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David Gentleman
British artist
David William GentlemanRDI (born 11 March 1930) is an English artist. He studied art and painting at the Royal College of Art under Edward Bawden and John Nash. He has worked in watercolour, lithography and wood engraving, at scales ranging from platform-length murals for Charing Cross Underground Station in London to postage stamps and logos.
His themes include paintings of landscape and environmental posters to drawings of street life and protest placards. He has written and illustrated many books, mostly about countries and cities. He also designed a number of British commemorative postage stamps.
Biography
Gentleman was born in London and grew up in Hertford, the son of Scottish artists Tom Gentleman and Winifred Gentleman who had met at the Glasgow School of Art.[1] He attended Hertford Grammar School and the St Albans School of Art, did national service as an education sergeant in the Royal Army Educational Corps in charge of an art room in Cornwall, and then went to the Royal College of Art. He stayed there as a ju
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For the best part of six decades, David Gentleman has been working steadily as a designer-illustrator in a tradition of his own making. His is a one-man practice, flexible and versatile enough to embrace identity design for British Steel and the National Trust, stamps for the Royal Mail, wood engravings and watercolours for advertising and book covers – from the New Penguin Shakespeare series to the Highway Code. Not to mention fabric and wallpaper designs, book illustrations, posters and a 100-metre mural for Charing Cross Tube station. His popular travel books, including David Gentleman’s Coastline (1988) and David Gentleman’s India (1994) are complete works of graphic reportage, featuring his paintings, words and layout, and he has also written and illustrated several children’s books.
It would be tempting to describe Gentleman as a pillar of the British establishment were it not for his anti-establishment leanings, expressed in projects such as the polemical A Special Relationship (Faber, 1987), a graphic howl of protest against the US military’s use of British
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Artist, designer, author, illustrator and printmaker, born and lived in London, his father being the artist Tom Gentleman, who gave him informal instruction. He attended St Albans Art School, 1947–8 and 1950, then Royal College of Art, 1950–3, under Edward Bawden and John Nash. Gentleman was a junior tutor there, 1953–5, then freelanced. Books illustrated included Plats du Jour, 1957; Bridges on the Backs, 1961; The Pattern Under the Plough, 1966; covers for New Penguin Shakespeare, 1968–78; Westminster Abbey, 1987; and The Illustrated Poems of John Betjeman, 1995. Gentleman was illustrator and editor of The Crooked Scythe, 1993. He wrote and illustrated Design in Miniature, 1972; David Gentleman’s Britain, 1982; David Gentleman’s London, 1985; David Gentleman’s Coastline, 1988; David Gentleman’s Paris, 1991; David Gentleman’s India, 1994; David Gentleman’s Italy, 1997; and David Gentleman Wood Engravings, 2000.
His series of Fenella books for children appeared in 1967. He illustrated and design
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