| 词条 | John Gilroy (artist) |
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| name = John T. Y. Gilroy | image = John Gilroy.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1898|05|30|df=yes}} | birth_place = Whitley Bay, Northumberland, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1985|04|11|1898|05|30|df=yes}} | death_place = Guildford | nationality = British | spouse = | field = | training = Royal College of Art | education = Durham University | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = | elected = | website = | bgcolour = }} John Thomas Young Gilroy (30 May 1898 – 11 April 1985) was an English artist and illustrator, best known for his advertising posters for Guinness, the Irish stout. He signed many of his works, simply, "Gilroy". LifeBorn in Whitley Bay, Northumberland, England, Gilroy attended Durham University until his studies were interrupted by World War I, during which he served with the Royal Field Artillery. He resumed studying at the Royal College of Art in London, where he remained as a teacher. He taught at Camberwell College of Arts.[1] In 1925, he gained employment at S.H. Benson's advertising agency, where he created the iconic advertisement art for Guinness featuring the Zoo Keeper and animals enjoying Guinness.[2] He worked with Dorothy L. Sayers.[3] He created cover designs for the Radio Times, most famously, in 1936, one depicting a laughing cat.[4][5] He was also an accomplished portrait painter, numbering royalty, politicians, actors and many others amongst his sitters. He worked in his large studio at 10 Holland Park, London, the former home and studio of Sir Bernard Partridge. He was a long-standing and much loved member of the Garrick Club, where he was created a Life Member and Chairman of the Works of Art Committee 1970-1975. He was awarded and Honorary MA by Newcastle University in 1975, and was made a Freeman of the City of London in 1981 John Gilroy died at Guildford on 11 April 1985. FamilyHe married twice. First, in 1924, to Gwendoline Short, an artist like himself. They had one son - John Morritt in 1927. His second marriage, in 1950, was to Elizabeth Margaret Outram Bramley who already had a daughter (Jenefer) and a son (Robin). References1. ^{{cite book|author=Elizabeth Lomas|title=Guide to the Archive of Art and Design, Victoria & Albert Museum|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c3M3kdI5Xr4C&pg=PA54|date=1 January 2001|publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers|isbn=978-1-57958-315-6|pages=54–}} 2. ^{{cite book|author=Stephen Mansfield|title=The Search for God and Guinness: A Biography of the Beer that Changed the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I8KVxbDmAfkC&pg=PA230|date=13 October 2009|publisher=Thomas Nelson Inc|isbn=978-1-4185-8067-4|pages=230–}} 3. ^{{cite book|last=DuBose|first=Martha Hailey|title=Women of Mystery: The Lives and Works of Notable Women Crime Novelists|year=2000|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=9780312276553|pages=186|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kce5KJMgvAsC&pg=PA186&dq=john+gilroy+artist&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9cNeUvm1BsLh4AOWuoCgAg&ved=0CEsQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=john%20gilroy%20artist&f=false}} 4. ^{{cite web | title = BBC Radio 4 - The Art of Radio Times | work = BBC Online | accessdate = 2013-09-26 | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/galleries/p01h96nf }} 5. ^{{cite web |title=Cheers! How John Gilroy’s revolutionary drinks ads changed advertising - BBC Arts |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5nsJP13WRCDwqG2w3v7SPJ6/cheers-how-john-gilroy-s-revolutionary-drinks-ads-changed-advertising |publisher=BBC |accessdate=27 December 2018}} External links
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