"Arthur Watts was a well-known illustrator and artist whose life was tragically cut short by a plane crash over the Swiss Alps in 1935 when he was only 42.
His first drawing for Punch, the English humour magazine, was published in 1912 but his work continued to appear regularly - with an 8-year gap due to the Great War - right up until his death. He also did four drawings a week for the Radio Times, illustrated a dozen or so books, including E.M. Delafields "Diary of a Provincial Lady", designed travel posters for the railways and the London Underground as well as editing and illustrating one book, "A Painter's Anthology".
I was intrigued by his illustrations for the two E M Delafield Provincial Lady books that I have managed to pick up at book sales and which I have just blogged about. I see from Amazon that these particular editions are still in print. I think I prefer my old battered copies however.
This is about all I can find out about Arthur Watts though I have trawled the web this evening for some time. If there is anybody reading this posting who knows a bit more about him than this, I would be very interested in your comments.
