The Music Hall artists Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtnedge
George Formby and Bette Davis.
By Chris Mullen
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| An Innovative caricatural style |
| COURIER was
a Quarterly magazine published in London 1937 and 1938, slightly raffish and
notable as the employer of the cartoonist VICKY whose uncharacteristic
social drawings pepper the pages. It also employed Patrick O'Lee about whom
little is known. He specialised in a shiny, almost porcelain style of
caricature, executed in airbrush, with an innovative shiny look. He always
achieved an excellent likeness. In terms of slickness he could outslick many
American social caricaturists such as Sam Berman. I offer two examples here
to show his unusual qualities.
The Music Hall artists Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtnedge
George Formby and Bette Davis.
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By Chris Mullen |