Monday, 11 August 2025

Frank Newbould - part 1


Frank Newbould was a poster and black-and-white artist, born in 1887 in Bradford, UK. He studied at the local College of Art and won several silver and bronze medals in national competitions. During and after World War I he was a black-and-white artist, working for such publications as Passing Show, but more profitable poster work attracted him, and he became one of the most prolific and distinguished practitioners in the inter-war period. Initially he worked for Morton Studios in Fleet Street, then set up his own studio. His posters for Orient Lines and London North Eastern Railway were notable, especially landscapes studied on location. Exhibited Chenil Galleries and lived in London. He died in 1951.

This is part 1 of a 4-part series on the works of Frank Newbould: 

c1920 Hamburg Via Grimsby Three Times Weekly L.N.E.R.
colour lithograph 99 x 63 cm

c1922 Laburnum
gouache artwork 48 x 35.7 cm
London Transport Museum

1922 The Cactus House Kew Gardens
colour lithograph 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum

1922 Rhododendron Time
colour lithograph 76.2 x 50.8 cm
London Transport Museum

1922 Hops
 colour lithograph 102 x 63.4 cm
London Transport Museum

1922 Harvest Time
colour lithograph 101.6 x 63.5 cm
 London Transport Museum

1922 Daffodil Time Hampton Court
colour lithograph 76.3 x 51 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1922 Blue Bell Time Kew Gardens
colour lithograph 76.2 x 50.8 cm
London Transport Museum

1922 Blackberry Time
London Transport
colour lithograph 101.6 x 63.5 cm


1922 Autumn Tints
colour lithograph 101.6 x63.5 cm
London Transport Museum

c1923 The Dee, East Coast Route From King's Cross L.N.E.R.
colour lithograph 101 x 125.75 cm
(Note: L.N.E.R. is London North Eastern Railway)

c1923 Holiday Cruises To The Mediterranean by R.M.S.P. "Arcadian"
colour lithograph 100.6 x 62.9 cm

c1923 Dunbar L.E.R.
colour lithograph100.7 x 63.5 cm

1923 Holiday Cruises To Norway by R.M.S.P. "Arcadian"
colour lithograph 101 x 62.5 cm

1924 Chestnut Time at Hampton Court
colour lithograph 57.5 x 50.5 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1925 Southend-on-Sea
colour lithograph 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum

1925 Kingston by tram
colour lithograph 76.2 x 50.8 cm

1925 Hillingdon for walks
colour lithograph for London Transport 76 x 51 cm

1925 Central Europe via Harwich L.N.E.R.
colour lithograph 100 x 126 cm

1925 Bournville 1925 Transport
booklet issued by Cadbury chocolate company
colour lithograph cover

1925 Berlin  Via Harwich Twice A Day L.N.E.R.
colour lithograph 100.5 x 124.5 cm

1925 Waltham Cross by Tram
colour lithograph 76.2 x 50.8 cm
London Transport Museum

1925 Tour the Empire at Wembley
colour lithograph 102 x 158 cm

1925 Southend-on-Sea, Bracing Air, Abundant Amusements
colour lithograph 120 x 100 cm

1925 Southend-on-Sea
colour lithograph 101.6 x 63.5 cm
London Transport Museum

c1925 Vienna via Harwich Twice a Day L.N.E.R.
colour lithograph

c1925 Orient Line Cruises 20,000 Ton Steamers
colour lithograph 102 x 63 cm

c1926 Woodhall Spa, It's Quicker by Rail
colour lithograph 97 x 61 cm

1927 Cadbury's chocolate promotional book illustrated by Frank Newbould:

The Factory in a Garden
Cadbury Bros Ltd. Bournville

Bournville Works

The new dining block, Bournville
colour lithograph

Chief depot of the Cadbury Buying Agency, Accra, Gold Coast

Cocoa breaking in a Trinidad Plantation





Friday, 8 August 2025

Duccio - part 2

Duccio was one of the most important painters of 14th-century Italy. He ran a large workshop which shaped generations of Sienese artists. His pupils were influential on Florentine art.

Duccio's date of birth is not known but he was active in Siena by 1278, and spent most of his working life there. He is unusual among medieval artists for being well documented. Duccio's art is based o Byzantine sources, but was deeply influenced by the sculpture of the Pisani and by French Gothic metalwork. His work is both decorative in the use of line, colour and pattern, and highly expressive. He is less interested in volume, than his younger contemporary Giotto.


For earlier works and for more biographical notes, see part 1 also.

This is part 2 of 2-part post on the works of Duccio:


1311 completed Maestà: Virtual reconstruction of the front side of the Maestà. Top row (arches):


The Angel Gabriel
oil on wood panel 30 x 18.3 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Main panel, Madonna with Angels and Saints:




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Arched Panel (The wand in the Angel's hand identifies him as an archangel. With these wands the archangels expelled Satan from heaven, thereby securing their privileged position as messengers of God):


Archangel (workshop of Duccio)
 egg tempera and tooled gold on panel with vertical grain
24.4 x 17.1 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

Top row of panels:

The announcement of the death to the Virgin
41.5 x 54 cm
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena

Mary's Farewell to John
41.5 x 54 cm
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena

Farewell to the Apostles
41.5 x 54 cm
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena

Dormitio Virginis
40 x 45.5 cm
Museo dell'OPera del Duomo, Siena

Funeral of Mary
58 x 52.5 cm
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena

Burial of Mary
41 x 54.5 cm
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena

Bottom row of panels:

The Nativity with the Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel
tempera on single poplar panel (left side image)
43 × 16 cm (centre) 43 x 43.9 cm (right) 43 x 16 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Birth of Christ
43.8 x 44.5 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Adoration of the Magi
42.5 x 43.5 cm

Soloman
42.5 x 16 cm
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena

Presentation at the temple
42.5 x 43 cm
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena

Prophet Malachi
42.5 x 16 cm
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena

Massacre of the Innocents
42.5 x 43.5 cm
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena

Prophet Jeremiah
42.5 x 16 cm
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena

Flight into Egypt
42.5 x 44 cm
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena

Prophet Hosea
42.5 x 16 cm
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena

Dispute in the temple 
42.5 x 43 cm
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena

Virtual reconstruction of the front side of the Maestà

Appearance behind closed doors
39.5 x 51.5 cm
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena 

Doubting Thomas
55.5 x 50.5 cm
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena

Apparition on Lake Tiberias
36.5 x 47.5 cm
Museo dell' Opera del Duomo, Siena

Apparition on the Mount of Galilee
36.5 x 47.5 cm
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena

Appearance at the Apostles' Supper
39.5 x 51.5 cm
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena

Pentecost
37.5 x 42.5 cm 
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena 

The Predella:

Temptation of Christ
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena

Temptation on the mountain
43 x 46 cm
The Frick Collection, New York

The Calling of the Apostles Peter and Andrew
43.5 x 46 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Marriage at Cana 
43.5 x 46.5 cm
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena

Christ and the Samaritan
43.5 x 46 cm
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

The Healing of the Man born Blind
45.1 x 46.7 cm
National Gallery, London

The Transfiguration
48.5 x 51.4 cm
The National Gallery, London

Top row of panels:

Christ before Pilate again 
50 x 57 cm
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena

Crucifixion
100 x 76 cm

Burial
50 x 53 cm
Museo dell'OPera del Duomo, Siena

Bottom row of panels
Museo dell'OPera del Duomo, Siena:

Christ Entering Jerusalem

Last Supper and Washing of the Feet
100 x 53.5 cm

Christ Separates from the Apostles and the Betrayal of Judas
99.5 x 53.5 cm
 

Prayer in Gethsemane and Kiss of Judas
99.5 x 76 cm 

 Christ before Pilate and Accusation of the Pharisees
98 x 57 cm
 

Christ before Caiaphas and Christ mocked
98.5 x 53.5 cm

Betrayal of Peter and Christ before the High Priest
99 x 53.5 cm

Christ returns to Pontius Pilate and Christ before Herod
100 x 57 cm