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Pen and ink with wash on paper.
13 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (34.3 x 24 cm.)
Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter.
Litterature: Raymond Sheppard, Master Illustrator, Liss Fine Art, November 2010, Cat.17
Although best known as an illustrator, especially of magazines such as Lilliput, Picture Post and The Studio as well as of children’s books, Sheppard was one of the most gifted painters of wildlife of his generation. He was also an extremely diverse artist, producing semi-abstract and surrealist images alongside those of a purely realistic nature.
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Born London 3 March 1913, Raymond Sheppard was an artist in water-colour, black and white, oil, and pastel.
Studied art at Bolt Court under S.G. Boxsius.
He exhibited:
R.A; R.I; R.S.A and his work was reproduced regularly in publications
including Lilliput ; The Studio, Picture Post, John Bull, Everybody’s ;
in children’s books, nature books and calendars.
Married
Iris Gale on December 3rd 1942; had one daughter Christine born 17
March 1944, and one son Michael born 25th July 1946. All feature frequently as the models in his work. Lived in Kenton and then Harrow Weald, Middx.
He served in the RAF photographic section during the
WW2. Despite long periods of ill health and the interruption of the War
years he was, nevertheless, prolific in demonstrating his wide range of
artistic ability as a master draughtsman, illustrator, and landscape
and wildlife artist..
Raymond
Sheppard produced many studies of birds and animals from life, mainly
at Regents Park Zoo and was made a Fellow of the Zoological Society in
1949.
Publications: How to Draw Birds (first
published by Studio in 1940), Drawing at the Zoo (1949 Studio), More
Birds to Draw (Studio 1956).
He also painted landscapes, family portraits, in watercolour, oil, and pastels . He was a founder member of the Wapping Arts Group, a group of artists who sketched and painted by and around the river Thames in London, which was formed just before WW2 but did not start in earnest until 1946.
Raymond Sheppard died in London of cancer in 1958 with which he had battled since 1949.
Rayond Sheppards work has recently undergone a major reassessment being the subject of a number of museum and commercial shows and featured in the Langford Press coffee table book "Raymond Sheppard:Capturing the Moment"(2009).
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Inscribed with title in pencil
Pen and ink,
3 1/2 x 3 3/8 in. (9 x 8.5 cm)
Litterature: Raymond Sheppard, Master Illustrator, Liss Fine Art, November 2010, Cat.70
During the Second World War Sheppard worked in the Royal Airforce photographic section.
Provenance: The Artist's Estate
Similar images were reproduced in Lilliput, (vol 41:4) to illustrate the wartime story Operation Jericho by Sandy Sanderson.
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Ink and wash on paper
10 x 13 7/8 in. (25.5 x 35.5 cm.)
Litterature: Raymond Sheppard, Master Illustrator, Liss Fine Art, November 2010, Cat.57
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Pen and ink on gesso prepared board
13 3/4 X 5 3/4 in. (35 x 14.5 cm)
Literature: Raymond Sheppard, Master Illustrator, Liss Fine Art, November 2010, Cat.85
This drawing appeared in the Young Elizabethan, (vol 9:1) as in illustration to Leave it to Jones by John Kippax Literature: Young Elizabethan, January 1956, vol 9:1, p. 21, (reproduced)
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Pen and ink over gouache on paper
5 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (14 x 11.5 cm)
Litterature: Raymond Sheppard, Master Illustrator, Liss Fine Art, November 2010, Cat.84
Literature:Lilliput, January/February 1952, vol30:1, issue 176, p. 73 (reproduced) This illustration appeared in Lilliput vol 30, to illustrate The great flight by BB (Dudley J. Watkins-Pitchford, the British children's and nature writer). The published version substituted turquoise for the orange of the original version.
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Black chalk with white highlights on reddish paper.
5 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (13.5 x 13.5cm)
Litterature: Raymond Sheppard, Master Illustrator, Liss Fine Art, November 2010, Cat.34
Black chalk with white chalk highlights, on grey paper.
6 3/8 x 5 in. (16.2 x 12.5 cm.)
Christine Sheppard, the artist's daughter.
Litterature: Raymond Sheppard, Master Illustrator, Liss Fine Art, November 2010, Cat.23