chippy
A Fixture
My home town museum in Weston-Super-mare is displaying the original iconic Kitchener Poster . This is the first time it has been allowed out of the Imperial War Museum in a 100 years , the reason is the artist Alfred Leete was from Weston-Super-mare .
Today I visited the museum and I have taken a large number of photos . Other works by the artist are also on show alongside some of which I will share here
Alfred Leete was born the son of a farmer in Northampton on the 28th August 1882 . The family moved to Weston before he was 5 . At the age og 12 he started work in a surveyor's office in Bristol , this was followed by jobs as a draughts man and lithographer .
In 1898 aged 16 he had his first cartoon accepted by The Daily Graphic . Other magazines were starting to accept his work and when in 1905 Punch published one of his drawings he decided to become a full time illustrator .
The first appearance of this poster was on the cover of a weekly magazine The London Opinion Sept. 1914 . The Parliamentary Recruiting changed the wording and turned it into the poster we all know now
WW1 Alfred Leete joined The Artist Rifles , the regiment was made up of mainly painters, sculptors, engravers, architects and actors , some famous names in the regiment included William Morris Ford Maddox Brown and Dante Gabriel Rossetti .
After the war Alfred returned to a successful career as an illustrator designing posters for many top brand companies and posters for london Underground .
Alfred Died in 1933 aged 51 and is buried in a cemetery in Weston-Super-Mare .
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Well done Alfred you have not been forgotten .
chippy
Today I visited the museum and I have taken a large number of photos . Other works by the artist are also on show alongside some of which I will share here
Alfred Leete was born the son of a farmer in Northampton on the 28th August 1882 . The family moved to Weston before he was 5 . At the age og 12 he started work in a surveyor's office in Bristol , this was followed by jobs as a draughts man and lithographer .
In 1898 aged 16 he had his first cartoon accepted by The Daily Graphic . Other magazines were starting to accept his work and when in 1905 Punch published one of his drawings he decided to become a full time illustrator .
The first appearance of this poster was on the cover of a weekly magazine The London Opinion Sept. 1914 . The Parliamentary Recruiting changed the wording and turned it into the poster we all know now
WW1 Alfred Leete joined The Artist Rifles , the regiment was made up of mainly painters, sculptors, engravers, architects and actors , some famous names in the regiment included William Morris Ford Maddox Brown and Dante Gabriel Rossetti .
After the war Alfred returned to a successful career as an illustrator designing posters for many top brand companies and posters for london Underground .
Alfred Died in 1933 aged 51 and is buried in a cemetery in Weston-Super-Mare .
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Well done Alfred you have not been forgotten .
chippy
