More than Pooh and Mr Toad
E.H. Shepard is still best known for his illustrations for the Winnie-the-Pooh books and The Wind in the Willows, but a new exhibition aims to show that there was a lot more to his work than those much-loved drawings. The Other E.H. Shepard, which is at the Chris Beetles Gallery in London from this Wednesday […]
The Round-up
The writer and broadcaster Brian Sibley reviews the latest Cartoon Museum exhibition, Animal Crackers, and highlights cartoons by Procartoonists.org members Ian Baker, above, Royston Robertson and Ralph Steadman as being among the best exhibits. Read Brian’s write-up here. The exhibition runs until October 21. Sticking with animals, the Chris Beetles Gallery in London is running an exhibition devoted […]
Remembering Ronald Searle
The Chris Beetles Gallery is hosting the exhibition Ronald Searle Remembered, in memory of the cartoonist who died in December. The show, which starts today, features more than 400 works by Searle, who is widely regarded as the greatest cartoonist of the 20th century. It runs until June 9. It includes some of the clandestine […]
Blake lets them eat cake
A selling exhibition of Quentin Blake drawings, called Chocolate Fudge Banana Cake and Other Delicacies, opens at the Chris Beetles Gallery in St James’s, London, on Sunday (December 11). Blake will be at the gallery on the opening day and there will be music from the Jelly Rollers and, the organisers promise, a “sweet mountain”. […]
The Illustrators 2011
The Illustrators 2011 opens at the Chris Beetles Gallery in St James’s, London, this weekend, and runs until January 7. The gallery’s annual winter show features more than 85 much-loved and respected illustrators and cartoonists from 1837 to the present day. Contemporary cartoonists in The Illustrators 2011 include PCO members Jonathan Cusick, above, and John […]
Hard Times at Chris Beetles Gallery
Hard Times, a new exhibition by the Times cartoonist Peter Brookes, opens at the Chris Beetles Gallery in St James’s, London, today and runs until November 5. The selling show features more than 120 of Brookes’ most recent editorial cartoons from The Times, and ties in with the launch of his new book, also called […]
Powerful stuff goes on display
Artwork from the political cartoon collection of Jeffrey Archer is to go on show for the first time, at the Monnow Valley Arts Centre, Herefordshire, from Saturday (September 3). Image of Power will feature 100 cartoons owned by the writer and former Tory MP who has been collecting cartoons for 25 years. They include this […]
Beetles does cricket
‘‘… and once again we have interruption of play caused by movement behind the bowler’s arm.’’ Wit and Wisden: A Celebration of Cricket opens at the Chris Beetles Gallery in London tomorrow (June 1). It features more than 200 paintings and cartoons from the past 200 years celebrating the clunk of leather on willow. Visitors […]
Music to the ears of Hoffnung fans
Sometimes a cartoonist becomes inextricably likned with a particular topic and for Gerard Hoffnung it was music. A tuba player himself, Hoffnung (1925-1959) made music the central subject of his work. He was born in Berlin, but Hoffnung’s family moved to London to escape the Nazis in 1939. Though he died only 20 years later, […]