Artist     Lilian Buchanan
Title      Art School Model
Date      1970's
object    Painting
Media    oil
Size       51 x 40.5cm
Ref          573

Purchased for the Academy in 1976

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Art School Model
Born in 1914, Lilian Buchanan exhibited widely in the Oxfordshire area and has shown work regularly at the Royal Academy and through the Royal Society of Portrait Painters exhibitions. Lilian also worked as an illustrator achieving significant success with her work for several Enid Blyton ‘Mystery of…’ books, and the updated Malory Towers covers in the late 1950s .

A study of her work by William Conely appeared in issue no.22 of "Studies in Illustration", the newsletter of IBIS, the Imaginative Book illustration Society: http://bookillustration.org/index.htm.

IBIS exists to encourage research into, and exchange of information concerning, book and periodical illustrators and their publishers. The main emphasis is on the illustration of texts in English since the 1830s, but IBIS embraces all aspects of illustrative art.

Other illustrative work by Buchanan include: The Cherrys series by Will Scott, a 14-book series published by Brockhampton Press and released between 1962 and 1965. The Marlows series by Hilda Boden, published by Brockhampton Press, from the 1960s. Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Malcolm Saville, 1969. Silver Birches by Kathleen O'Farrell, published by Frederick Warne & Co in 1949. The Song of the Gipsy by Marguerite Gascoigne, published by Frederick Warne & Co in 1933.

In addition to her work as an illustrator, Lilian Buchanan has art works in private collections throughout the UK including Oxford University and the RWA Permanent Collection, which has an early depiction of an art school model. She has been a member of the RWA since 1968 and exhibited in a group show of artist members at the RWA in 1976.

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