{"id":3781,"date":"2008-12-11T01:30:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T01:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/12\/11\/the-art-of-dugald-stewart-walker-1883-1937\/"},"modified":"2011-01-24T11:39:30","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T11:39:30","slug":"the-art-of-dugald-stewart-walker-1883-1937","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/12\/11\/the-art-of-dugald-stewart-walker-1883-1937\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Dugald Stewart Walker, 1883\u20131937"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A posting of Dugald Stewart Walker’s work<\/a> this week at the always excellent Golden Age Comic Book Stories<\/a> sent me back again to the Internet Archive to see if there might be further examples among their collection of scanned library books. Sure enough there’s not only a copy of the book which GACBS sampled from, Padraic Colum’s The Girl Who Sat By The Ashes<\/em><\/a>, but also other fairy tale collections by Colum, including the one featured here, The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said<\/em><\/a> (1918). Colum is well-represented in the Internet Archive’s American Library section and many of his titles seem to be at least partly illustrated. A cursory glance at some of the others turned up his retelling of Greek myths<\/a> illustrated by Willy Pog\u00e1ny.<\/p>\n

I’m not as keen on Walker’s work as I am other artists of this period\u2014he has a tendency to give his adult characters gnome-like features\u2014but the line work and compositions are first class. The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said<\/em><\/em> is especially nice for its many peacock details, some of which are featured below.<\/p>\n

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left: Bloom-of-Youth and the Witch of the Elders; right: What the Peacock and the Crow Told Each Other. <\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Peacocks<\/a>
\n\u2022 Willy Pog\u00e1ny\u2019s Parsifal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A posting of Dugald Stewart Walker’s work this week at the always excellent Golden Age Comic Book Stories sent me back again to the Internet Archive to see if there might be further examples among their collection of scanned library books. Sure enough there’s not only a copy of the book which GACBS sampled from, … Continue reading “The art of Dugald Stewart Walker, 1883\u20131937”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,21,48],"tags":[1095,1213,444,2198],"class_list":["post-3781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-fantasy","category-illustrators","tag-dugald-stewart-walker","tag-golden-age-comic-book-stories","tag-peacocks","tag-willy-pogany"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-YZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}