What a rare and wonderful-and consistently excellent-series this is!

So many worlds of wonder! Seeing these works is like discovering a buried treasure full of diverse and spectacular jewels. You are the Indiana Jones of lost illustrations.

thank you so much for bringing all this wonderful art and information on these great artists.

This is the most relaxing and satisfying series on KZfaq. I could watch this content on loop.

A great series! Love the work shown and the interesting commentary on it.

Binge watching - fascinating as an amateur illustrator and cartoonist added joy as Art History fan and daughter of a History teacher 🥰

This channel is Much Appreciated for the artistic inspiration and cultural history that it shares.

I’m very happy of having found this series. Wonderful images and biographic detail of the artists. Many thanks

',,,gloriously frivolous,,' And that, Sir, is why you are a poetic genius . Respectfully submitted for your consideration Gregg Oreo Long Beach CA etats unis

Pete, I am slowly but surely working my way through the series and still have quite a way to go. I am truly thankful to you for taking time and effort to create this fabulously rich and informative collection of videos. It has always saddened me that the work of these tremendously inspired illustrators and designers should be considered a 'secondary art form' unworthy of the attention and praise given to more 'serious', recognised artists. You have achieved a tremendous task in bringing them to a greater audience and judging by the comments I read below your videos I am not the only one who is grateful for your dedication. Thank you.

Such an interesting series. This is a class production. Thank you so much.

Another enjoyable episode, so thank you very much again for your wonderful work. I was interested to learn about Fortunato Depero and Ann Fish not knowing them at all despite being interested/studied the period. I was so impressed by the verve of the line work from the final artist (Hurst), it shows the fruits of persistent, focused drawing practice. Very inspiring!

Nothing is ever to long when it is interesting as those videos are thankyou for Sharing

Wonderful stuff! I'm so glad. I just discovered your channel. You've put a lot of effort into it and I thoroughly appreciate it. THANK YOU!!!

Excellent utude piece. I thoroughly enjoyed it and will be looking out for more.

Wow, superb on all levels. The illustrations told wonderful stories. The music was appropriate, the narration was just enough. Thank you!

Another superb effort. Love how you put these together.

I totally enjoyed this. I love that vintage ad style.

I cannot get enough! ❤️

Henry Clive , you cant go wrong with Pastels , an being self taught ..Earl Hurst ..the Colliers cover of the Girl doing her eyes in make up was hilarious..just luv that period .

im so happy that i found this channel

Thanks for highlighting these great illustrators 😊

These greats illustrators ( pre-photographic magazine cover's era ) are fabulous! There were a lot of them working at great stores graphic catalogs industries, and also - because I knew about them at my very beginning in advertising - decorating cinema theatres at the launch of new productions.... Re-descovering these hiden masters is not only a tribute by themselves rather than a gif for us! Thanks for your effort in sharing this material!

So much talent...brilliant

Excellent and really enjoyable viewing, this popped up in my stream and am now ploughing thru your “back catalogue”, many thanks.

Hurst is amazing. Thanks, professor!

That's the kind of art and illustration I really like to see. Thanks for sharing.

This series is so fascinating that I keep forgetting to "Like".

i feel so in-love 1st time watching his drawing !

I love this series. Thanks!

Finally Mr Beard, with this presentation, you started looking at these great artist's working methods/techniques - I'd noticed you hadn't touched on this in earlier videos. Your small army (at this point) of admirers of your presentations, I'm sure would love you to explore the underbellys of the works as well, as you go, along with your insights. And also, I couldn't help laughing as I noticed someone has made the effort to click on the the "Thumbs Down" button...oh dear... Right, onto installment #10!

Fantastic video, never heard of Heinrich Kley, before seeing this.

Pete - Taschen or some similar publisher should employ you to put together these episodes into coffee table books, you've already done most of the work - I love your content and am always evangelizing about it

Good stuff. Very professional and we'll put together. Thanks.

Beautiful video! Thank you Mr. Beard

Amazing, thanks.

Brilliant, thank you.

very interesting video going to watch the others

Thank you, another terrific episode. Watching two episodes back to back tells me you have judged the length perfectly and it saves them from being a ‘bang your head against the wall’ list of names. Do you know of any series of these artists published recently? I bought the “Design” series of British artists from Postscript a couple of months ago...

Thanks for the video

Kley is one of my favorite illustrators😊❤️

Fantastic vid

Muito bom! Thanks!

Your channel is supremely underrated. I am thankful you've taken the time and effort to research and provide us information about these forgotten artists. They'll serve as a major inspiration for many! I'm happy to own one of the only art books produced that collected Earl Oliver Hurst's work. Do you know of any artbooks from your coverage that you could recommend?

Awesome for self taught for that period in time

Thank you

To be remembered

0:30 Heinrich Kley

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Theres one about Henrique Alvim Corrêa? He is from my country, Brazil, and he make some of the ilustrations from the book War of the Worlds of H.G. Wells, it will be nice to see a illustrator from my own country.

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Henry Clive was not exclusively self taught. He studied with some of the greatest illustrators of his day in New York City.

3:07 Henry Clive

11:13 Earl Oliver Hurst

I've watched several of your amazing videos so far but I am curious about one thing. When did acrylic paint become a common medium? Several times when an artist uses broad areas of solid colour you speculate that the easiest way to achieve such a look would be gouache because painting a solid area in watercolour would be even more difficult but would acrylic not have been a viable alternative as well? I'm just genuinely curious. Like most of the other commenters I am in love with you channel, as it is introducing me to a whole world of art I had never considered before.

Joe Bowler, Joe de Mers, Paul Burns and Frédéric Varady might be good subjects to include in these videos as well. Just an idea.

5:17 Anne Fish

I am continuing with my plan to watch all of the "Unsung" series videos, and have been appreciating each one as a gem all its own. However, I do have one wish: In spite of the musical soundtracks being as carefully curated as the illustrations, I have been finding the music a bit too loud, as compared with the pleasant baritone of Mr. Beard, the narrator. Just a thought...

1:17 the person's back climbing into the skull's eye socket turns into the skull's nose. There's other parts. Kley's painting "Demons in the Factory" (not shown) was commissioned by the Krupp family and hung in the factory's cafeteria. Since Krupp machinery, etc., was a major force its seems doubtful he was out of favor with the political and military of the times they supported. Walt Disney featured Wernher von Braun on his television show. Off in *left field* what's to say Kley wasn't an art director for 'Fanastia' as his style was used by Disney studios? Disney's quote "Without the drawings of Kley ... " is open to interpretation. Storyboard drawings? Why reverse-engineer his style when it would have been easier to have Kley come to Disney Studios? With the war on the horizon giving a German credit wouldn't have be prudent. (Same reason the 'Katzenjammer Kids' was changed to the 'Captain and the Kids' during WWI.) *Thanks* again for the presentation. Enjoyed it

Disney is very good at "hijacked" art. I am not sure if I am paying Disney a complement or an insult, having pointed this out, however.

All lovely stuff, but Dopero! Wow! Great Artist with lousy politics! But his designs are astonishing!

3:42 Norma Shearer.

great and beautiful, but with a lot of great video's like this,, loud music is distracting and drowns out what the narrator is saying,

how they painted all this art without digital ?

Dommage la langue étrangère n'est aucune utilité de compréhension pour m'intéresser sur se sujet même la traduction française se lirer trop vite donc je passerai à autre chose .

Not an illustrator here. Good video anyway

Cut out the background piano...Can’t listen...Your deluding the power of the human voice...

Gouache: It's pronounced gwash not gooash.

Thank you

7:51 Fourtunato Depero