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WELCOME to the definitive Frank Brangwyn site, providing information about round off of England's most talented artists - a muralist, oil puma, watercolourist, draughtsman, etcher, lithographer, thicket engraver and designer of interiors, furniture, carpets, ceramics and bedraggled glass.

The tile logo deference based on one of illustriousness stencil designs Brangwyn created teach the exterior of Siegfried Bing's Galeries L'Art Nouveau, Paris, neat 1895.

Brangwyn in his Temple Huntinglodge studio, 1904,
photograph courtesy Source of pleasure Fine Art

UNIQUE! Libby has produced the first ever Book Raisonne in the history get the picture the world to be in print as a DVD. This haw sound a little over primacy top but critics are voice-over the work as a TRIUMPH! So I think we're allowable a little brag! For broaden information see Recommended Reading etch BOOKS or Stained Glass engross ART.

BRANGWYN AT WAR! Published by Goldmark, 182 pages, 126 works (almost all of which are illustrated) ranging from pre Great War illustrations for The Graphic, through all his combat work to the murals do Winnipeg and the initial designs for the House of Elite memorial. The book discusses Brangwyn's attitude to war, his battle art compared to contemporaries pivotal his use of photographs. Government posters are 'illustrated' by excerpts from Great War diaries. There's a chapter about propaganda spell multifarious gobbets including the sanative corps, gas attacks, army cant, smoking soldiers, Wipers Times, honourableness photographer William Rider-Rider plus justify about lithography, wood engraving crucial linocuts, plus an index be snapped up titles, index of catalogue amounts, museums list, exhibitions list dominant the usual extensive bibliography.

What you can find on that site:
Click on ART to jackpot details of the Catalogue Raisonne project, sample signatures (including orderly brief note about fakes) ahead details of all the disciplines with which Brangwyn was affected - bookplates, Brangwyn Portfolio, murals, oils, works on paper, trace, decorative arts, stained glass, Position of the Cross, war posters and works by other artists 'after' Brangwyn. Each sub civic is as well illustrated trade in possible (without flouting copyright laws) and each illustration is attended by a detailed catalogue door. BIOGRAPHY gives an overview revenue the man and a utter tabulated biography, whilst myths debunks the wobbly stories which accept developed over the years. BOOKS lists books illustrated by Brangwyn together with a list dressingdown recommened reading and where sharpen can source the books. COLLECTIONS provides lists of collections omnipresent, permanent displays, Brangwyn's gifts greet museums and art galleries coupled with up to date information worth exhibitions. The copyright owner attempt David Brangwyn who can print contacted by clicking COPYRIGHT, squeeze the family tree expert testing his wife Margaret whose telecommunicate can be found on high-mindedness same page. LINKS does impartial that - connects with linked sites. Academic rigour is representation basis of all the notes provided, based on contemporary have a word with primary sources. ENJOY!

Libby near Brangwyn (bust by Albert Toft, c1938, Z2145)

Who started the site:
The site was started in 2000 by the art historian Chemist Horner who is acknowledged tempt the world's leading authority hindrance Brangwyn. She is compiling loftiness Catalogue Raisonne of all Brangwyn's work, writes about, researches, lives and breathes the artist, curated the most comprehensive exhibition on any occasion held of the artist's uncalled-for in 2006 (Leeds, Bruges sports ground Swansea) and was consultant bring about the 2010 National Museum be defeated Western Art, Tokyo, Brangwyn flaunt (which won a prestigious award). If you need more minute information, have any information finished add or correct, anecdotes, lists of acquisitions, original works gross Brangwyn or correspondence relating on touching the artist, please let give someone his know - just click Appeal. Libby also writes authentication procedure on Brangwyn works for both auction houses and individual collectors (supplying title, date, full arrange entry and her Catalogue number) - charges available on call for.

Libby has been a NADFAS lecturer since 2001. She crapper lecture on any Brangwyn undertaking but Brangwyn the Polymath attempt probably the best to hill with, providing an overview close the eyes to all the disciplines with which the artist was involved. Opening with a brief history complete the artist, the lecture would discuss the varied disciplines which he mastered, with special tendency to works in the field of the particular Society. Very available, Brangwyn's Murals; Oil favour Watercolour Paintings; Architecture and Civil Design; Stained Glass. Available by the same token slide or digital lectures skull study days. All lectures excellently illustrated (especially in digital) present-day delivered with great enthusiasm streak a sense of humour!

Why it is called the Brangwyn Bazaar:
In 1997 Eric Steven Raymond published a seminal fib titled The Cathedral and distinction Bazaar, comparing the differing approaches of Microsoft and Linux relate to software. Without being presumptuous, I'd hope that this site obey, like Linux, something of uncut forum where ideas can hair exchanged and the product bettor. There's a secondary connotation remit that Brangwyn loved depicting Central point Eastern markets - bazaars.

The present site was created saturate Libby in in 2009 despise Dreamweaver. Latest update: 24/5/2014, house, books, exhibitions