Leonard Richmond (1889-1965) was a
Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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born British
watercolour
Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...
landscape artist who spent a large part of his career in Canada and was noted for his railway posters.
Biography
During World War I Richmond served as an official war artist for Canada. In the 1920s and 1930s he produced posters promoting the
Canadian Pacific Railway plus the
Southern and
Great Western Railways in Britain. Richmond was awarded several prizes including the Tuthill Prize (1928) at the Chicago International Watercolour Exhibition and a silver medal (1947) at the
Paris Salon. Examples of his pictures are held by several public collections in Britain including:
The British Museum
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All Souls College, Oxford; the
National Railway Museum
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The National Trust (Cliveden);
Newport Museum and Art Gallery; and
Penlee House Gallery and Museum.
Selected publications
* Richmond, L. (1969). The technique of oil painting. London: Pitman.
* Richmond, L. (1966). From the sketch to the finished picture: Oil painting. London: Pitman.
* Richmond, L., Bell, V., Nash, P., Kauffer, E. M. K., & Friday Club (London, England). (1933). The technique of the poster. London: Sir Isaac Pittman & Sons Ltd.
* Richmond, L. (1966). The art of landscape painting. Pitman.
Gallery
Images of Richmonds work:
File:Leonard Richmond-Canadian Light Railway Engines (CWM 19710261-0584).jpeg, ''Canadian Light Railway Engines''
File:Leonard Richmond-Canadian Railway Construction in France (CWM 19710261-0582).jpeg, ''Canadian Railway Construction in France''
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1889 births
1965 deaths
20th-century English painters
20th-century English male artists
Artists from Somerset
British poster artists
British war artists
English male painters