. Frank Brangwyn and his work. 1911 . ke him away from the main stressof his usual professional life. Branguyn speaks of hisillustrations as bread-and-butter things, but this appliesmore often to his books than to his drawings for magazines,and the reason is practical. The book market has been soglutted during the last twenty years that the fortunesof its stock have been like those of little children lostin a turbulent crowd. To foresee what would happen tothem, to divine which would be saved and which killed,has been impossible; and therefore it has needed courageto pay large fees for illustr
. Frank Brangwyn and his work. 1911 . ke him away from the main stressof his usual professional life. Branguyn speaks of hisillustrations as bread-and-butter things, but this appliesmore often to his books than to his drawings for magazines,and the reason is practical. The book market has been soglutted during the last twenty years that the fortunesof its stock have been like those of little children lostin a turbulent crowd. To foresee what would happen tothem, to divine which would be saved and which killed,has been impossible; and therefore it has needed courageto pay large fees for illustrations. Even two guineas foreach of a dozen drawings, when added to the cost ofblocks, and paper, and printing, may be too much. Manya good venture has, indeed, been turned by that price intoa failure. It is hard upon the rank and file of illustrators,unless they are popular with those magazines and weekliesthat actually do what they can afford to do—paying welland promptly. American magazines lead the way in this180 o < a-- X 1. Illustrations for Magazines and Books respect, and Brangwyn has worked—always with muchpleasure—for Scribners, Maclnres, the Century, ColliersWeekly, and the Cambridge Press, The Graphic has supported him from the days of hisfirst adventures as a sea-painter, and always in a waythat he has liked to remember. The plates were verypopular. Several were in colours, like the Sail Ho I in the Christmas number of 1902 ; and in the Christmasnumbers of 1895 and 1896, Brangwyn illustrated tw^o storiesby Mr. Rudyard Kipling—The Devil and the Deep Sea,and Bread upon the Waters. The two colour-prints aretypical and good. The better one belongs to Bread uponthe Waters. It recalls to memory the fact that someforeign critics have noted a kinship between RudyardKipling and Frank Brangwyn. M. Gabriel Mourey says,for instance: Brangwyn ne possede-t-il pas la memefagon de grandir, de lyriciser, si Ton pent dire, la rdalit^,de glorifier les aspects moment
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