1. David Gentleman studied art and painting at the Royal College of Art under Edward Bawden and John Nash.
17 Facts About David Gentleman
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David Gentleman has worked in watercolour, lithography and wood engraving, at scales ranging from platform-length murals for Charing Cross Underground Station in London to postage stamps and logos.
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David Gentleman's themes include paintings of landscape and environmental posters to drawings of street life and protest placards.
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David Gentleman has written and illustrated many books, mostly about countries and cities.
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David Gentleman designed a number of British commemorative postage stamps.
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David Gentleman stayed there as a junior tutor for two years before becoming a freelance artist.
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David Gentleman has lived and worked on Gloucester Crescent in Camden Town since 1956, and in Huntingfield, Suffolk, travelling only for work.
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David Gentleman has four children: a daughter by his first wife Rosalind Dease, a fellow-student at the RCA, and two daughters and a son by his second wife Susan Evans, the daughter of the writer George Ewart Evans.
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David Gentleman's work is represented in Tate Britain, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum the Imperial War Museum, the Postal Museum, London and the Fitzwilliam Museum.
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David Gentleman engraved a series of 32 covers for the New Penguin Shakespeare series.
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David Gentleman wrote and illustrated four books about a small child on holiday: Fenella in Ireland, Greece, Spain and the South of France.
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David Gentleman has illustrated many books by other people, including drawings for the cookbook Plats du Jour.
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Between 1962 and 2000, David Gentleman designed 103 stamps for the Post Office, making him the most prolific stamp designer in Britain at that time.
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David Gentleman won the Phillips Gold Medal for postage stamp design in both 1969 and 1979.
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David Gentleman has designed posters for public institutions including London Transport, the Imperial War Museum, and the Public Record Office.
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David Gentleman regretted that these images were not displayed as actual posters.
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David Gentleman's largest design was an installation in 2007 of 100,000 drops of blood, one for each person already killed in that war.