David Gentleman

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David Gentleman (b. 11 March 1930) is an English artist, illustrator and designer.

Gentleman studied at the St Albans School of Art and the Royal College of Art, under Edward Bawden and John Nash. Gentleman has worked in various media - watercolour, lithography, wood engraving - and at scales ranging from postage stamps to platform-length murals for Charing Cross tube station (London). He has written and illustrated six books about cities and countries, several for children, and two about his own work. Throughout his working life he has also travelled widely, drawing and painting throughout Britain, Europe and India.

His early drawings and wood engravings included paperback covers, book illustrations and designs for textiles and wallpapers. In the sixties he illustrated American limited edition books and four children's’ books, and designed the first of 100 postage stamps; in the seventies, he made many lithographs, and designed posters for the National Trust and the Charing Cross tube station mural. In the eighties and nineties he wrote and illustrated in watercolour David Gentleman’s Britain and five companion books on London, the British coastline, Paris, India, and Italy. From 2003-7 he designed a number of anti-Iraq war protest posters.

There have been many exhibitions of his watercolours and lithographs. His work is in public collections including Tate Britain, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Fitzwilliam Museum. He is a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) and a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). In 2007 he was awarded the Prince Philip Designers Prize.

Contents 1 Bibliography 1.1 Surveys of Gentleman's work 1.2 Books by Gentleman 1.3 Books for children by Gentleman 1.4 Books illustrated by Gentleman 1.5 Solo exhibitions of watercolours by Gentleman 2 External links

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Surveys of Gentleman's work

• Artwork. London: Ebury, 2002. ISBN 0-09-188652-X
• The wood engravings of David Gentleman. Montgomery: Esslemont, 2000. ISBN 0-907014-17-8

[edit] Books by Gentleman

• Bridges on the backs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1961.
• A cross for Queen Eleanor: The story of the building of the mediaeval Charing Cross, the subject of the decorations of the Northern Line platforms of the new Charing Cross Underground Station. London: London Transport, 1979. ISBN 0-85329-101-2
• David Gentleman's Britain. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1982. ISBN 0-396-08145-2 London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982. ISBN 0-297-78126-X, 1985. ISBN 0-297-78621-0
• David Gentleman's London. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985. ISBN 0-297-78574-5 Dodd, Mead, 1985. ISBN 0-396-08652-7 London: Orion, 1999. ISBN 0-7538-0700-9
• David Gentleman's Coastline. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. ISBN 0-297-79314-4
• David Gentleman's Paris. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991. ISBN 0-340-58160-3 ISBN 0-340-51869-3 Paris: Gallimard,1991. ISBN 2-07-056619-6 London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000. ISBN 1-84188-052-3
• David Gentleman's India. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1994. Delhi: Tara Press, 2005. ISBN 81-87943-71-8
• David Gentleman's Italy. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1997 ISBN 0-340-64912-7, 1998 ISBN 0-340-64913-5
• Design in miniature. London: Studio Vista, 1972. ISBN 0-289-79791-8 New York: Watson-Gupthill, 1972. ISBN 0-8230-1322-7
• A special relationship. London: Faber and Faber, 1987. ISBN 0-571-14992-8
• Westminster Abbey. (With Edward Carpenter.) London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. ISBN 0-297-79314-4

[edit] Books for children by Gentleman

• Fenella in Greece. London: Cape, 1967.
• Fenella in Ireland. London: Cape, 1967.
• Fenella in the south of France. London: Cape, 1967.
• Fenella in Spain. London: Cape, 1967.

[edit] Books illustrated by Gentleman

• Betjeman, John. Illustrated poems of John Betjeman. John Murray, 1994. ISBN 0-7195-5248-6, 1997. ISBN 0-7195-5532-9
• Blunden, Edmund. The midnight skaters. Ed. C. Day Lewis. London: Bodley Head, 1968.
• Brooke, Justin, and Edith Brooke. Suffolk Prospect. London: Faber & Faber, 1963.
• Brown, John Russell. Shakespeare and his theatre. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1982. ISBN 0-688-00850-X Harmondsworth: Kestrel, 1982.
• Brown, John Russell. Shakespeare's theatre. New York: Harper Collins, 1982.
• Clare, John. The shepherd's calendar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964.
• Evans, George Ewart. The crooked scythe: Anthology of oral history. London: Faber & Faber, 1993. 1995. ISBN 0-571-17194-X
• Evans, George Ewart. The pattern under the plough: Aspects of the folk-life of East Anglia. London: Faber & Faber, 1971. ISBN 0-571-08977-1
• Evans, George Ewart. The strength of the hills: An autobiography. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1985. ISBN 0-571-13550-1
• Evans, George Ewart. Where beards wag all: The relevance of the oral tradition. London: Faber & Faber, 1970. ISBN 0-571-08411-7
• "Francine" (Cosette Vogel de Brunhoff). "Vogue" French cookery. London: Peerage, 1984. ISBN 0-907408-86-9
• Gray, Patience, and Primrose Boyd. Plats du jour; or, foreign food. Harmondsworth, Middx: Penguin, 1957. London: Prospect, 1990. ISBN 0-907325-459 London: Persephone, 2007. ISBN 9781903155608
• Grigson, Geoffrey. The Shell book of roads. London: Ebury, 1964.
• Haggard, F. Rider. King Solomon's mines. Barre, Mass.: Imprint Society, 1970.
• Hoban, Russell. The dancing tigers London: Jonathan Cape, 1977.
• Hoban, Russell. The dancing tigers. London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. London: Red Fox, 1991.
• Hooker, Jeremy, ed. Inwards where all the battle is: A selection of Alun Lewis's writings from India. Newtown, Powys: Gwasg Gregynog, 1997. ISBN 0-948714-77-8 ISBN 0-948714-73-5
• Hornby, John. Gypsies. London: Oliver & Boyd, 1965.
• Jonson, Ben. The key keeper: A masque for the opening of Britain's Burse, April 19, 1609. Tunbridge Wells: Foundling Press, 2002.
• Kipling, Rudyard. The jungle book. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1968.
• Langstaff, John M. The 'Golden Vanity'. New York: Harcourt Brace, Jovanovich 1972. ISBN 0-15-231500-4 Tadworth: World's Work, 1973. ISBN 0-437-54106-1
• Langstaff, John M. St George and the dragon. New York: Atheneum, 1973.
• Lees, Jim. The ballads of Robin Hood. Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1977.
• Moreau, Reginald E. The departed village: Berrick Salome at the turn of the century. Oxford University Press, 1968. ISBN 0-19-211186-8
• Notestein, Lucy Lilian. Hill towns of Italy. London: Hutchinson, 1963. Boston: Little, Brown, 1963.
• Pudney, John. Bristol fashion: Some account of the earlier days of Bristol Aviation. London: Putnam, 1960.
• Simon, André L. What about wine? All the answers. London: Newman Neame, 1953.
• Stallworthy, Jon. A familiar tree. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. ISBN 0-19-520050-0
• Steel, Flora Annie, ed. Tales of the Punjab, told by the people. London: Bodley Head, 1973.
• Stockton, Frank. The griffin and the minor canon. (With Charles Dickens, "The magic fishbone.") London: Bodley Head, 1960.
• Vallans, William. A tale of two swannes, wherein is comprehended the original and increase of the River Lee, commonly called the Ware river, together with the antiquities of sundrie places and townes seated upon the same. London: The Lion and Unicorn Press, 1953.
• Ward, Aileen, ed. The poems of John Keats. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1966.
• Woodgate, Leslie. The Penguin part song book. Harmondsworth, Middx: Penguin, 1955.
• Wordsworth, William. The solitary song: Poems for young readers. London: Bodley Head, 1970. ISBN 0-370-01118-X
• Wyss, Johann. Swiss Family Robinson. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1963.

[edit] Solo exhibitions of watercolours by Gentleman

• India, Mercury Gallery, 1970.
• South Carolina, Mercury Gallery, 1973.
• Kenya and Zanzibar, Mercury Gallery, 1976.
• Nauru and Samoa, Mercury Gallery, 1981.
• Britain, Mercury Gallery, 1982.
• London, Mercury Gallery, 1985.
• The British Coastline, Mercury Gallery, 1988.
• Paris, Mercury Gallery, 1991.
• India, Mercury Gallery, 1994.
• Italy, Mercury Gallery, 1987.
• City of London, Mercury Gallery, 2000.
• David Gentleman: from Andalusia to Zanzibar, Fine Art Society, 2004.
• Recent work, Fine Art Society , 2007.

[edit] External links

• "Fifty years of looking and learning for artist David" (interview)
• "The stamp of a master", Guardian interview by John Cunningham, prompted by the publication of Artwork.
• In the spotlight, an interview by Gordon Milne, about Gentleman's stamp designs
• Interview in The Hindu about David Gentleman's India
• "Outlining India, Gentleman style"
• List of Gentleman's stamp designs
• Stamping an identity on the anti-war movement, interview in Socialist Worker
• Blair's US loyalty is irrational, a newspaper article by Gentleman
• "Scenes from the streets" Exhibition review Camden New Journal