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Exhibition reactions
"Visited the Cartoon Art Museum and got to pick this up! So crazy to see my work in print with so many other incredible artists! The Searle show was great"- Samantha Vilfort, contributing...
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Another Searle exhibition!
Robert Forbes has one of the largest collections of original Searle artwork in the U.S. and several pieces in 'Searle In America' were generously loaned from the Forbes Gallery, NYC. Mr Forbes...
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I've launched an official Facebook page for updates & info on the exhibition at the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum HERE!
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Seasons Greetings
Amid Amidi at Cartoon Brew features the quirky Christmas card designs of Disney animator Ward Kimball. Searle visited the Disney studio in 1957 and remained friendly with several of the animators...
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Merry Christmas
Here's a rare & expensive christmas present for Searle completists. Available here
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Flu season!
A Get Well card by Searle should cheer you up! You might even use a St Trinians hankerchief designed by Searle in 1954
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The Railway Man
Ronald's Searle wartime sketches of his POW experience feature in the new film 'The Railway Man'- based on Eric Lomax's account of his time on the Thai-Burma 'Death Railway'. Directed by Jonathan...
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Bohème
When Searle first moved to Paris in the 1970s he found a local restaurant on the left bank sympathetic to struggling artists. Like the cafes that supported some of the Impressionists and later Picasso...
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Animation
London based animator Uli Meyer has been looking to animate a Searle project for several years now. He completed an impressive test based on the St Trinians girls a couple of years ago, which Searle...
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'Searle In America' lecture this saturday
I'll be giving a talk at San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum this Saturday, 22nd February on Searle's career. I'll be focusing on his work in America with a slideshow of rare material and photos that...
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The Wildcats of St.Trinians
Ronald Searle tried to distance himself from the film adaptations of his St. Trinians, but remained appreciative for the extra income it brought. The last two films made by the modern incarnation of...
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Searle's Dogs
Searle was, of course, famous for his cat drawings but he told me he was never particularly fond of cats they were just "what sold". His various depictions of dogs over the years are just as funny and...
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Italy, Max Beerbohm & Exhibitions
Ronald Searle first visited Italy in 1949 with his wife Kaye. They explored Portofino and Rapallo where they looked up humourist and caricaturist Max Beerbohm.'In October, the Searles visited Italy and...
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London based animator Uli Meyer is hard at work on a proof of concept test for his animated Molesworth film. Uli has scrutinized the Searle line and relates the benefit of his study:"In order to...
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Young Elizabethan
When Searle's first wife, Kaye Webb, took over as editor of (Collins) Young Elizabethan magazine she enlisted her husband to provide artwork. Searle designed covers and Nigel Molesworth debuted in the...
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The Saturday Book
'The Saturday Book was an annual miscellany, published from 1941 to 1975, reaching 34 volumes. It was edited initially by Leonard Russell and from 1952 by John Hadfield. A final compilation, The Best...
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The Inconstant Moon
In 1949 Searle illustrated Noel Langley's 'The Inconstant Moon', again in a classical style. A retelling of the story of Dante and Beatrice.Scans from the always excellent illustration resource FULL...
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The Strand
The Strand magazine, founded in 1891, was a monthly, pocket sized edition by the late forties in a similar format to Lilliput magazine. It featured many of the same illustrators and cartoonists but...
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London Opinion
'London Opinion magazine gave Searle some of his earliest commissions after returning from the war. In this May 1946 issue we see how comparitively crude Searle's cartoon style was (these cartoons may...
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