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.
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