Arthur Ferrier (1891 – 27 May 1973) was a Scottish artist, illustrator and

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. Ferrier was born and started work in

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, Scotland as an

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. He freelanced as a cartoonist for the '' Daily Record'' there. He moved to London and drew joke cartoons for a number of weekly magazines, including '' Punch'', ''The Humorist'' and '' London Opinion''. In 1930, he produced a weekly strip glamour cartoon called "Film Fanny". A London paper, the ''

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'', published his glamour drawing under the title "Our Dumb Blonde", which ran from 1939 to 1946. A comic strip called "Spotlight on Sally" in the ''Pictorial'' was followed by another called "Eve". In 1941 Arthur Ferrier teamed-up with the well-known glamour photographer

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to produce the book ''Arthur Ferrier's Lovelies Brought to Life by Roye''. It was published by Chapman and Hall. In addition to his printed work, Ferrier also painted during

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. Some of this work is in the collection of the

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in London. He also produced a set of drawings used on sets of

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ware from the Royal Albert China Collections.

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Arthur Ferrier – Comic creator
(Lambiek comic shop)
Arthur Ferrier
(John Noott Galleries) 20th-century Scottish painters Scottish male painters Scottish editorial cartoonists Scottish illustrators Artists from Glasgow 1973 deaths 1891 births 20th-century Scottish male artists {{Scotland-painter-stub