David Gentleman

David Gentleman is a watercolourist, wood engraver and lithographer. He designed the murals at Charing Cross on the underground, has many exhibitions of watercolours and lithographs, and has designed many British postage stamps. He first went to Italy as a student and has often returned. He lives in London.
 
David Gentleman's CV
  • Books

DESIGN

Release UK: 1st Mar 2009
Publisher UK: Antinques Collectors' Club
ISBN: 978-185149595
Rights Details: Serial, E-Book
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Another instalment of the highly acclaimed Designseries, this time looking at contemporary designer David Gentleman (b.1930). David's early training engraving designs on small boxwood blocks ensured that his unique style retains the characteristic intensity of the miniaturist even when it is enlarged. He attended the Royal College of Art in Kensington from the autumn of 1950, and was tutored by some of the finest artists of the time, including Edward Bawden and John Nash. Lithography became his medium of choice and he has since worked on projects as diverse as designs for postage stamps and wine labels to the hundred-metre long panels at Charing Cross Station.

ARTWORK

Release UK: 3rd Oct 2002
Publisher UK: Ebury
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The lives of most people in Britain, whether they realise it or not, have been touched by David Gentleman. From his many stamp designs, in which he has gradually transformed the way the Queen appears, to his timeless corporate logos for companies such as British Steel and the famous Eleanor Cross murals at Charing Cross underground station, David Gentleman's art has both shaped and given voice to the changing design trends of five decades. In Art Work he gives a fascinating insight not only into his working methods but also into the whole process of design as an art, and art as a job. This major collection features his most significant commissions, highlighting the extraordinary breadth of his work and including stamps and posters, wood engravings and graphics, screen-prints and his trademark watercolours.

DAVID GENTLEMAN'S PARIS

Release UK: 13th Apr 2000
Publisher UK: Orion
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David Gentleman now goes beyond the shores of his own country and gives readers his portrait of Paris. With watercolours, he conveys the sense of history represented by such splendours as the fine 17th century buildings and courtyards.

DAVID GENTLEMAN'S ITALY

Release UK: 20th Apr 1997
Publisher UK: Hodder & Stoughton
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ILLUSTRATED POEMS OF JOHN BETJEMAN

Release UK: 20th Apr 1995
Publisher UK: John Murray
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DAVID GENTLEMAN'S INDIA

Release UK: 1st Jan 1994
Publisher UK: Hodder & Stoughton
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Exploring the lands, architecture and people of India, this book, based on David Gentleman's travels contains his watercolours accompanied by his text. It is not a romantic or nostalgic vision, but a study of a country in part patient, traditional and unchanging, but in part renewed and transformed by its energy, inventiveness and ingenuity.

DAVID GENTLEMAN'S COASTLINE

Release UK: 1st Jan 1988
Publisher UK: Weidenfeld & Nicholson
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A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP

Release UK: 1st Jan 1987
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WESTMINSTER ABBEY

Release UK: 1st Jan 1987
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DAVID GENTLEMAN'S LONDON

Release UK: 1st Jan 1985
Publisher UK: Weidenfeld & Nicholson
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Following the course of the Thames from the Thames Barrier to Richmond, looking in detail at the City, at Whitehall and at Westminster, evoking the beauty of the many parks and heaths, and getting behind the facade of the West End, this is a collection of watercolours celebrating London.

DAVID GENTLEMAN'S BRITAIN

Release UK: 16th Sep 1982
Publisher UK: Weidenfeld & Nicholson
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SHAKESPEARE'S THEATRE

Release UK: 11th Mar 1982
Publisher UK: Penguin
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DANCING TIGERS & TISBURY TOADS

Release UK: 29th Mar 1979
Publisher UK: Jonathan Cape
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DESIGN IN MINIATURE

Release UK: 1st Jan 1972
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BRITISH POSTAGE STAMPS

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EXHIBITIONS OF WATERCOLOURS 1970-1985

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MURALS AT CHARING CROSS UNDERGROUND STATION

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POSTERS AND LITHOGRAPHS 1969-1986

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