Day Return Tickets
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum © TfL

1930 Gibraltar
colour lithograph poster
The Empire Marketing Board

1930 Southend - Underground
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum © TfL

1930 The Film-lover travels Underground
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum © TfL

1930 The Musician travels Underground
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum © TfL

1930 The Playgoer travels Underground
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum © TfL

1930 To See the Crews in Training - Underground
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum © TfL

c1930 Filey for the Family L.N.E.R.
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
Science Museum Group, London

c1930 Llandudno on the Sunny North Wales Coast
colour lithograph poster101.6 x 127 cm

c1930 Southend-on-Sea
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 127 cm

1931 Eat More Fish
colour lithograph poster 102 x 142.5 cm
Manchester Art Gallery, UK

1935 Eat More Fish
colour lithograph poster 102 x 64 cm
Manchester Art Gallery, UK

1935 Eat More Fish
colour lithograph poster 102 x 64 cm
Manchester Art Gallery, UK

1931 Rahere - An Historical Pageant-Play
colour lithograph poster 101.2 x 63.3 cm
London Transport Museum © TfL

1932 All Hallows Berkyngechirche by the Tower
Underground
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum © TfL

1932 Cathedral church of St Saviour, Southwark
London Underground
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum © TfL

1932 Chapel of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum © TfL

1932 London, Piccadilly Circus
oil on canvas 101.8 x 64.2 cm
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

1932 Southend-on-Sea by Underground
L.M.S. & L.N.E. Railways
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum © TfL

1933 Greenwich by Tramways
colour lithograph poster 152.4 x 101.6 cm
London Transport Museum © TfL

1933 Port of London by Tramways
colour lithograph poster 152.4 x 101.6 cm
London Transport Museum © TfL

1934 Southend-on-Sea by Underground, LMS & L.N.E Railways
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum © TfL

before 1935 A Good Dinner is a Fish Dinner - Eat More Fish
colour lithograph poster 102 x 152.5 cm
Manchester Art Gallery, UK

before 1935 A Ship for Canada in a United Kingdom Shipyard
colour lithograph poster 102 x 152.5 cm
Manchester Art Gallery, UK

before 1935 Apples and Honey from Canadian Orchards
colour lithograph poster 102 x 152.5 cm
Manchester Art Gallery, UK

before 1935 Canadian Apples for the United Kingdom
colour lithograph poster 102 x 64 cm
 Manchester Art Gallery, UK

before 1935 Herring Drifters in the North Sea
colour lithograph 51 x 76 cm
Manchester Art Gallery, UK

before 1935 The Suez Canal
colour lithograph on paper 102 x 152.5 cm
Manchester Art Gallery, UK

before 1935 There's all the health of the sea in fish
colour lithograph poster 102 x 152.5 cm
Manchester Art Gallery, UK

1935 Brighton and Hove
colour lithograph poster 99 x 125 cm

1935 London & Isle of Wight Railway Air Services & Spartan Air Lines
colour lithograph poster (size not given)

1935 Penmaenmawr, North Wales - Travel by LMS
colour lithograph poster 101.5 x 63.5 cm

1935 Southend-on-Sea - Underground
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum © TfL

1935 Twickenham, Walton, Windsor - London Transport
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum © TfL


1935 Twickenham, Walton, Windsor - London Transport
original artwork

c1935 Great Yarmouth & Gorleston-on-Sea
Travel by Rail
colour lithograph poster 125 x 100.7 cm




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