Melbourne Brindle
Ewart Melbourne Brindle (November 18, 1904 – September 19, 1995) was an Australian-American illustrator and painter. His work included posters for World War II
Melbourne Brindle was born in and named for
Brindle was initially known for his black and white work, for which he won medals at the 1934 and 1938 New York Art Directors Club shows.
He collected and restored antique cars, and in the late 1960s retired from advertising and devoted himself to painting; he spent several years researching and creating Twenty Silver Ghosts, a book of paintings of pre–World War I Rolls-Royces with text by Phil May. It was published in 1971
Melbourne Brindle was married for fifty years to Louise "Mimi" Ives Congdon, with whom he lived in San Francisco, CA., New Canaan, CT., and Block Island, R.I., along with their daughter.[11][12] His second marriage was to Emily Bennis; in 1978 he moved to her hometown of Boston. They later lived in Camden, Maine, and finally in Vero Beach, Florida, where he died at the age of 90 after a series of strokes.[2][13][14] He is buried in Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston.[13]
Publications
- Famous GM Cars: A General Motors Family Album. Paintings by Melbourne Brindle, social and historical background descriptions for each period by OCLC 4377143
- Twenty Rolls-Royce Silver Ghosts: The Incomparable Pre-World War I Motor Car, 1907–1914. Paintings by Melbourne Brindle, text by Phil May, introduction by Julien Levy. New York: McGraw Hill, 1971. ISBN 9780214653551.
References
- ^ ISBN 9780961611200, cited at "Melbourne Brindle, 1904 – 1995", AskArt.com, retrieved February 8, 2016.'Art Instruction 3 (1939) 31.
- ^ a b c d e f Eric Pace (October 2, 1995). "Melbourne Brindle, Artist and Designer Of Stamps, Dies at 90". The New York Times.
- ^ ISBN 9780942604801, p. 211.
- ^ a b c Marcia L. Vose, "An Illustrator's Passion", Biographical essay, Melbourne Brindle: An Illustrator's Passion, November 3 – December 15, 2007, Exhibition catalog, Vose Galleries of Boston (pdf).
- ^ ISBN 9781596130050, p. 306.
- ^ The Bridgeport Post, October 3, 1971, p. C-3.
- Saturday Evening Post271.3, May 1, 1999, p.56.
- Swann Auction Galleries, retrieved February 8, 2016.
- ^ "Propaganda, Patriotism, and Protest: Posters from the World War II and Vietnam War Eras: Support" Archived 2016-02-25 at the Wayback Machine, Booth Library, Eastern Illinois University, April 15, 2005.
- ^ "Seventh World Peace through Law Conference Set for Washington October 12 to 17", American Bar Association Journal volume 61 (September 1975) 1105.
- ^ The San Francisco Examiner, 17 Jan 1974, Page 45 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/70454428/congdon-dow-gilbert-obit/
- ^ "Clipped from the Bridgeport Post". The Bridgeport Post. May 1963. p. 22.
- ^ Find A Grave, retrieved February 8, 2016.
- ^ Notes and Commentary, Automobile Quarterly 35.1, 1996, p. 112.
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