Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Artist of the day, August 27: Frank Newbould, a British poster artist (#782)

Frank Newbould (1887 – 1951) was an English poster artist, born in Bradford to John Newbould, chemist, from Pateley Bridge, and Sara Ellen, née Robinson, also from Bradford. He was their only child.

Educated at Bradford College of Art and Camberwell School of Art, he worked mostly in London from the interwar period specialising in travel posters. His clients included the Empire Marketing Board; London Transport and its predecessors; the London & North Eastern, Great Western and London, Midland and Scottish Railways, and the Orient and Cunard Lines.

In 1942 he joined the War Office as assistant to Abram Games, where he produced eleven posters, including a series Your Britain, Fight for it Now.

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1910s, Advertising Holiday Cruises To Norway poster

1922, Blue bell time Kew Gardens poster

1923, Mikeyashworth Royal Mail Steam Packet Company: holiday cruises to the Mediterranean poster

1925, Kingston by Tram poster

1927, Vienna poster

1929, By Tram to Hadley Wood poster

1930, Empire Marketing Board: Buy New Zealand Produce poster

1930, Empire Marketing Board: Dairying in Australia poster

1930, Empire Marketing Board: Honey poster

1930, Empire Marketing Board: Steel Manufacturing in the UK poster

1930, Empire Marketing Board: Wool poster

1930, Empire Marketing Board: Jerusalem, Poster

1930, Railway Poster

1930, LNER Scarborough poster

1930s, LNER British Travel Poster Newbould poster

1932, LNER Electrical plant Poster

1935,  LNER - Durham Poster

1936, Great Western Railway Poster

1945, LNER  Melrose Abbey Scotland poster

1946, HIistoric Bath poster

Advertising Poster Post Office Savings  (unknown date)

Give us the tools and... (wartime work) poster (unknown date)

Keep the wheels turning!: repair work is vital to the war effort poster (unknown date)

LNER -Edinburgh 'MONS MEG' poster (unknown date)

LNER LMS Eastern Scotland Royal Deeside poster (unknown date)

LNER: Nuremburg Via Harwich Railway poster (unknown date)

LNER: Scarborough Railway poster (unknown date)

LNER: The Dee, poster (unknown date)

Norwich The cathedral route poster (unknown date)

Saltburn by the Sea poster (unknown date)

South Devon poster (unknown date)

The Belgian Coast poster (unknown date)

The Wye Valley poster (unknown date)

Timber from Canada poster (unknown date)

Whitley Bay poster (unknown date)

Whitley Bay poster (unknown date)

Your Britain - Fight for it Now (Alfriston Fair) poster (unknown date)

Your Britain - Fight for it Now (Salisbury) poster (unknown date)

Your Britain - Fight for it Now (South Downs) poster (unknown date)

Your Britain - Fight for it Now poster (unknown date)

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