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Douglas Percy Bliss:
Spring, 1930
Framed (ref: 7838)
Signed with initials

Tags: Douglas Percy Bliss pen and ink watercolour animals children farms/domestic animals houses landscape leisure men women

Provenance: The Artist's family

Literature: Gargoyles and Tattie-Bogles, The Lives and work of Douglas Percy Bliss & PHyllis Dodd, Malcome Yorke, The Fleece Press, 2017p 79-80

Douglas did very little commercial work at any time, but in his scrapbook he pasted four line-drawn images of the seasons, two of which are hand-coloured, and one is dated 1930.  A Curwen Press connection seems quite possible though no printed version is known.

Bawden was already well-established with the Curwen Press as an illustrator, but the Director Oliver Simon was often slow to pay his artists.  Douglas tells the tale: 'Bawden and I had done some work for Simon and got no pay.  Time went on and at last we decided to write, each for himself, and ask for payment.  I wrote a beauty of a letter. Poor Simon nearly threw a fit. He sent a most insulting reply and said he had taken my name off the list of contributors to any of his concerns. And he did so.  As for Edward he never wrote at all and flourished. It was a lesson to me.  I never again disputed with an Editor.

Quoted in: Gargoyles and Tattie-Bogles, The Lives and work of Douglas Percy Bliss & PHyllis Dodd, Malcome Yorke, The Fleece Press, 2017