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Alan Odle, Illustrator, 1916.

©E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection.

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illustration by Alan Odle

from A Tudor Fireside Conversation

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The Golden Hind

Last Sunday we featured the lithographs of English illustrator Alan Odle.

This Sunday we present the pen drawings of Alan Odle, also known as Allan Odle, found in several issues of The Golden Hind, the art and literature magazine founded and edited by English writer Clifford Bax and English artist and occultist Austin Osman Spare, and published in eight issues from 1922 to 1924 by Chapman and Hall in London.

We also present Odle’s frontispiece for The Last Voyage by James Hanley, published in 1931 by Chiswick Press.

In 1917, Alan Odle was drafted into the army, discharged after one day with a diagnosis of advanced tuberculosis and six months to live, and convinced English author Dorothy Richardson to marry him (she had rejected him twice before). Odle lived far past six months until Valentine’s day 1948.

Next Sunday we will feature the pen drawings of Alan Odle’s friend, the English book illustrator John Austen.

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Alan Elsden Odle (1888-1948) - Untitled, date unknown

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Alan Odle (1888–1948)

http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2017/09/alan-odle-18881948.html

"Alan Elsden Odle was an English illustrator, remembered today as the husband of the English novelist Dorothy Richardson, whom he married in 1917.  His grotesque and subversive style was a precursor of surrealism. He illustrated an English edition of Voltaire's Candide (G. Routledge, 1922), Mark Twain's 1601: A Tudor Fireside Conversation, a salute to scatology and Elizabethan manners (London: Printed for Subscribers only, 1936), and The Mimiambs of Herondas.  He also designed the dust jacket for James Hanley's Ebb and Flow (London: John Lane, 1932), other Hanley novels for Lane, and Dorothy Richardson's Backwater (1916).  He contributed to a number of periodicals such as The Gypsy, The Golden Hind (1922–25), the US Vanity Fair, The Studio, and the UK Argosy. Odle was a distinctly bohemian figure and he associated with an artistic circle that included Augustus John, Jacob Epstein, and Wyndham Lewis. When he married Dorothy Richardson he was tubercular and an alcoholic, and was not expected to live long. However, he stopped drinking and lived until 1948. Odle was very thin and "over six feet tall with waist-length hair wound around the outside of his head", which he never cut. He also rarely cut his fingernails. From 1917 until 1939, the couple spent their winters in Cornwall and their summers in London; and then stayed permanently in Cornwall until Odle’s death in 1948. Richardson supported herself and her husband with freelance writing for periodicals for many years, as Alan made little money from his art." - quote source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Odle

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Alan Odle The Malicious Satyr

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The Golden Hind

Last Sunday we featured the cover design and signed print of landscape artist Walter Ernest Spradbery from The Golden Hind: a Quarterly Magazine of Art and Literature.

This Sunday we present the lithographs of Alan Odle, also known as Allan Odle, found in several issues of The Golden Hind, the art and literature magazine founded and edited by English writer Clifford Bax and English artist and occultist Austin Osman Spare, and published in eight issues from 1922 to 1924 by Chapman and Hall in London.

Alan Elsden Odle (1888-1948) studied at the Sidney Cooper School of Art in Canterbury and at the St. John’s Wood Art School. Odle struggled financially, and was mainly supported by his wife, the English novelist Dorothy Richardson.  He was a strikingly bohemian figure, tall and extremely thin with waist-long hair and overgrown fingernails. His imagery has a surreal quality, which later became inspirational to director and Monty Python alum Terry Gilliam.

Next Sunday we will feature pen drawings and a frontispiece of grotesque English illustrator Alan Odle. 

View our other posts from The Golden Hind. 

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The Malicious Satyr by Alan Elsden Odle.