celebrating

60 years
in the business!

ARTIST PARTNERS
Contact: Christine Isteed
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7401 7904
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7401 3378
Email: christine@artistpartners.com
Web: www.artistpartners.com
2E The Chandlery, 50 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7QY
Brochure Design - Retro Section: Michael Morris and Penny Jones www.jonesmorrisdesign.co.uk
Current Artists Section: BrunoTilley Film & Design www.brunotilley.com
Cover Illustration: Sam Hadley
 artistpartners 1951 ARTIST PARTNERS 2011
In 1950 G. Donovan Candler left a major London based artists agency to set up
To celebrate our first sixty years we have plundered the in business with L.A. Rix, Betty Luton White, John Barker and the designer Reg Mount.
archives and present a collection of images from the early days. They did not solicit the representation of those artists, designers and photographers whom
• they had previously represented, but were nevertheless inundated with requests from
Looking forward we show a selection of some of the many of them for representation, and so in two rooms in Soho’s Lower John Street,
artists from our current crop. in May 1951, Artist Partners was founded.

Artist Partners Limited

2E The Chandlery, 50 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7QY
Telephone + 44 (0) 20 7401 7904 • Fax + 44 (0) 20 7401 3378
email christine@artistpartners.com • www.artistpartners.com

David Roberts
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Described as ‘a tonic for the

nation’ the Festival of Britain
opened on 2 May 1951, aiming to
provide a feeling of recovery and
By 1951 the most stringent progress and to promote good
wartime food rationing design in the rebuilding of British
Despite the prevailing conditions had eased, though towns and cities following the war.
post-war austerity, 1951 meat was rationed until July Only the Festival Hall now remains
was a time of optimism 1954. Sweet rationing ended at the main South Bank site.
in Britain. Though food shortly before the Coronation
was still rationed the of June 1953, with sugar
Festival of Britain was eventually coming off ration
an occaision for gaiety, that September.
while the easing of
paper restrictions and
the increase in press
advertising allowed
magazines – and their
illustrators – to flourish.
Newcastle defeated Blackpool
– including Stanley Matthews,
Artist Partners have soon to be named the first
represented hundreds European footballer of the
of illustrators, designers year – in the 1951 FA Cup
and photographers during Final. Juan Fangio won the The Coronation of 1953 – broad-
the last six decades – first Grand Prix series in 1951 cast against the recommendations
we show a small of politicians – kickstarted tele-
selection of work from vision as a mass medium in Britain.
the earliest years. Most It also did wonders for magazine
of the images have been publishers, bunting suppliers and
reproduced from well- London’s trams were finally souvenir manufacturers. Breweries
thumbed archive printed taken out of service in 1952. produced commemorative beers –
copies, but all show the Like today’s budget airlines in his Alfa Romeo, while the or, at least, festive labels –
invention, craftsmanship excess baggage was charged more sedate Morris Minor was and local communities
and verve that the for – at two pence per journey, already a best seller. organised street parties.
current crop of Artist payable in the gigantic coinage
Partners still provide. of shillings and pence.

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Veronica Venus Angela Landels

Adrian Bailey

Alistair Michie
Ben Ostrick

Ken Wynn Jean Primrose Phyllis Stroudley

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Hugh Chevins

Reg Mount

Reg Mount

Alistair Michie Feliks Topolski

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Reg Mount, one of the founders of Artist

Partners, designed the streamlined
corporate identity for National Benzole
petroleum in the mid 50s.
George Bishop emphasised the
elegance of the mid-50s Jaguar saloon
in truly aspirational surrondings, while

Peter Hutton

Patrick Tilley

the ever stylish Alistair Michie used the

car as a fashion accessory. Patrick Tilley
– a versatile and prolific designer and
illustrator later to find parallel success
as screenwriter and novellist – also
worked on the design of early
AP brochures.

Alistair Michie

Savignac

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A P operated a parallel print

supply company for several
years – mailshots and press
ads gave the opportunity of
wonderfully quirky illustration.

Four page mailers promoting

individual artists were
Bruce Petty
distributed in the early days;
the back covers carried AP
contact details together
with a list of all artists
represented.

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Patrick Tilley

Tom Eckersley Patrick Tilley

Savignac

Herbert Leupin
Saul Bass Patrick Tilley

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Michael Leonard
Alistair Michie

Jean Primrose

Aubrey Rix

Alistair Michie Beryl Hartland Alistair Michie

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Arthur Horowitz

Barry Driscoll

Early AP brochures displayed work in categories;

this is the section opener for scraper board, still life,
and industrial specialists.
Robert Hodgson

Norman Weaver Patrick Williams

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Zoltan Glass photographed wonderfully

evocotive scenes of domestic bliss

Harry Hants

Rix

AJ Wilson

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Artists, staff – and sometimes
even visitors to AP’s offices –
gleefully posed when reference
photography was needed for an
illustration project.

Gino D’Achille

The poster for Oh! What a

Lovely War was drawn in the
mid 60s by Brian Sanders –
an AP veteran still represented
and working today. The film
was co-produced by photo-
grapher Brian Duffy and
illustrator / author Len Deighton
– both AP stalwarts, while
Patrick Tilley also worked on
Reg Mount the screenplay.
Duffy

John Holmes Len Deighton

Besides the seriuos business of producing great work we have had a lot of fun at AP over the years ...

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In the early years parties were held each Friday
Over the past 60 years Artist Partners have evening at the Artist Partners offices, when artists
represented hundreds of illustrators, designers and clients met for drinks and supper ...
and photographers – a selection from the early
years are listed here.

1951 Mid to Late Fifties 1969

Kurt Ard Howard McLean John Barker Howard McLean Tom Adams Angela Landels
Bill Banks Noel McVeigh Saul Bass Michie Julian Allen John Lawrence
John Barker Michie Baylis & Adam Reginald Mount Ken Astrop Connell Lee
R L Bates Mortelmans Peggy Beetles Ostrick John Astrop Michael Leonard
Peggy Beetles Reginald Mount George Bishop Bruce Petty Michel Atkinson Alan Manham
Miles Chance Charles Oates Donald Brun Porter G Adrian Bailey Betty Maxey
Stanley Coleman Ben Ostrick Carboni Jean Primrose Arthur Barbosa John McConnell
Alexis Delmar Porter G Miles Chance Jacques Richez Bill Botten Wilson McLean
John Donaldson Peter Rees - Roberts Hugh Chevins Rix Graham Brownridge Ron Mercer
Laurence Dunn Rix Stanley Coleman Bruce Roberts Peter Carapetian John Meyer
Tom Eckersley Bruce Roberts Jean Colin Evelyn Ruse Roger Coleman Alistair Michie
Harry Hants Kurt Ard Susan Einzig Dorothy Rogers Delmar Savignac Roy Coombs Mount / Evans
Aubrey Rix Eileen Evans Rose John Donaldson Sawyer George Coral Graham Percy
L S Ferm Bill Sawyer Barry Driscoll Spreyer Norman Crockford Charles Raymond
Andre Francois Phyllis Stroudley Tom Eckersley David Stone - Martin Gino D ’ Achille Tony Richards
Ruth Freeman Ray Tooby David Edgell Phyllis Stroudley Bill Dawson -Thompson Aubrey Rix
Zoltan Glass Keith Vaughan Susan Einzig Shirley Thompson Len Deighton Ian Robertson
Harry Hants Veronica Venus Eileen Evans Patrick Tilley Pino Dell ’ Orco Rose
W Hewison Norman Weaver Adrian Flowers Raymond Tooby Tod Draz Brian Sanders
Robert Hodgson A R Whitear Andre Francois Feliks Topolski Barry Driscoll Bill Sawyer
A Horowicz Pat Williams Ruth Freeman Hans Unger Duffy Caroline Smith
Ruth Hurle A J Wilson Zoltan Glass Tony Walton Malcolm English Murray Smith
Pat Kendrick H R A Winslade Olive Hammond Norman Weaver Barry Evans Rod Springett
Heinz Kurth Gerald Wood Harry Hants A J Wilson Ruth Freeman Eric Stemp
Kenneth Wynn Ward Hart H R A Winslade Kay Gallwey Leigh Taylor
Beryl Hartland Denis Wreford Barry Glynn Karel Thole
George Him Kenneth Wynn David Grove Shirley Thompson
Jim Holdaway Paul Harbutt Diane Tippell
R M Hutchings Beryl Hartland Feliks Topolski
Jak Eric Hill Hans Unger
Kempster & Evans Peter Hutton Cecil Vieweg
Kenneth Kirkland Alex Jawdokimov Norman Weaver
Heinz Kurth Michael Johnson Jenny Williams
John Leigh - Pemberton Gary Berth Jones Walter Wright
Herbert Leupin Julian Key Barry Zaid
Edith Maclean Kundock

Eric Stemp Aubrey Rix Ben Ostrick

Images taken from the book Lifestyle illustration of the 60’s Edited by Rian Hughes. Published by Fiell Books.

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60 years on and we are still moving forward with expertise in publishing and advertising.
Representing the cream of artists experienced in 3D, animation/ film to finished artwork for print and online use.

CURRENT ARTISTS
Dawn Austin.......................40
Peter Barrett.......................27
Lauren Bishop.....................44
Gary Blythe.........................26
Debbie Boon.......................39
Suzanne Carpenter..............44
Tim Clarey..........................36
Stewart Easton...................43
Mark Edwards.....................29
Mark Entwisle.....................38
David Frankland..................37
Melvyn Grant......................34
Sam Hadley........................37
Geoff Hunt.........................27
Helen Hurry........................38
Mike Johnson......................25
Gwyneth Jones....................40
Richard Jones.....................35
Bob Lea.............................36
Chris Moore........................34
David Mostyn......................42
Annika Olesen.....................29
Miguel Ordonez...................43
Martyn Pick........................41
Sharon Pinsker....................41
Stephen Player...................32
Kimberley Pope..................45
Brian Sanders - still represented
Angelo Rinaldi.....................30
David Roberts.....................42
Larry Rostant......................33
Brian Sanders.....................25
Lizzie Sanders....................26
Max Schindler.....................30
Steve Stone........................31
Sally Taylor.........................28
Sophie Tilley.......................45
Kevin Tweddell....................36
Julie Westbury....................39
Adam Willis.........................32
Moose & Yeti......................28
Paul Young.........................35

We also represent other talented artists that are not featured here, but who’s work can be found on our website
www.artistpatners.com

Contact: Christine Isteed Tel: +44 (0) 20 7401 7904 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7401 3378
Email: christine@artistpartners.com
2E The Chandlery, 50 Westminster Bridge Road,London SE1 7QY
Mike Johnson - still represented

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 Gary Blythe Geoff Hunt RSMAMA

Lizzie Sanders Peter Barrett

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 Moose & Yeti Annika Olesen

Sally Taylor Mark Edwards

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 Angelo Rinaldi Max Schindler
Steve Stone

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 Adam Willis Stephen Player Larry Rostant

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 Richard Jones

Chris Moore Melvyn Grant Paul Young

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 Bob Lea

Tim Clarey Kevin Tweddell David Frankland Sam Hadley

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 Mark Entwisle Julie Westbury

Helen Hurry Debbie Boon

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 Dawn Austin Sharon Pinsker - Illustration & Animation Direction

Gwyneth Jones Martyn Pick - Illustration & Animation Direction

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 David Mostyn Miguel Ordonez

David Roberts Stewart Easton

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 Lauren Bishop Sophie Tilley

Suzanne Carpenter Kimberley Pope

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