Lewis Baumer
Lewis Christopher Edward Baumer (August 8, 1870 – October 25, 1963)[1] was an English caricaturist who worked for more than fifty years for the British magazine Punch.
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Frontispiece for The Sea Lady by H.G. Wells
Baumer was born at St John's Wood, London, England, and had studied at the St John's Wood Art School under , at the Royal Academy of Arts, and at the Royal College of Art. His first drawings appeared in the Pall Mall magazine in 1893; in 1897, his first cartoon in Punch appeared.[2] In 1921, he was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics.[3]
List of works[]
Books illustrated by Lewis Baumer include:[4]
- Jumbles – Lewis Baumer (Pearson, 1897)
- Elsie’s Magician – Fred Whishaw (Chambers, 1897)
- The Three Witches – Mrs Molesworth (Chambers, 1900)
- Peter Piper's Feepshow – S. H. Hamer (1900), illustrated by Baumer and Harry B. Neilson
- My Pretty and Her Little Brother “Too” and Other Stories – Mrs Molesworth (1901)
- The Story of The Treasure Seekers – E. Nesbit (T. Fisher Unwin, 1902)
- Arms and The Woman: A Romance – Harold MacGrath (Pearson, 1903)
- Did You Ever? Verses and Pictures – Lewis Baumer (Chambers, 1903)
- Mrs Pritchard’s School – L. T. Meade (Chambers, 1904)
- Hermy: The Story of a Little Girl – Mrs Molesworth (1904)
- Hoodie – Mrs Molesworth (Chambers, 1905)
- The Boys and I: A Child’s Story For Children – Mrs Molesworth (Chambers
- The Hill Top Girl – L T Meade (Chambers, 1906)
- The Blue Baby and Other Stories – Mrs Molesworth (Chambers, 1907)
- A Girl From America – L T Meade (Chambers, 1907)
- The Rainbow Book: Tales of Fun and Fantasy - M. H. Spielmann & Others (1909) [The Gamekeeper’s Daughter]
- Barbara Bellamy: A Public School Girl – May Baldwin (Chambers, 1909)
- The Wild Irish Girl – E T Meade (Hurst, 1910)
- Easter Bells: A Book of Hoppe and Gladness – May Byron (1910)
- Did You Ever? – Lewis Baumer (Chambers, 1910)
- Canned Classics, and Other Verses – Harry Graham (Mills & Boon, 1911)
- Cherry Ripe and Other Famous Lyrics (1911)
- For Dear Dad – E T Meade (1911)
- The Gift of Love (Ed. A. H. Hyatt) (1911)
- The Perfect Gentleman: A Guide To Social Aspirants (Compiled from The Occasional Papers of Reginald Drake Biffin) – Harry Graham (Arnold, 1912)
- The Motley Muse: Rhymes For The Times – Harry Graham (Arnold, 1913)
- Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray (Hodder, 1913)
- The Complete Sportsman (Compiled from The Occasional Papers of Reginald Drake Biffin) – Harry Graham (Arnold, 1914)
- An Elegy on The Death of a Mad Dog (Adapted from Goldsmith by F. Norton) (1914)
- The Lighter Side of School Life – Ian Hay (Foulis, 1915)
- Love, The Adventurous – Charles Garvice (1917)
- Old Christmas and Bracebridge Hall – Washington Irving (Constable, 1918)
- The Harlequinade: An Excursion - Calthorp, etc. (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1918)
- The Shallow End – Ian Hay (Hodder, 1924)
- Silver and Gold: Poems – Enid Blyton (Nelson, 1925)
- Departmental Ditties and Other Verses – Harry Graham (Mills & Boon, 1925)
- Bright Young Things: A Book of Drawings – Lewis Baumer (Methuen, 1928)
- Winter Sportings – Reginald Arkell (Jenkins, 1929)
- Happy Families – H. Graham (Cape, 1934)
- Ski Fever – J. B. Emtage (Methuen, 1936)
- Adapted from The Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators – Alan Horne (1994)
References[]
- ^ Bryant, M (2000). Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists. Ashgate: Aldershot. ISBN 1-84014-286-3. Archived from the original on 18 July 2007. Retrieved 17 November 2007.
- ^ "Lewis Baumer". Comicopledia. Retrieved 17 November 2007.
- ^ "Lewis Baumer". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
- ^ Sansom, R.; S. Sansom. "Illustrators and Cartoonists, 1850 – 1950". Mulberry Gallery. Wantage, Oxfordshire, UK. Archived from the original on 9 June 2002. Retrieved 17 November 2007.
External links[]
- Baumer's Punch Illustrations in HeidICON
- Biography of Lewis Baumer
- Works by Lewis Baumer at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Lewis Baumer at Internet Archive
- Lewis Baumer at Library of Congress Authorities, with 3 catalogue records
Categories:
- 1870 births
- 1963 deaths
- Punch (magazine) cartoonists
- People from St John's Wood
- Alumni of the Royal College of Art
- English caricaturists
- Alumni of St John's Wood Art School
- Olympic competitors in art competitions