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The Soul of Searle
It's wonderful to see my old boss Pete Docter of Pixar Animation proclaiming Ronald Searle as a key influence on the design of his new film 'Soul'. In an August 2020 interview with 3D World magazine he...
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Searle's Favorite Painting
One of the 20th century's greatest cartoonists chose his favourite painting for Country Life.This week, we delve into the Country Life archive for our My Favourite Painting column — back to 2010 when...
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Thee exhibition at the Wilhelm Busch mseum, Hanover celebrating the centenary of Searle's birth was delayed last year due to Covid but is now open through May. There's a focus on different aspects of...
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The exhibition celebrating the centenary of Ronald Searle's birth runs through the end of May 2021 at the Museum Wilhelm Busch, das Deutsche Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst in Hanover, Germany
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Summer of Searle
I'm celebrating Searle's reportage work for HOLIDAY magazine on Instagram at the Art of Ronald Searle account here.
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Village Life
If you're ever in the haute-Provence region near Draguignan be sure to make the drive to Tourtour the village where Ronald Searle lived- it's worth the trip. The visitor's website had been updated with...
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The Rake's Progress pt.3
The British Museum website has steadily uploaded images of prints and drawings from its collections including the Ronald Searle material. I was able to visit the museum and look through the original...
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Humbug!
In 1959 Searle and his first wife Kaye Webb planned an animated version of Dicken's classic ' A Christmas Carol'. Of course this was long before Richard Williams' award-winning version from 1971 and...
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Remembering Ronald Searle
Remembering Ronald ten years after his death on December 30th, 2011 at 91 years old. View photos of him throughout his life here
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It Must Be True
IT MUST BE TRUE"It was all in the papers" Written by Denys Parsons & illustrated by SearlePublished by Macdonald, London, 1952 (fourth imp. March 1953'Denys Parsons was the undisputed king of the...
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American Gothic
Searle's 'Atlantic City' sketchbook. Searle's 'Catskills' sketchbook. Searle's 'Hawaii' sketchbook.
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l'amour c'est...
Poster signed by Searle for the 1971 film 'L'amour c'est gai, l'amour c'est triste' directed by Jean-Daniel Pollet with dialogue by Remo Forlani. Distributed by Argos Films who presumably engaged the...
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TV guide
Interior spot illustration added to the TV guide section here(Offensive stereotypes portraying offensive TV shows published Dec. 10th, 1977)
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'Self Portrait' 1949 (Tate museum)Photograph by Wolfgang Suschitzky, 1946I'd love to identify the artwork on the easel; looks like a depiction of horses.
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Jazz Man
Sketches of 'The King of New Orleans Jazz' Al Hirt found during research on my book 'Ronald Searle's America'.Sketchbook pages courtesy of Chris Beetles Gallery, London.Searle was on assignment in New...
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Recent finds
Ronald Searle Slightly Foxed But Still Desirable: the wicked world of book collecting "Full sheep of indeterminate age"'In the gardens of the Palais Royals, Paris' (1979)'Farm, Ashley Falls' (April,...
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Molesworth redux
Interview here with my old friend & fellow Searle enthusiast lei Meyer who has done the Searle-esque illustrations for a new Molesworth book!
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The Belles of St. Trinian's
Title sequence for 'The Belles of St. Trinians' (1954) directed by Frank Launder.Poster Rough
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Eamonn McCabe
Photographer and picture editor Eamonn McCabe passed away last week. He was friends with Searle and photographed him around the time of his 90th birthday which were also published not long after with...
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