Hi Albert. Thanks as ever for your support and as I said I don't intend to quit. I might take a break from them when I hit 100, but don't worry, Blaine is coming in 92 and if memory serves Sime is not far off too. I'm nowhere near the bottom of the barrel yet.

Hello and thanks a lot for your favourable comment. I must show your 'listen to you for hours' comment to the current Mrs. Beard...

Hi Mark and thanks for your continued interest

Hello and thanks for comment. And even more thanks for watching them all - that makes two of us!

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment

Hello and thanks. I'm tryimg to come up with something special for 100 but haven't come up with anything yet.

Hello again and many thanks for this comment and your ongoing appreciation of the channel. It's really rewarding to see some viewers are in it for the long haul.

Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation.

Hello and thanks. I intend to carry on for the foreseeable future, unless I fall off my perch in the meantime.

Hello and as usual thanks a lot for your continued interest in the channel.

Hello and many thanks to both of you for your appreciation and support. It really is a boost to morale to know that viewers understand and enjoy what I'm trying to do with the channel.If I can widen the knowledge of these forgotten talents then I won't have been wasting my time.

🤗😇Absolutely!!👍💯💯

Hi again and it's great to know that you - and others- seem happy to stick around for more content on the channel.

Hello again and thanks a lot. Its great to have viwers who continue to watch and enjoy the channel.

I hadn't thought anyone would get that in the first 8 comments or I would have looked and replied to you with what I had found. See my comment for the New York Tribune report. Edit: Or don't see as neither that reply nor the second one I made to this comment are showing. There must be some banned keyword in the newspaper report. Anyway, died a few hours after the operation but otherwise correct.

Raphael Kirchner Dies After Operation --- Austrian Artist Survives Only Few Hours in Hospital. Raphael Kirchner, an Austrian painter, best known for his portrayal of a type which has become known as "The Kirchner Girl," died yesterday at the French Hospital, a few hours after he had undergone an operation for appendicitis. During the two years he had been in this country Mr. Kirchner had become well known for his magazine covers, panels and portraits. His largest work in the United States is "The Seven Deadly Sins," which adorns the lobby of the Century Theatre. He was at work on a portrait of Mrs. Charles Dillingham when he was stricken on Wednesday afternoon. His wife was with him when he died. They had no children. New York Tribune, Friday August 3, 1917, Page 7

Hello and thanks for the clarification about his death. And those 7 sins are featured in the video - some of his best work.

Hello and thanks for the information. I'll refrain from asking how such a record ended up in such a place.

Hello and thanks as ever for your comment. I wish I could have found out how they shared the workload - who did what etc. And I found it interesting how theor style evolved into more sophisticated image making.

Hello and naturally enough I'm delighted by your comment. That's dedication that brings a tear to my eye and a lump to my throat. If only others would do the same. Thanks a lot doesn't seem adequate but I'm saying it anyway.

Hello and thanks a lot. I'm thinking I'll simply feature four of my all time favourites for a change in 100, but I'm open to more imaginative suggestions.

@@petebeard I think that's an excellent idea, Pete, but I won't speculate what are your top four!

Hello and I'm very grateful for your appreciation of the channel. Positive viewer feedback is a real boost, so thanks a lot.

Hello and thanks as usual for your kind words. And it's interesting to compare the sensitivity of his work with the more obvious pinups that followed by others, particularly in the USA.

Hello again and I'm particularly pleased that you enjoyed this instalment. I like to think (although I know it's an impossibility) that I'll cover every unsung hero before I'm done. But I'm happy to have obliged with both these spectaular and neglected talents. Thanks for your support.

Hello again and that's a very nice thing to say. It doesn't particularly bother me that the unsung series attracts fewer views but I wouldn't mind knowing why that would be so. If anything I'd have expected the reverse to be the case - short attention spans and all that.

Hello and that's very rewarding to hear. Funny (as in tragic) how what is undoubtedly the greatest resource for learning humans have ever created ends up as a repository for nincompoops and narcissists.

Hello and for some reason your comment came through twice. But thanks a lot for it, and it's great to know that I'm introducing you to these forgotten illustrators.

Hello and thanks for the appreciation.

Hello, and I just hope I don;t fall off my perch any time soon...

Hello again, and thanks as ever.

OK, that worked, so it must have been something to do with Chronicling America that I mentioned in my blocked comment, though I didn't link it.

Everything comes to he who waits. KZfaq works in myesterious ways...

P.s. After posting this comment read your reply to 'justspacegoatfart' below regarding short attention spans. Perhaps, its the number four, four illustrators in a video? When giving an architectural presentation no more than three ideas appeared to be the maximum the audience would comprehend (and usually the last was emphasized since that's was the one you wanted). Same in painting, an odd number of say flowers is more interesting. Three is an vivid odd number. Four static. I admit having a short attention span myself that I start to doze off starting at four. Not that their work isn't interesting its just I have to unzip my head and pour out some info to make room for more. Also, gonna say as you know Mucha, M.M. Parrish, are pre-packaged compared to unknown Illustratiors where an effort is needed for familiarity. And, some Illustrators have greater talent, wider variety of skills, i.e. colour vs. just black and white, with the exception of Henrich Kley. genuflect So, three unknown not so talented (cringe) Illustrators when weighted against a well known donkey kong Illustator? Maybe experiment with 3.5 Illustrators? Are you familiar with any " height impaired" illustrators? And, yes, there is a long quene backlog waiting. Less Illustrators per video with more frequent videos might equate to the same effort in research, editing, etc., except downloading. Especially for us short attention spanners, one per week at the same time.

Hello again and is it my imagination or has it been a while? Thanks for the remarkably esoteric fact about the chimney sweep, and you may well be right about the numbers lark. On the othe hand I tried both 3 and 5 early on in the series and it didn't make any noticeable difference. Whatever the reason Im ploughing on regardless as befits my curmudgeonly status. And sadly the only vertically challenged illustrator I know about is Toulouse Lautrec. Now I think of it I should probably do a solo piece about him.

@@petebeard Lautrec (Comte Henri Marie Raymond Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa) would be a fun solo. With the exception of Boris Arty and the one previous to him, Jacob, have made non-memorable comments. Yea, carry on, hip hip Speaking of chimney sweepers for some reason I have an image of Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb (Absolute History) holding a poor sweep ... displaced fantasy, I guess

Hello and thanks for your appreciation.

Hello and your support is greatly appreciated.

Hello again and thanks for the comment. And actually that's a pretty good idea for episode 100. I had just thought I'd feature 4 of my all time favourites for a change, but I'll certainly take that suggestion for consideration. And other Neumans have appeared from time to time way before Mad made him a star.

Hello and many thabks for your appreciation.

And good to hear from you too. Thanks.

Hello and thanks for the supportive comment.

Hi again and my thanks for your continued interest.

Hi again, and thanks for your dedication to the cause.

Hello again and thanks a lot.

Hello again and thanks s ever for yout support. Always welcome.

Hello again and you're more than welcome.

Hello and your continued engagement with the channel is much appreciated.

Hello and thanks. You have a point about that connection, at least in some examples.

Hello and thanksa lot for the positive reaction.

Hello again and I'm glad you continue to find content that appeals.

Hello and thanks for the appreciation. And yes there is an index. But the best I could do was to tuck it into the description boxes of unsung 75 (first 50) and 76(next 25). The boxes unfortunately limit the number of characters, which is why they are spread over2. Next update will be when I hit 100. Onwards and upwards.

Hello and that's what I like to hear. Thanks for your appreciation.

Hello and thanks a lot.

Hello again and he is in the pipeline somewhere.

@@petebeard Hello Pete Figured as much :) Interestingly (to me), Lowell's technique is similar to Franklin Booth and Joseph Coll who gave credit to Daniel Vierge's tonal values derived from photoengraving masks. So, one influence on the New Rochelle "Style" was a printing method. In left field I find it amusing how similar in appearance Franklin Booth is to the Lyendecker brothers. The Chicago look ?

Hello and many thanks for your appreciation. I hate to disappoint but both these illustrators were born too late to qualify for inclusion. There's no reason you would have known this but the featured illustrators have to have been born between 1850 and 1910. And the other condition is they have to be no longer with us, which Mr. Schwab is. I'm sorry if this seems arbitrary but I felt I had to have some restrictions, and as it stands even with those restrictions I've still got more illustrators to feature than I have already. And I'm not getting any younger so I probably won't even finish the list. But if its any consolation if I can find an excuse to feature either in some other context I will.

Hello and thanks for the comment. But I'm a bit puzzled by your reference to Saint Gaudens. Do you mean the sculptor of that name?

@@petebeard, yes.

@@biblehistoryscience3530 Hello and I thought it would be. But I'm sorry to have to disappoint you. The channel is devoted entirely to illustrators, rather than artists, so he won't be putting in an appearance.

@@petebeard, I'm sorry to hear that, but you're doing an amazing job with illustrators, so bravo anyway.

Many thanks for your comment and appreciation.

Hello and thabks as usual. I had nebver encountered the Petersham's work before, and tis seems to happen quite a lot. I now realise that many books which were popular in the USA just didn;t make it across the ocean. And I assume vice versa.

@@petebeard That's right! I had never heard (for example) of "Down With Skool" but it was a smash in the U.K!

@@TheMikester307 Hello again and I'm currently working on a video about the illustrator of that book and so many others, Ronald Searle. One of my all time favourites.

@@petebeard I love Searle! I treasure my well-worn copy of "Too Many Songs By Tom Lehrer With Not Enough Illustrations by Ronald Searle."

​@@TheMikester307 Now you've made me feel guilty. Only yesterday I was editing the Searle and other videos, to get them to length and give the videos some narrative momentum. And that's the very book I brutally expunged. Now I have to reinstate it or couldn't live with the guilt.

Hello and thanks a lot for the appreciation. But I have to disappoint you with regard to both these fellows, both of whom I'm glad to have been introduced to. To be unsung you have to be dead (and I know they are well and truly in that category). But you also have to have been born between 1850 and 1910 and both were too early, I'm afraid. And a casual google indicates that in any event I would not find eough illustrated material by either. Sorry.

Hello and I wish everyone would. You'd be surprised at the number of people who complain because the images aren't on screen long enough and don't seem to be aware of screenshots.

@@petebeard 🤦

Hi and thanks.

Hello and thats solved that little mystery for me. Thanks.

Hello and apparently yes it is. I must admit I had not made the connection, but a viewer pointed out that was why he used the name 'A Belgian Hare' for anonymity. Thanks for the appreciation.

Thank you! Cheers!

Hello and I think when do hit 100 of these I'll take a break from them for a while, and concentrate on the solo videos and others.

Now I do... LOL

Hello and others have noticed the same thing. He seems to have appeared in quite a few lder images way before Mad got their hands on him. He was a quite famous mascot for a product I can't remember some time in the early 20th century.

Yep I thought I was the only one to spot him 😀

Hello and no I haven't. To be honest I'd never heard of him so thanks a lot for the information, and a quick google suggests he has some very pleasing work to see But - and it's a big one - he has the misfortune to still be alive and I only feature those who are no longer with us. And by the looks of his photo he'll probably outlive me.

@@petebeard I was wondering about that and he isn't exactly a unknown to modern audiences. He does do some nice illustration though.

@@petebeard How about Dean Cornwell?

@@readhistory2023 Hello again and your wish is my command. Dean Cornwell features in unsung heroes 19. It belatedly struck me that viewers might want to check who appears where so there's an index of sorts in the description box of unsung 75, and another in the same place for 76. I had to split them as there were too many to get in one place. The next will be posted when I hit 100.

Hello and I don;t know my emojis very well - is it safe to assume this is a good one?

Nice grouping, Max Klinger, Alfred Kubin, Lyonel Feinger. Would make a nice presentation except Alfred Kubin was included in Unsung Heros of Illustration: 18. And, Ernesto Garcia Cabral (Chango) was in UHI: 23. Might be of interest Serguis Hruby UHI: 69. Btw, USI 75 & 76 has a list of the first 75 presentations in their preface ... but Pete can tell you that :)

@@vincentgoupil180 Hey Vincent, thank you so much for the heads up. For some reason when I put in the names of both Kubin and Cabral in his channel's search, it said > No matches " probably because they were in a group video. Thanks again for the help.

Hello and thanks a lot for your appreciation of the channel. l see my pal Vincent has beaten me to it with a response , but there is a mistake in there - not sure how. I haven't yet featured Kubin but he is on the list of future candidates for the series. And so is Klinger. Lord knows when they will appear as they are towards the back of a terrifyingly long queue of others. Feininger I'm unsure about. Last tie I looked there was hardly any evidence at decent resolution of his illustration work, and from the perspective of the channel, art is somewhat peripheral. But he's right about Cabral, and about the list of those already covered.

@@petebeard Thank you for the kind reply Pete. I understand you've got a lot of other artists to present. I just watched the Unsung 23 episode and it had another favorite of mine George Studdy. I have a recent book on Bonzo that I bought in the UK, some Japanese made Bonzo salt n pepper shakers, an ashtray and my Dad's original skill game to get some rings over a bone balanced on his nose. Love that pup.

Janet You're welcome and sorry for the wrong info on Alfred Kubin. Think Klinger and Kubin would be compatible for an Unsung Hero presentation if other Illustrators of kind could be found. H.R. Giger comes to mind but he was born 1940, too late for 1860-1920 requirement. Same for the painter Gustave Moreau, too early. Salvador Dali ? Don't know anything about Malloca except the You Tube "Gabriel Traveler" tours. Confuse the island with Matala, caves and artists, Joni Mitchell song.

Hello again and thanks as usual. Glad I could clear up that mystery too.

Hello and no I didn't. On the other hand I'm not sure what you mean by juvenile magazines. I'm only aware of comics, although some of the earlier ones had short stories in too. Would you care to elaborate? I'd hate to miss out on a topic that's ripe for a video.

Hi Pete, short stories as well as longer stories published in episodes have always contributed to magazines for both the youth aswell as grown-ups. The illustrations were done by the best artists. Some went on to publish comic strips, others managed to combine the two artforms very well. It's really interesting for you to look into. Take a look at the website of The Book Palace, for instance.

@@meertenwelleman6249 Hello again and I'll do that. Thanks a lot for the suggestion and if I can gather enough onformation and visual material hopefully there will be a video.

We hope so too, Pete, there is so much beauty in these illustrations and comic strips.

Hi again, and thanks for the recent comments. I got lucky with that music - and free of copyright too! And regarding Larsson he is currently waiting in line to feature. I have no idea when he will appear but given the prompting from your good self I'm sure I can bring him at least a bit nearer the front. Best wishes in the meantime and let's see what 2023 has in store.

The Cambridge dictionary defines illustration as follows... a picture in a book, magazine, etc. or the process of illustrating something: a full-page illustration colour/black and white illustrations And this is my own not entirely foolproof acid test.. If it was made to hang on a wall it is art, if it has some other commercial purpose then it is illustration. I also think that the concept of mass reproduction plays an important part. With art there's either only the one image or if a print they are limited editions. Equally I'm well aware that in America in particular it's common to refer to fantasy art, concept art, background art etcetera. But as far as I'm concerned it is still illustration. That's all I've got.

Hello and your wish is my command. He has been waiting in the ever-lengthening queue of other unsungs for a while and is making his way to the front. I honestly can't tell you when he will appear but it should be sooner rather than later.

@@petebeard thank you, that is very much appreciated.

Hello and thanks for the information.

Hello and no I haven't. The main reason being that I'd never heard of her until your comment. However thorough I think I've been there are always those who manage to evade me. So thanks a lot for the knowledge and I'll add her to the list. But please don't hold your breath - the list of those waiting to feature is longer than those who already have. And there I was thinking I might make about 6 instalments....