ROLAND DAVIES OIL ON CANVAS - GARAGE SALE FIND

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I stopped by a local garage sale near the house and it was on it's last day (Tuesday). I got a neat find. It an original oil on canvas painting by Roland Davies (1904-1993). Davies was an English Illustrator/Artist whose career spanned at least 6 decades. Davies attended Ipswich Art School 1919-1921. He started his career as a Lithographer creating Cinema and Railway Posters. c1926 he was hired by Temple Press and created some great covers for Autocar and Motor Cycle Magazines. In 1928 he was hired by Modern Boy Magazine to create Illustrations and Covers. In 1931 he was hired by Mardon, Son & Hall to produce and illustrate a set of 50 Tobacco Cards for Ogden's titled "Motor Races 1931". In 1932 he started his own comic strip for the Sunday Express about a cart horse called "Come on Steve". Davies produced 6 animated film shorts based on his comic strip that were released in 1936 and 1937. These crude films have garnered him a bit of a cult status in the genre. The Steve strip ran in the Sunday Express until 1939 and then was picked up by The Sunday Dispatch for 10 more years. From 1938 onwards, he worked on several comic strips (Whoopee Hank" "Contrary Mary" "Sexton Blake" "Dixon of Dock Green" "Norman and Henry Bones" "Red Ray the Space Ranger" "Jill Crusoe" "Pete Madden") wrote and illustrated Children's books and comic annuals such as a British publication of Roy Rogers. Around 1970, he more or less retired from commercial work and devoted his time to painting landscapes, seascapes and street scenes for the art market. I have a Parisian Street Scene that Davies likely did in the early 1970's. This will be available at CT's Treasure Haven's October 25th Auction at the Livonia Elks. SOLD $55

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