Posters by A. Paxton Chadwick, Manchester : in : Posters and Publicity : Commercial Art annual : 1927 : John Harrison & Geoffrey Holme : The Studio Ltd. : London 1927
Two examples, reproduced in black and white, of posters by A. Paxton Chadwick. They appear in the 1927 Commercial Art Annual, Posters and Publicity.
A. Paxton Chadwick (1903 - 1961) was a local Mancunian who at this date was just setting up shop as a commercial artist in the city. He went on to become a teacher at Summerhill at Leiston in Suffolk and is best recalled as being one of the "Suffolk Artists". At this time he had some connection, I suspect, with local advertising agent C.W. Hobson who had, in 1921, set up the Cloister Press in the city and Paxton Chadwick did work for them as well as for the Manchester Ship Canal Company.
The first poster is for one of the various "Civic Weeks" that were in Manchester, and other cities, features of the inter-war years. This is for the Pageant that took place in Heaton Park. Manchester's first Civic Week was held in 1926, and there is both a Manchester Guardian Supplement as well as an official handbook to the event that took place between 2nd and 6th October so I suggest thsi poster is from 1926 and that would make sense being in a 1927 annual.
The second poster is for a one man show of his work to be held at 2 Mount Street in the city centre. Again undated I wonder if this too dates from 1926.
Posters by A. Paxton Chadwick, Manchester : in : Posters and Publicity : Commercial Art annual : 1927 : John Harrison & Geoffrey Holme : The Studio Ltd. : London 1927
Two examples, reproduced in black and white, of posters by A. Paxton Chadwick. They appear in the 1927 Commercial Art Annual, Posters and Publicity.
A. Paxton Chadwick (1903 - 1961) was a local Mancunian who at this date was just setting up shop as a commercial artist in the city. He went on to become a teacher at Summerhill at Leiston in Suffolk and is best recalled as being one of the "Suffolk Artists". At this time he had some connection, I suspect, with local advertising agent C.W. Hobson who had, in 1921, set up the Cloister Press in the city and Paxton Chadwick did work for them as well as for the Manchester Ship Canal Company.
The first poster is for one of the various "Civic Weeks" that were in Manchester, and other cities, features of the inter-war years. This is for the Pageant that took place in Heaton Park. Manchester's first Civic Week was held in 1926, and there is both a Manchester Guardian Supplement as well as an official handbook to the event that took place between 2nd and 6th October so I suggest thsi poster is from 1926 and that would make sense being in a 1927 annual.
The second poster is for a one man show of his work to be held at 2 Mount Street in the city centre. Again undated I wonder if this too dates from 1926.