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11 Facts About Charles Mozley

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Charles Alfred Mozley was a British artist who was a teacher.

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Charles Mozley was a prolific book illustrator and designer of book covers, posters and prints.

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When he left the RCA in 1937, Charles Mozley taught life drawing, anatomy and lithography at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts.

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At the start of the Second World War, Charles Mozley joined the British Army and worked for military intelligence and on camouflage designs.

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In 1940, Charles Mozley submitted a number of works to the War Artists' Advisory Committee.

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Charles Mozley was in the Royal Engineers, and retired with the rank of Acting Lieutenant-Colonel.

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Charles Mozley designed film posters for Alexander Korda, theatre posters for the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith and worked on mural designs for the Festival of Britain.

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Charles Mozley designed posters for the London Underground, Shell and for Lyons tea-rooms.

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In 1979, a retrospective of Charles Mozley's work was held at the King Street Gallery in London and his drawings of Venice were exhibited at Somerset House in support of the Venice in Peril Fund.

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Charles Mozley died of heart failure in 1991, surviving his wife by two years.

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From 1971 until his death, Charles Mozley lived in Kew, in a house which he had bought from another artist, John Plant.