Artist
Barnett Freedman.
Barnett Freedman was born in London the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. He attended evening classes at St. Martin’s School of Art for five years before going to study at the Royal College of Art on a scholarship 1922-25. In 1927 he received his first book illustration commissions and from then on,worked mainly for the Curwen and Baynard presses designing advertisements and posters and dust-wrappers. He taught at the Royal College of Art and at the Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford. Freedman is remembered today as a lithographer and illustrator though he was also a painter of merit. Created CBE in 1946 and elected Royal Designer for Industry in 1949. Ref: Ian Rogerson: Barnett Freedman: The Graphic Art. The Fleece Press 2006.
- Artist Initials: B.
- Born: 1901
- Died: 1958
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Chromoworks/Painters-Writers.
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Proof dust wrapper for Whistler by James Laver published by Faber.
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Proof dust wrapper for The Devil Rides Outside by John Howard Griffin published by Collins.
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Proof dust wrapper for Affairs of a Painter by J.F.Joni published by Faber.
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Proof dust wrapper for The wall by John Hersey published by Hamilton.
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Jane Eyre binding illustration.
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London Transport poster
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London Transport poster
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Grand Tour (dust-wrapper)
