ART & ARTISTS: 2024-02-04

Friday 9 February 2024

Fred Taylor - part 1

Fred Taylor (1875-1963) was a painter and poster designer, born in London. He studied at Académie Julian in Paris, Goldsmiths’ College School of Art and in Italy, having won a gold medal and travelling scholarship. He did a considerable volume of work for railway and shipping companies and was an official camouflage artist during World War II. He was commissioned by the railways to promote the architectural delights of regional cities, and had the good fortune to be commissioned by the Royal Mail Steamship Company to travel to South America recording his impressions of the voyage. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and other art society exhibitions, Public galleries in Liverpool and Bristol hold his work. In addition to poster design he designed murals for the Underwriters’ Room at Lloyds and for the Red Lacquer Room at Austin Reed.He lived in London where he was a member of Art Workers’ Guild from 1924.

This is part 1 of 4-part series on the works of Fred Taylor:

c1905 Manfield's Boots
colour lithograph poster
V&A Museum, London

1909 Selfridge's, Open To The World
line-block and letterpress poster
V&A Museum, London

c1909 Ensignette
process engraving poster
V&A Museum, London

c1909 The Criterion
process engraving
V&A Museum, London

1910 Underground - The only to the Theatre
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum

1912 Christmas
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum

1912 Malden for Walks, by Tram
colour lithograph poster 76.2 x 50.8 cm
London Transport Museum

1912 Underground for the Sunday Concerts
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum

1913 'Appy 'Ampstead by the Underground
Humours of London No.7
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm

1913 The Right Way to Get On
monotone lithograph poster 76 x 50.5 cm
London Transport Museum

1913 The Wrong Way to Get Off
monotone lithograph poster 76 x 50.5 cm
London Transport Museum

1914 Your next Move and your best is on to Underground
colour lithograph poster 101.1 x 63.1 cm
London Transport Museum

1914 Book to Hampstead or Golders Green
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum

1914 Chigwell - Route 101
two-colour lithograph poster 76.2 x 50.8 cm
London Transport Museum

1914 Enfield by Tram
colour lithograph poster 76.2 x 50.8 cm
London Transport Museum

1914 Epsom - Route 107
colour lithograph poster 76.2 x 50.8 cm
London Transport Museum

1914 Essex Marshes - Route 93 from Stratfoed Broadway
colour lithograph poster 76.2 x 50.8 cm
London Transport Museum

1914 Farningham - Route 151
Underground Electric Railways Company
colour lithograph poster 76 x 51 cm

1914 Hainault Forest - Route 101A
colour lithograph poster 76.2 x 50.8 cm
London Transport Museum

1914 Hampton Court by Tram
colour lithograph poster 76.2 x 50.8 cm
London Transport Museum

1914 Kingston Regatta by Tram to Kingston Bridge
colour lithograph poster 76.2 x 50.8 cm
London Transport Museum

1914 Our Warriors
monotone lithograph poster
(size not given)
London Transport Museum

1914 Reigate - Route No.160
colour lithograph poster 76.2 x 50.8 cm
London Transport Museum

1914 Stanmore - Route 142
colour lithograph poster 76.2 x 50.8 cm
London Transport Museum

1914 Underground - Book the Hampstead or Golders Green
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum

1914 Underground for the Sunday Concerts
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum

1914 Waltham Cross by Tram
colour lithograph poster 76.2 x 50.8 cm
London Transport Museum

1915 1,209 Men of these Companies have joined The Colours
colour lithograph poster. 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum

1916 In Rio de Janeiro Fruit Market
original artwork
gouache 15.5 x 24.5 cm

1916 Some Fares from this Station
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum

1916 St Albans Route (Bus 84)
colour lithograph poster 74.6 x 49.8 cm
London Transport Museum

1916 St Albans Route (Bus 84)
colour lithograph poster 76.2 x 50.8 cm
London Transport Museum

1916 To make this Earth our Hermitage
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 152.4 cm
London Transport Museum

1920 To make this Earth our Hermitage
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 152.4 cm
London Transport Museum

1918 London Memories - Hampstead
colour lithograph poster 76.2 x 50.8 cm
London Transport Museum

1918 London Memories - Kew Gardens
colour lithograph poster 76.2 x 50.8 cm
London Transport Museum

1920 Newlands Corner
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 152.4 cm
London Transport Museum

1920 The Promenade Concerts by Underground to Oxford Circus
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum

1920 Up River - London Underground
colour lithograph poster 101.6 x 127 cm
London Transport Museum

Wednesday 7 February 2024

Giotto - part 6

Giotto di Bondone c1265-1337 was the first of the great Italian painters, active in Florence. He decorated chapels and churches in Assisi, Rome, Padua, Florence, and Naples with frescoes and panel paintings. Because little of his life and few of his works are documented, attributions and a stylistic chronology of his paintings remain problematic and often highly speculative. His works in Rome include the heavily restored mosaic of Christ Walking on the Water over the entrance to St. Peter’s Basilica, and an altarpiece from St. Peter’s, now in the Vatican Museum. In Padua, his fresco of the Last Judgment decorates the western wall of the Arena Chapel, and the rest of the chapel is covered with his narrative frescoes featuring scenes from the lives of the Virgin Mary and Christ. Later in his career he executed frescoes in four chapels in the church of Santa Croce in Florence, two of which survive. In 1334 he was appointed surveyor of Florence Cathedral; his design for the campanile was altered after his death. The most important extant panel painting attributed to him is The Madonna in Glory (c. 1305–10). He achieved great fame in his lifetime, and he is considered the father of European painting for breaking with the impersonal stylisations of Byzantine art and introducing new ideals of naturalism and humanity, three-dimensional space, and three-dimensional form. The course of Italian painting was dominated by his students and followers. His work points to the innovations of the Renaissance style that developed a century later.

For earlier works by Giotto see parts 1 - 5 also.

This is part 6 of a 6-part series on the works of Giotto.

The Last Judgment - frescoes: