"Gun welding gangsters and resolute heroic detectives in mortal combat" I get a kick at your descriptive word play. Complements the images perfectly. Watson indeed is a unsung artist of great merit.

Yet another genius illustrator with a diversity of attractive styles. His monochrome early work is really astonishing. Thank you for presenting him to us.

I love to see beautiful art like that. Thanks for sharing Mr. Beard.

Excellent colours and artwork....cheers Pete...thanks as always for sharing....E...

What a lovely way to start my day! Breakfast with illustrations! Wonderful way to start the week. Thank you!📚🐈‍⬛🫖🦉🏕

Emmett Watson was a cover art and narrative art master. Well done, Pete!

Well, here is a new one for me. I’ve probably seen many of his wildlife hunting and fishing works at various hunting and fishing lodges I visited in my youth, but his name is new to me. I enjoyed this.

Detailed work, realistic in the animals especially horses ... the faces of the people & their eyes highly detailed. Interior page illustration that was good not having to do just covers. Thanks *Pete*

A wonderful video. Watson deserved a good retrospective and you have provided one. Thank you!

Many people took these types of publications, and the illustrations they featured, for granted. Despite being largely forgotten, Emmett Watson was undoubtedly among the most skilled artists providing images for these magazines.

VERY bold colors! His B&W line drawings are of course my favorites.

I am so glad that this channel continues to output content. The great English voiceover, the well versed knowledge put forth, the wonderful images put onscreen. Long live Pete Beard and his channel.

I think I'm in love with duotones, thanks for the unnecessary rabbit hole I'm about to fall into! Great video, as always.

Thanks so much as always for the dedication to the artists ! Great to see and hear. A good way to start the day !

Thank you Pete , always wonderful work you find.

Love this one as ALWAYS! Thank for having the stamina and resolve to do all the research and investigative work for us to enjoy! I look forward to everyone!

Another prolific talent that I had not heard of. Thanks for your continuing hard work creating these enjoyable, insightful, entertaining and educational videos Pete.

This made me want to collect and read pulp magazines. Gonna have to stop by the antique shop soon. 🙂

Another wonderful illustrator whose name I did not know. Thank you, Pete!

Excellent video. All those magazines...I think I'd definitely have picked up a copy of the 'Progressive Grocer' out of sheer curiosity...

Thanks-like cover art in those bright colours. 👍

Thank you for making this beautiful overview of this artist’s work. Your well researched videos are very much appreciated.❤

This excellent video - as many others aired by Pete - make me reflect - as rethinking meaning - about the art as a healing medicine, not only as a job.....living at a war time, involve a lot of hard situations that make oneself in psicological disturbances.... Returning home, if you had good luck, and being involved in resolve graphic tasks, may be - in the same value - so dificult and so healing.... How many great artist hadn't returned from war events, we don't know......in Emmet Watson we make claps for them unfinished and unsung carrers!

Great work, Pete. I have seen this man’s prince, and now I know it is, thank you for that

Thanks, Pete. Another great source of information on a little-known artist, certainly little known to me; I'm sure I've seen Watson's work before, but I knew nothing about him, in contrast to the Leyendeckers and Rockwell.

Thanks again, Pete. You might consider looking at the work of Holling C. Holling, an American illustrator of children's books.

Thanks Pete.Yet another fabulous episode!! Your channel makes me so relaxed....

(66) What a fascinating artist. Quite adept at conveying a certain type of mood in each exquisite work. A shame he was lost so suddenly. Thank you SO much, Mr. Beard. I really do believe your uploads will (hopefully) last forever so others will benefit.

It always breaks my heart when I read of the practices of the treatment of the original art for the pulps and advertising, but for his wife to burn canvases because she thought they were an "embarrassment?" Thank goodness attitudes started to change in the late '60's and '70's!! Thanks for this profile! I'm sure I've seen his artwork on pulp magazines but had little background on him and his other work!

Magnificent. I knew nothing about this great artist.

This is yet another compelling video, Mr. Beard! I really appreciate all the work you do, selecting artists, researching, collecting, and editing images, and your good humored and informative narrative commentary, of course.

I'm a very flawed person, and I know it. I'd rather read Hammett or Chandler than Shakespeare. Most of what is still available in print from the pulps isn't that admirable or even marginally readable (but I give them a go), but the covers and internal illustrations are mesmerising. I thank you most sincerely for not eschewing the pulp illustrators. I appreciate your coverage even of the abstract modernists - and it especially interesting how these seemed to have thrived as posters in the underground and train stations (one wonders if there isn't more than one PhD thesis on this), but my heart is with the phantasmagorical and menacing pulp covers, and also with the damsels in disarray and distress, but as I began, I am a very flawed person.

These all have a...sensibility. A sense of pace, and time. So many clues for short stories. I recently read Nightmare Alley. It's incredible prose..the two films come nowhere near it. It's magical the way N.C. Wyeth's work was. See how I snuck back to llustration?

Thanks Pete, as always interesting, informative and entertaining 😊

Thank you for your efforts, Pete! Very interesting artist.

hot dang, this is great

💚💙🩵 Thank you.

what incredible documentary work you do

It's always refreshing to watch one of your videos. I've been battling self-doubt and was truly about to call it quits with drawing in general just a few months ago. Recently, though, I went back and looked at a lot of my old art and realized that I actually had a passion for art back then. That was what led me to your videos in the first place, and I'm so glad that you're still making these amazingly beautiful and well-informed videos. This is what I needed to really get back on the game. I have a lot more videos of yours to watch, and I'm ready to level up! Thank you for never changing!

Fascinating look at a talented artist. Fine draftsmanship and deft use of oil paints, and yet one would think quick dry gouache would have been preferable over slow drying oil paint for an illustrator working on deadlines. So interesting.

Another great video, Pete. I know you've done a whole video on pulp magazine illustrations and, with all due respect, I blame you for my deep dive into the genre (happily, I'll admit)...;-)....) I'm also reading some of the stories as well as looking at the covers and interior art. A mixed bag on both fronts but some amazing work. What struck me with Watson was his ability to cross genres; western, soldier, detective, maudlin family scenes, even some "spicy" looking ladies in distress (no sci-fi, I noticed. I wonder if he attempted any?). Ah, the golden days of illustration! I guess getting older can make one wistful for, perhaps not better times, but maybe more creative times or perhaps times when editors and art directors were more open to new visually exciting ways of enticing readers to their wares. My thanks to you for sending me down that forbidden rabbit hole and coming up with some delightful and inspiring images. May your paintings never be burned or destroyed! Cheers, Pete.

Another great episode. Collectively they are a kind of online museum/ gallery. I hope someone somewhere is curating these and they do not vanish into the ether. They are a goldmine for interested blow ins like me and serious students alike. I wonder what AI is going to do with them?

WOW! He can draw anything, paint anything, catch movements in mid-air! It is so odd to me that his art and that of his peers is considered disposable! It is as fine as anything done in art history, not monumental because 'democracies and bank-driven mass economies' do not have high-minded anything! At least a church with the Assumption of Mary is much more a subject than duck hunting. But the work is superb, has few technical errors, well-observed, done quickly and with style. I am so happy that you are doing this site. I am more or less a 'closet' lover of 'pop art.' Carl Barks and MAD perhaps the first things I saw as a small boy. My experience with 'fine art' is all negative. I can do without the Maplethorps, the Chagalls, and the entire host of silly avant garde 'artists' who infested the imaginations of our generations!

Have to remember to tell my wife not to burn my artwork, ever.

I saw the name "Simon Templar" amongst the graphics. Interesting!

He's very good, reminds me of Rockwell

These illustrators are the real artists that should be celebrated. Their body of work puts the Masters to shame. Where are their museums? (Except here at Pete's)

Could you possibly do a video on Norm Saunders? His work on the Wacky Packages is worth it.

"Started at 13 years old" - talent is usually long, hard work. And he supported his wife by his paintings, who later burned them instead of giving them away.

Os ilustradores são os mais criativos.

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I didn't know Emma Watson was an artist!

Have you ever done a video on Steele Savage?

What an amazing artist ... cannot believe his wife burnt his painting, terrible!

This was such a joy to watch. What a talent! Thank you!

Alas, seldom has one of your fine illustrators been so thoroughly bypassed by the trends of time. Patriotism and the military? What are you, some kind of right-wing extremist? The family? No this-or-that-normative work, you bigot! Hunting? We know what certain small groups have made of celebrations of that. And magazines of any description? They've become excuses for ads. We could miss the pulp detectives, though in real life most of a PI's income was generated by obtaining evidence of infidelity for divorce cases. Nonetheless, I remember Argosy, and applaud your celebration of Mr. Watson!

Thanks