8-Orig. John Musgrave-Wood Pen&Ink Caricatures-Daily Mail-1930's Musical Celebs

Description: John Musgrave-Wood, (also known as “Emmwood”, 1915-1999) was a popular English cartoonist, caricaturist and painter. He studied at Leeds College of Art; but after eighteen months he gave up his studies to serve on an ocean cruise liner, where he began drawing caricatures of passengers. He returned to London in 1939. After active service in the war, he briefly studied portrait painting at Goldsmiths College. Musgrave-Wood freelanced as a cartoonist for various publications until joining the staff of Tatler & Bystander magazine in 1948 as theatre caricaturist. He also drew television review illustrations for Punch, created show business illustrations for the Sunday Express and contributed to Life magazine. In 1957, he joined the Daily Mail, where he remained as political cartoonist until his retirement in 1975. His work is still highly regarded, and a number of his pieces are in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London. These eight caricatures of well-known British singers, conductors and musicians of the 1930's are unsigned, original pen and ink+ drawings done for the Daily Mail. They are likely early (i.e. 1930's) examples of Musgrave-Wood's work, when he would have been in his early 20's and not so well known as when he subsequently became known as "Emmwood". Five of the drawings are approximately 3" x 4" and mounted on matte boards of 6" x 8". The other three are 4” x 4” and are mounted on matte boards of 7” x 9”. All are in fine condition, with no marks or damage at all. Hubert Leslie Woodgate OBE (1900 –1961) was an English choral conductor, composer, and writer of books on choral music. During the 1920s, he was organist at several London churches. In 1928, he joined the BBC; in 1934, was appointed BBC Chorus Master, taking responsibility for the BBC Chorus, the BBC's large amateur chorus, and the Wireless Chorus and Wireless Singers, made up of professionals.Reginald Foort (1893 –1980), FRCO, ARCM, was a cinema organist and theatre organist. He was the first official BBC Staff Theatre Organist from 1936 to 1938, during which time he made 405 broadcasts on the organ at St George's Hall, Langham Place. 'Reggie' was a hugely popular broadcaster in his heyday in the late 1930s and 1940s in Britain and later settled in the United States, where he similarly enjoyed an illustrious career performing and recording. Peter Dawson (1882 –1961) was an Australian bass-baritone and songwriter in the 1920s and 1930s, when he was possibly the most popular singer of that era. He said that at the time the gramophone was "an instrument of torture", excruciating for the recording artist, who needed "lungs of leather" to make an impression on the wax cylinders, which captured nothing but the very loudest noises. However, Dawson made his first recording in 1904, and continued to release songs for EMI and HMV until 1958. In this time he performed classical tunes such as Tchaikovsky's "Don Juan Serenade" and popular songs like "Waltzing Matilda".Rudy Starita (1899-1978) was a popular drummer, xylophonist, vibraphonist and band leader of the 1930’s.Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent (1895 –1967) was an English conductor, organist and composer widely regarded as Britain's leading conductor of choral works. The musical ensembles with which he was associated included the Ballets Russes, the Huddersfield Choral Society, the Royal Choral Society, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, and the London Philharmonic, Hallé, Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Symphony and Royal Philharmonic orchestras. He was co-founder of the London Philharmonic, was the first conductor of the Liverpool Philharmonic as a full-time ensemble, and played an important part in saving the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra from disbandment in the 1960s. Leonard Constant Lambert (1905 –1951) was a British composer, conductor, and author. He was the founder and music director of the Royal Ballet, and (alongside Dame Ninette de Valois and Sir Frederick Ashton) he was a major figure in the establishment of the English ballet as a significant artistic movement. His ballet commitments, including extensive conducting work throughout his life, restricted his compositional activities. However, one work, The Rio Grande, for chorus, orchestra and piano soloist, achieved widespread popularity in the 1920s, and is still regularly performed today. Jack Jackson (1906 –1978) was an English trumpeter and bandleader popular during the British dance band era, and who later became a highly influential radio disc jockey. The BBC's nickname "Auntie" is often credited to Jackson. Greta Gaye was a popular British singer of the

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