Brian Sanders: "... five decades in the illustrative arts"

Today, guest author Bryn Havord concludes his article on English illustrator Brian Sanders.The early colour supplements produced in Britain gave illustrators excellent shop windows for their work. This series, in the prestigious Sunday Times Magazine featured the best shots made by ten great tennis players. The art director was Michael Rand.Michael Rand also commissioned Brian to paint a series of cars used in fiction. The Aston Martin used in...

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Brian Sanders: "... suddenly in the “Swinging Sixties”"

Guest author Bryn Havord continues his article on English illustrator Brian Sanders.During the ’60s Brian’s work was also used in all of the earliest newspaper colour supplements, and Stanley Kubrick employed him to record with paintings and drawings made on the set, the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey.(Above: Round 65. One of a series of experimental collages that helped persuade Stanley Kubrick to offer Brian the opportunity of portraying the making...

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Brian Sanders and women’s magazine illustration in the early to mid-’60s

Guest author Bryn Havord continues his article on English illustrator Brian Sanders.Women’s magazine illustration was at its height at this time, and most of the magazines were buying a lot of second rights material from the American greats such as Joe Bowler, Coby Whitmore and Joe de Mers. Their work had a considerable influence on the English editors, art editors, and the illustrators themselves.(Above: The final illustration that Brian produced...

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Brian Sanders' struggle "to advance stylistically away from what they did so brilliantly."

Guest author Bryn Havord continues his article on English illustrator Brian Sanders.Heavily influenced by Ben Shahn and David Stone Martin he found it difficult to advance stylistically away from what they did so brilliantly. Much to his agent’s consternation he collected his samples, destroying all bar the one shown below, of him preparing ideas for his first printed Christmas card in 1959. He went drawing in a breaker’s yard at the Elephant and...

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Brian Sanders

Guest author Bryn Havord introduces the early work of English illustrator Brian Sanders, covering the first decade of his work, from the end of 1959 to 1970.My first meeting with Brian was during the 1960s, when as art director of Woman’s Mirror, I commissioned him to illustrate a ten-part serial for the magazine. During the past year we have renewed our acquaintanceship becoming friends, and realizing that we have much history in common.(Above:...

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David Klein

1960s designer/illustrator, David Klein, is the latest subject of Toby Neighbors' excellent blog, Illostribute.com You'll find an extensive biography of the artist, many more examples of his work and some wonderful tribute illustrations by some of today's talented illustrators at Illostribute.com* Many thanks to Heritage Auctions for allowing me to use some David Klein scans from their online archiv...

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Everything Don Draper Ever Knew About Love He Learned from Al Parker

* Thanks to Charlie Allen and Marvin Friedman, who both contributed tearsheets from their clip files for this post.My Al Parker Flickr s...

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