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Charles
Clixby Watson (1906 – 1964)
“Market
Woman”
Pen
& Ink Drawing
Signed
with monogram twice and titled
9
3/8” x 6 7/8” (238mm x 175mm)
Overall
framed size 18 3/8” x 15 1/4” (465mm x 388mm) IMAGE
“Odolisque”
Lino
Cut. 7/50. Signed with monogram, titled and
numbered in pencil
Mount
opening 5 ¼” x 8 ¼” (135mm x 210mm)
Overall
framed size 12 ¾” x 15 ¼” (224mm x 385mm) IMAGE
Charles Clixby Watson was born in Brixton,
South London in 1906. He overcame
childhood paralysis to study art and attended St Martin’s School of Art from
1920 to 1924 under Robert Swan and Stafford Leake. He then went on to Goldsmiths’ College School
of Art from 1926-27 under Stanley Anderson.
He exhibited at the Leicester Galleries and other venues. He was well known for his posters advertising
for women to become nurses notable Bitsy and Keep Calm and Think Like
a Nurse. He also did an enormous of
illustrative work for publications such as the Radio Times and Good
Housekeeping and painted covers for John Bull Magazine and image of Victoria
Train Station. He lived at Braughing in Hertfordshire and died in 1964.
