ROLAND DAVIES OIL ON CANVAS - GARAGE SALE FIND
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