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By Marshall Hall
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DescriptionIn 1925 artist Byron Dawson was commissioned to draw a series of views of Tyneside for Newcastle newspaper The North Mail and Newcastle Chronicle. For the next fourteen years he recorded the city in a way that had never been done before, or since. In this attractive book art historian and author Marshall Hall brings together some of the best of Dawson’s evocative drawings and atmospheric watercolours of Newcastle in those uncertain days between the two world wars, and tells the story of their talented but reclusive artist. Discover a Newcastle that existed before the great changes of the late 20th century, from the vanished Eldon Place and Silver Street, to the cheering football fans at St James’ Park. Dawson drew just about every building, street scene, and place of entertainment in the city. Marshall Hall first came across the illustrations when he was a pupil of the artist. Dawson had carefully collected them as each one had appeared in the paper but sadly, all were lost when the artist's studio was cleared following his death in 1968. A chance gift of some of the illustrations, reproduced in aid of the Chronicle Sunshine Fund in the 1930s, set him on a mission to study what they had looked like when they and others had first appeared in the newspaper. After leafing through thousands of its pages in the Local Studies Collection at Newcastle City Library he has made this fascinating selection, accompanying them with vivid descriptions of what the artist saw.
No of pages Hardback/softback72 pages; softback; 24 in full colour
Price£7.99
ISBN No9781857952025
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