{"id":7572,"date":"2010-08-13T03:09:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T02:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=7572"},"modified":"2010-08-13T04:59:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T03:59:54","slug":"the-art-of-ray-frederick-coyle-1885-1924","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/08\/13\/the-art-of-ray-frederick-coyle-1885-1924\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Ray Frederick Coyle, 1885\u20131924"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Another illustrator who died young, Ray Coyle’s short life no doubt explains why his work isn’t more visible today. The first two illustrations here are from a 1920s edition of Jurgen<\/em><\/a> (1919), the scurrilous fantasy novel by James Branch Cabell which has been praised by enthusiasts of ironic comedy as diverse as Aleister Crowley and Michael Moorcock.<\/p>\n

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Some of the illustrations in this Flickr set<\/a> bear the date 1923 so they may have been Coyle’s last major work. Frank C Pap\u00e9 is the artist more commonly associated with Cabell, and while his art complements the author’s humour, Coyle’s elegant post-Beardsley style seems more suited to Jurgen<\/em>\u2019s worldly temperament.<\/p>\n

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This beautiful drawing is one of six pieces from a memorial book, To Remember Ray Frederick Coyle<\/em>, published in 1926. A stunning piece of art and this rebound edition<\/a> has an equally stunning cover design by Jeannie Sack. If anyone has a link to other drawings in this series, please leave a comment.<\/p>\n

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Another illustrator who died young, Ray Coyle’s short life no doubt explains why his work isn’t more visible today. The first two illustrations here are from a 1920s edition of Jurgen (1919), the scurrilous fantasy novel by James Branch Cabell which has been praised by enthusiasts of ironic comedy as diverse as Aleister Crowley and … Continue reading “The art of Ray Frederick Coyle, 1885\u20131924”<\/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":[2,30,42,4,21,48],"tags":[391,740,1624,65,1623],"class_list":["post-7572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-design","category-fantasy","category-illustrators","tag-aleister-crowley","tag-frank-c-pape","tag-james-branch-cabell","tag-michael-moorcock","tag-ray-frederick-coyle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1Y8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7572","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=7572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}