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Dudley Hardy 
Today poster, Yellow Girl, from the "Les maîtres de l'affiches" seriesBorn 15 January 1867
Sheffield, YorkshireDied 11 August 1922
London, EnglandField painting, drawing, illustration Training Düsseldorf Academy, Antwerp Academy Influenced by Jules Chéret 
A Gaiety Girl from the “Les Maitre de L'Affiches" series (c 1895)
Dudley Hardy, RI, ROI, RBA, RMS, PS, (b. Sheffield, Yorkshire, 15 January 1867 – d. London, 11 August 1922), was an English painter and illustrator.
Hardy was the eldest son of the marine painter Thomas Bush Hardy,[1] under whose influence and tutelage he first learned to draw and paint. In 1882 he attended the Düsseldorf Academy where he remained for three years. After a further two year's study in Paris and at Antwerp Academy he returned to England to live and work in London.[2][3]
In 1885 Hardy began exhibiting at the Royal Academy, an association that lasted to his death. His painting, Sans Asile (1889), a view of rough sleepers in Trafalgar Square, was exhibited at the Paris Salon,[4] and the Royal Society of British Artists Gallery in 1893; it was this painting that established his reputation. Sans Asile and his 1889 painting Dock Strike[5] (London Dock Strike), were part of a wider artistic and statistical examination highlighting London poverty.[6]
The preferred subjects for his work became the Middle East and Brittany; painting scenes of desert life and Breton peasantry. Although not visiting the Sudan he became a ‘War Artist’ for the 1890s Sudanese War, providing illustrations for London periodicals. His interest in illustration led to the production of French graphic influenced poster imagery, most notably the Yellow Girl advertisement for Today magazine, and Gaiety Girls,[7] a series of posters depicting actresses of the Gaiety Theatre. Further illustrations were for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and the Savoy Theatre.[8] Much of Hardy’s illustrative work is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum.[2][3][9]
In the early 1900s he produced a range of comical postcards,[10] and in 1909 a series of caricatures for the souvenir programme of the Doncaster Aviation Meeting, England's first airshow.[11]
Hardy joined his friend George Haité as a founder member of the London Sketch Club; and became the club's president.[10] He later joined the Eccentric Club.
Dudley Hardy died of heart failure in 1922, and was buried at Woking in Surrey.[12]
Publications
- Greenwall, Ryno (1994); Artists and Illustrators of the Anglo-Boer War – p. 142; Fernwood Press ISBN 0958315426; retrieved April 2011
- Johnson, Alfred Edwin (1909); Dudley Hardy: R.I., R.M.S (Brush, pen & pencil series) – 56 work examples; A. and C. Black; retrieved April 2011
- Hiatt, Charles (1895); Picture Posters: A Short History of the Illustrated Placard - p. 209, 213 248; Kessinger Publishing (Nov 2009) ISBN 1120674778; ("It is, I think, Mr. Dudley Hardy who, of the three artists named, owes most to France. He has made a variation, a very personal and alluring variation, be it said, of a theme essentially Gallic in its unrestrained gaiety..."); retrieved April 2011
- Punch Magazine. Volume 131 Jul To Dec 1906; Punch Office (1906) – p. 42; ("...the Government are, we hear, about to try the effect of more attractive posters by Mr. John Hassall, Mr. Dudley Hardy, and Mr. Tom Browne..."); retrieved April 2011
- Salaman, Malcolm Charles (1892); Woman - Through a Man's Eyeglass – p. 240; BiblioBazaar (2009) ISBN 1103695886; ("...you will find a soothing alternative in looking at Mr. Dudley Hardy's dainty illustrations..."); retrieved April 2011
- The Burlington Magazine - Volume 16 (1909) – p. 17; ISBN 1151938602; ("...the work of Mr. Dudley Hardy is popular; this little volume of unstinted praise and plenty of reproductions should be popular too..."); retrieved April 2011
- Jubert, Roxane (2006); Typography and Graphic Design: From Antiquity to the Present – p. 88, 132, 232; Flammarion; ("...one of them, Dudley Hardy, was a pioneer of the color poster. While a student in Paris, he had been much impressed by Cheret. Some of Hardy's posters present the uniform ground typical of the era..."); retrieved April 2011
- Hammerton, Philip Gilbert (1893); The Portfolio - An Artistic Periodical, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893 - p. 8; Seeley And Co. Ltd.; ("...the best things in the first room are Mr. Frank Brangwyn's Puerta des Passages and Mr. Dudley Hardy's Snake Charmers. ... As for the Dudley Hardy, it is bizarre in conception and a little painty ; but it deserved a much better place..."); retrieved April 2011
- Horn, Maurice (1999); The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons: 2 – p. 158; Chelsea House ISBN 0791051854; ("...the foundation of the London Sketch Club on April 1, 1898, with Phil May, Tom Browne, John Hassall and Dudley Hardy..."); retrieved April 2011
- The Magazine of Art – Volume 2 - p. 250; La Belle Savvage (1904); ("...in the annual " Landscape Exhibition," held at the Dudley Gallery, there were many excellent achievements by the six ... M. Thaulow, M. le Sidancr, M. Menard, Mr. F. Mayor, and Mr. Dudley Hardy..."); retrieved April 2011
- Breward, Christopher (2004); Fashioning London: Clothing and the Modern Metropolis – p. 85; Berg Publishers ISBN 1859737927; ("...in selecting Mr Dudley Hardy to design the handsome memento which was distributed in the theatre, the management showed a nice sense of appropriateness. Along with French methods of draughtsmanship, the tone of the French..."); retrieved April 2011
- Howard, Jeremy (1996); Art Nouveau: International and National Styles in Europe – p. 56; Manchester University Press ISBN 0719041600; ("... the evocation of the underlying forces of nature, as seen in the designs of Christopher Dresser, the posters of John Hassall and Dudley Hardy..."); retrieved April 2011
- Wooton, David (1999); The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1800-2002 – p. 66; Chris Beetles ISBN 9781871136791; ("...Dudley Hardy produced a poster for Jimmy Davis's musical comedy, A Gaiety Girl which was produced at the Prince of Wales Theatre. Depicting a leaping figure of a chorus girl in a red dress and a black bonnet..."); retrieved April 2011
- Sheldon, Cyril (1937); A History of Poster Advertising. Together with a record of legislation and attempted legislation affecting outdoor advertising, etc – p. 77, 80; Chapman & Hall; ("...the beginning had already been made by that time, with Dudley Hardy's poster announcing the new weekly To-day, ... Dudley Hardy, following up his To-day poster with posters for the " Gaiety Girl," was the first British poster artist..."); retrieved 18 April 2011
- Current literature, Volume 17, p. 219; Current Literature Pub. Co, 1895; ("...Dudley Hardy, the illustrator, is in appearance ... Several of his paintings have been hung in the Paris salon, notably Sans Asile, representing Trafalgar Square..."); retrieved April 2011
- Borzello, Frances (1987); Civilizing Caliban: Misuse of Art, 1875-1980 - p. 22; Camden Press ISBN 0710206755; ("...Dudley Hardy pictured the London dock strike in 1889 and the homeless in Trafalgar Square (Sans Asile, 1889). These reports and visualisations were complemented in the 1880s by efforts to collect a statistically accurate picture of the lower classes..."); retrieved April 2011
References
- ^ Thomas Bush Hardy Vallejo Gallery; retrieved 17 April 2011
- ^ a b Dudley Hardy (1867-1922) Invaluable.com; retrieved 17 April 2011
- ^ a b Dudley Hardy Lynda Cotton Gallery; retrieved 17 April 2011
- ^ Current opinion, Volume 17, p. 219; Current Literature Pub. Co, 1895; retrieved 17 April 2011
- ^ Dock Strike Getty images (2008); retrieved 17 April 2011
- ^ Borzello, Frances (1987); Civilizing Caliban: Misuse of Art, 1875-1980 - p. 22; Camden Press ISBN 0710206755; retrieved 18 April 2011
- ^ Society - Women and the family Victoria and Albert Museum "Victorian Vision" exhibition; V&A Publications; retrieved 18 April 2011
- ^ Mr. Dudley Hardy’s Savoy Posters The Poster; retrieved 17 April 2011
- ^ Poster for D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's 'Yeoman of the Guard' Victoria and Albert Museum collections; retrieved 18 April 2011
- ^ a b Dudley Hardy Postcard Artist About Postcards; retrieved 17 April 2011
- ^ Dudley Hardy: "Doncaster Aviation Meeting Souvenir Programme" Science and Society Picture Library; retrieved 18 April 2011
- ^ Clarke, John M.; London's Necropolis, A Guide to Brookwood Cemetery, Sutton Publishing, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 2004
External links
- London Sketch Club; retrieved 17 April 2001
Categories:- 1867 births
- 1922 deaths
- English painters
- English designers
- English illustrators
- People from Sheffield
- Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alumni
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