GLYNN BOYD HARTE
Lancashire 1948 - 2003

artist, flaneur, francophile, dandy

Glynn Boyd Harte was one of the most brilliant and influential illustrators and painters to emerge in the post-pop world of London in the early 1970s.

Born in Rochdale, where his father, Herbert Harte, worked as a commercial artist and teacher. His grandfather had worked at a printing firm,

and one of his earliest memories was of a garden path laid out with old lithographic stones. Glynn recalled that print was in his blood.

Glynn attended Rochdale School of Art, later transferring to St Martin's in London, where he was particularly influenced by his teacher Fritz Wegner

and fellow pupil Nicola Bayley. She gave him a set of crayons, and encouraged him to experiment with colour - all his work until then had been in black and white.

At the Royal College of Art (RCA), he was taught by Brian Robb, and, although his subject was graphic art, at his final show in 1973 he sold all his work.

For the rest of his life, he mixed the careers of illustrator, poster designer and painter.

After his RCA show, the filmmaker and publisher Jonathan Gili encouraged Glynn to begin making lithographs, and together they published several books; i

ncluding Weekend In Dieppe, Sardines à l'huile and Metro-Land, John Betjeman's verses for a television film about the Metropolitan railway.

Glynn Boyd Harte was an important member of a group of illustrators who, graduating from the Royal College of Art and working in the early 1970s

were able to repurpose their craft and to direct it towards a greatly expanded range of outcomes in design. Glynn’s work, and personal style,

had a delightful and distinctive mixture of humour, firmness of line and, above all, extravagant colour.

A long standing friend and collaborator with Trickett & Webb design. He designed a few early calendar pages for them too.

He was a master of the Art Workers Guild in London for many years and would often be found there wearing his signature co-respondent shoes.

Temples of Power limited ed. £650

Sardines a l'Huile
limited edition reprint, 2021, available £70

limited numbered edition/ 150 signed, 1981
with 8 exquisite full page colour lithographs and other illustrations

scarce title with Glynn Boyd Harte illus. dj. 1976
£28

lovely little paperback by Warren Editions with recipes by Jane Grigson

and we have some eary Trickett & Webb calendars with the odd page illustrated by GBH we can show you from our own collection!

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