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3 unusual facts about Frank Brangwyn


Herbst Theatre

Eight large beaux-arts murals, created by Frank Brangwyn for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, adorn the walls while overhead five chandeliers hang from the blue and gold-leaf ceiling.

John Augustus Walker

Walker also was deeply influenced by the famed painter, illustrator and muralist Frank Brangwyn.

Urushibara Mokuchu

After the museum job, Urushibara worked independently, collaborating with English and French designers on prints—notably with Frank Brangwyn.


Cecil Howard Lay

He then travelled in Belgium and the Netherlands for a while, studying painting, and became a close friend of Frank Brangwyn, and also corresponded with Ezra Pound.

Fine Art Society

Other living exhibitors at the London premises included Sir John Everett Millais, John Singer Sargent, Burne-Jones, Frank Brangwyn, Walter Richard Sickert, Walter Crane, George Washington Lambert and Joseph Southall, and more recently Leonard Rosoman, Emma Sargent, Emily Young and Geoffrey Clarke.

Gwendoline Davies

In particular, they purchased many works by the Impressionists and post-Impressionists, although they also acquired holdings of 20th-century modern artists, such as Josef Herman, Oskar Kokoschka, Augustus John, Stanley Spencer, Frank Brangwyn, and Eric Gill.


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