TV Guide
31 July, 1976For comparison of Searle's Carroll O'Connor here's his cover for 'All In The Family'.See my book 'Ronald Searle's America' for the collected TV Guide artwork including many scanned form...
View ArticleThe New Yorker
'Garbage' for 'The New Yorker'Unpublished cover for 'The New Yorker'(collection of Peter de Seve)See more Searle cartoons for 'The New Yorker'here and here and his run of covers for the magazine here
View ArticleFlower of Cities
Searle illustrated a chapter in the beautifully produced anthology on London 'Flower of Cities' (Parrish, 1949). His drawings appear alongside many contemporary artist and writers. Searle's work...
View ArticleSearle's birthday!
Let's celebrate Ronald Searle's birthday (March, 3rd) with a Lemonhart Rum update!Even after 20 years researching Searle's work I still find pieces I'm unfamiliar with such as this wonderful Lemonhart...
View ArticleMerry Christmas!
Merry Xmas from the Lemonharts.The above is obviously Nov 5th but included for its similarity to the image beneath.
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving!
I wish I had discovered this one for my book ‘Ronald Searle’s America’! It’s in the JFK Presidential Library. Looks like a HOLIDAY magazine commission. ‘A man on a donkey gazes at a tall, ornate...
View ArticleSearle's favorite painting
Vauxhall Gardens, 1784, by Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827), Victoria & Albert Museum.From Country Life magazine.Ronald Searle on Vauxhall Gardens, 1784 by Thomas Rowlandson‘Obsessed as I am with the...
View ArticleAnthony Quayle
The Searles were friendly with British actor Anthony Quayle whose birthday is today!Ronald Searle, artist (1920-2011). Pair of Original Copper Printing Plates Depicting Anthony Quayle as Falstaff. A...
View ArticleKhrushchev
Alternative versionNikita Khrushchev in New York, 1960 pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolourHoliday Magazine, New York, 1960.
View ArticleTake One Toad
Some of the original drawings from 'Take One Toad' (1968) have been sold at auction in recent years. They're stunning, large-format, color drawings. The book is a good size too and there are sometimes...
View Article'I Have No Gun But I Can Spit'
'I Have No Gun, But I can Spit'. An Anthology of satirical and abusive verse selected by Kenneth Baker-Published by Eyre Methuen, London, 1980Original artwork. View a comprehensive gallery of 'Book...
View ArticleAnimal Farm
Here's a tantalizing prospect: imagine Orwell's 'Animal Farm' illustrated by Searle... he never did it of course but a second-hand bookseller turned up this item - a 1962 edition, Seaerle's own copy,...
View ArticleSearle the art instructor
A fascinating item at auction recently reveals Searle to be a mentor to a fellow artist while incarcerated in Changi Gaol by the Japanese in WWII. I'd never heard of him teaching in this capacity...
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