Английская Википедия:Charles Pears
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Charles Pears Шаблон:Post-nominals (9 September 1873 – 28 January 1958) was a British painter, illustrator and artist. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics.[1]
Biography
Born in Pontefract, Yorkshire, he studied nearby at East Hardwick and Pomfret College,[2][3] where he started a lifelong appreciation of Canaletto.[4] Active from 1890, he worked as an illustrator throughout his career. His early illustrated works were included in periodicals such as The Yellow Book, Punch, The Graphic and Salt-Water Poems and Ballads by John Masefield.[2]
Pears is best known as a marine painter, where he often signed his work as Chas Pears. Pears was the first elected President of the Royal Society of Marine Artists.[2] His works were exhibited from 1904 to 1939 in London having moved there, and he also wrote a number of books on small boat cruising.
A commissioned officer in the Royal Marines during the First World War, Pears worked also worked as an official War Artist during both the First and Second World Wars.[2] His Second World War poster entitled "MV San Demetrio gets home" was issued by the Post Office Savings Bank,[5] with the original artwork presently part of the collection of the National Maritime Museum.
From 1913 to 1936, Pears was a prolific poster artist, working for London Underground.[6] He also created posters for the Empire Marketing Board,[7] the Metropolitan Railway, Southern Railway, London, Midland & Scottish Railway, London & North Eastern Railway and Great Western Railway. He latterly created works for British Railways.
Pears moved to Saint Mawes, Cornwall in semi-retirement, and died in Truro on 28 January 1958.[4]
Today his artworks are held in the collections of the London Transport Museum,[6] National Maritime Museum, National Railway Museum,[8] Imperial War Museum,[9] and Tate.[10] He is commemorated in a prize at the Royal Society of Marine Artists, the Charles Pears Memorial Award.[4]
Publications
- Toby and his Little Dog Tan (Hodder & Stoughton, 1903)
- From the Thames to the Seine (Chatto & Windus, London, 1910)
- From the Thames to the Netherlands: A Voyage in the Waterways of Zealand & Down the Belgian Coast (Chatto & Windus, London, 1914)
- South Coast Cruising – from the Thames to Penzance (Edward Arnold, London, 1931)
- Yachting on the Sunshine Coast (Southern Railway Company, 1932)
- Going Foreign (Edward Arnold, London, 1933)
References
External links
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег
<ref>; для сносокTimesObitне указан текст - ↑ Benezit, Emmanuel (2012) Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators , p202, Oxford University Press
- ↑ 4,0 4,1 4,2 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 6,0 6,1 Artist – Charles Pears Шаблон:Webarchive, London Transport Museum website. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
- ↑ Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег
<ref>; для сносокWWWне указан текст - ↑ Collections Online – Pears, Charles Шаблон:Webarchive, Science Museum Group. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
- ↑ Imperial War Museum Collections Search for "Charles Pears", iwm.org.uk Retrieved 8 March 2013.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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