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ANTON ARCHIVE: Antonia and Harold Thompson 1937-1949 Antonia Yeoman 1950-1960s. Large collection of original drawings, artwork, sketches, roughs, proofs, captions. Magazines/periodicals/ÔPunchÕ/printing blocks/ads Moss Bros, Simpson/ A.YÕs personal working archive + items posthumously collected by her family. Fascinating and witty insight of post-war Britain to the permissive 60s. YeomanÕs skill poking affectionate fun at the very folk laughing at her cartoons. There is a transition in style from the early years of Anton collaboration.energetic, dark and scratchy hatching to a spare elegance of later work, with drawing techniques mirroring the fashions they documented. WomenÕs role in society and domestic life is very evident with many comments on marriage, relationships and disastrous domestic situations, increasingly scanty female clothing and observations of male humour. TAGS: Spivs, Forgers, Dukes & Duchesses were very popular, and appeared in Tatler, Lilliput, Men Only, New Yorker, Evening Standard, Private Eye and Punch. Fashion, Fur Coats and particularly HATS received a wry commentary through the early decades, gradually disappearing in the 1960s in favour of a lounging lifestyle of Cruises and Foreign Holidays and Youths appearing as scruffy ÔBeatniks.Õ Dogs; Motoring; Country Sports; Norland Nannies; Motoring; Labour-saving devices. Life-style observation and changing attitudes are catalogued through AntonÕs sharp eye as Black-market criminals and tweedy sporting Gents are gradually replaced by monied middle classes enjoying expensive restaurants and a new post-war affluence. MORE INFORMATION AVAILABLE. PUNCH x45 iss. 1941-1991 + Large bundle 100s loose pages and front covers 1939 Ð1971. CLIPPINGS: Substantial folder 100s newspaper clippings of cartoons, largely Evening Standard. ADS:(50+) printed commercial work. Votrix (Calendar) Moss Bros, Guinness, Pirelli, Simpson, Yardley. PERIODICALS & MAGAZINES INC: ÔThe SketchÕ 25 x full-page printed illus. /ÔPANÕ magazine X 6 1965Ð70 +10 pencil sketches./WPN 1952 Vol.48./The Lady March 1994/ Modern Living. Winter 1953/AdvertiserÕs Weekly 1951-52/London Opinion and The Humorist 1943. Large bundle of loose pages: Tatler and Bystander/The New Yorker/Evening Standard/The Sun /Chelsea News/The Sunday Times/Joyce Grenfell /The Tablet /The Listener. ARTWORK: 5x paintings in oil, Surrealist style, one ÔMeeting My Husband.Õ Bundle of sketchy female life drawings/ 2 x portraits of ÔJohnÕ/Unfinished studies, drafts for paintings/Loose collection of character and dance studies c.1940s. ANTONIA YEOMAN (1907Ð1970) b. Beryl Thompson in Australia, returning to England in 1911. Yeoman suffered from TB in childhood, losing two of her fingers. Nevertheless, she trained at the RA under Stephen Spurrier, illustrated 17 books and produced two collections of her own work: Anton's Amusement Arcade (1947) and High Life and Low Life (1952) ANTON: In her 20s Yeoman became a Roman Catholic, taking the name ÔAntonia.Õ In 1937 she formed a partnership with her brother Harold, the cartoonist ÔH. Botterill,Õ producing cartoons over the signature ÔAnton.Õ "I was quite modern when I started", Yeoman later remembered: "I was told a couple of bishops had given up Punch when I started drawing for them." In a male-dominated profession she was also the only woman in Punch's exclusive Toby Club. A telling aspect of her lifeÕs work in a male-dominated profession is her listing in Punch Cover Artists (150th Anniversay) as ÒMarried, her hobbies are cooking and interior decorating.Ó Post WW2, HaroldÕs job as director of an advertising agency left less time for drawing, and from the mid 1950s onwards the Anton cartoons were entirely Antonia. Her drawings were popular, appearing in the high-brow and fashionable publications of the day. As The Times commented, "she could conjure up with great skill the atmosphere of the smart cocktail party, the plushy restaurant and the fashionable milliner's, where one of her large, e.
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