John Hassall - Part 4

In 1900, Hassall opened his own New Art School and School of Poster Design in Kensington, with the help of his former teacher Van Havermaet; he numbered Bert Thomas, H M Bateman and Harry Rountree among his students. In 1908, the school amalgamated with Frank Brangwyn’s London School, but was closed at the outbreak of the First World War. In the post war period, he ran the very successful John Hassall Correspondence School.

For more information about John Hassall see part 1, and for earlier works, see parts 1 - 3 also.

This is part 4 of of a 12-part series on the works of John Hassall:

1903 An ABC by G.E. Farrow, published by Dean & Son, London:

Front Cover

c1903 Hop O' My Thumb 

published by Blackie & Son Limited:

Front Cover

A woman came to the door

Boys forgave their parents and they were very happy to see them again. 

Hop o' my Thumb let the peas fall by the wayside

The poor woman at the roadside

They saw the giant going at a great pace

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1903 Bank, New Forest
watercolour 36 x 21 cm
Exhibited at the John Hassall Centenary Exhibition, Leighton House

before 1903 Robinson Crusoe
colour lithograph poster 76 x 50.8 cm 
Museo Nacional d'Art de Cataunya

before 1903 Robinson Crusoe
colour lithograph poster 76.2 x 50.6 cm 
Museo Nacional d'Art de Cataunya

1903 Ding! Din! Don!
rag book with nine leaves, printed on cloth 27.9 x 20.3 cm

1903 Ding! Din! Don!

1903 Ding! Din! Don!

1903 Fallen Jester
watercolour artwork 51 x 29 cm

1903 Love and a Cottage by Keble Howard cover
published by Grant Richards

1903 Young girl wearing a hat
 ink and coloured chalk 63.5 x 48.2 cm

1904 Drury Lane Pantomime, The White Cat
chromolitograph poster 50.8 x 76.3 cm

1904 Look before you leap
colour postcard

1904 Makes the Hair Grow

John Hassall reigned supreme as the poster king during the first two decades of the twentieth century, but some of his designs were rejected by nervous clients. Hassall ensured they were reproduced in issues of The Poster magazine, and here, as a series in The Sketch magazine.

1904 "Some rejected posters" by John Hassall
Makes the Hair Grow
black and white lithograph
© Illustrated London News Ltd / Mary Evans