Leonard Cusden

Somerset by Maxwell Fraser (original painting for book cover), British Art-Deco

ca. 1934

Oil on canvas on board, signed lower left Image size: 10 1/2 x 14 inches In the course of a long and varied career, Sep Scott exhibited in the Royal Academy and was a member of the Royal Watercolour Society. Scott produced some famous works for the railway poster campaigns in his early years. He became a book illustrator and one of the highest paid and respected of all British poster artists. Towards the end of his life, during a period when his style had gone somewhat out of vogue, he began working for Leonard Matthews and his trio of comics, Knockout, Sun and Thriller Comics Library. At first, Scott was used for picture strips, drawing all the adventures of the pirate hunter, Captain Flame, and proving to be a natural born strip artist. Then, when Matthews took over Thriller Comics Library, Scott began to paint the covers. He drew scores of full colour cover paintings, which would, as Leonard Matthews commented, “grace the walls of any stately home”, and were, in all probability, largely responsible for the success of the Library and the fact that these comics are so valued today amongst collectors. Scott also drew a number of short Robin Hood strips for the Library and some fine full-length adventure picture stories including Jane Eyre, Pride of the Ring, Secret Operator and the splendidly atmospheric, The Dark Shadows of London. For a short period, he also painted the occasional cover - and back page - for Comet and Sun and also contributed some paintings for the first Buck Jones Annual and the covers for both issues of the Billy the Kid Book...

Gouache on paper, unsigned Image size: 12 x 15 ¼ inches (30.5 x 39 cm) Art Deco frame This rare original artwork was used as the book cover for Hugh E. Page's 'Rambles in the Wye Valley' (1951). The Wye Valley is an area of outstanding natural beauty straddling the border between England and Wales. The internationally important protected landscape covers parts of the counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Monmouthshire and is particularly recognised for its limestone gorge scenery and dense native woodlands.

George Leech 1894-1966 Pembrokeshire Coast Oil on canvas , signed Image Size: 39 x 49 inches This is an original artwork for the British Railways Western Region poster. The arti...

Gouache Image size: 5 x 4 inches (13 x 10 cm) Acid free mount and oak frame As well as being an accomplished artist and illustrator, Gerald Spink worked an aeronautical engineer for Hawker Engineering in Kingston-on-Thames. He designed artwork for a number of travel and advertising posters, for such clients as Southern Railways...

Original vintage GWR Great Western Railway poster for Somerset featuring a scenic countryside view by Herbert Alker Tripp (1883-1954) of trees behind and flowers on the grass in front a traditional thatched cottage with a fox hunter wearing a smart red jacket and leaning back to another horse rider behind him, walking around the corner with their dogs along a path next to a hill leading into the distance with chickens in front of the house in the foreground and the information text with the GWR logo below - Somerset England Travel information etc., from associated British & Irish Railways...

Original vintage British Railways poster for Somerset in South West England featuring a fun and colourful pictorial map with illustrations and descriptions of ancient myths and legen...

Samuel Dennis Walley Timmins. English ( b.1900 - d.1951 ). The Road That Takes You Home, 1932. Watercolor On Paper. Signed & Dated Lower Right. Image size 13.6 inches x 9.6 inches (...

A Country Lane, Somerset, dated 1939 by THOMAS WILLIAM ARMES (1894-1963) Large 1939 English Country lane landscape, Somerset, oil on canvas by Thomas William Armes. Good quality an...