#w. smithson broadhead

[antiqueanimals]

A Black Pug. W. Smithson Broadhead (1888-1960). Oil on board.

Christie's

[john-deco]

Agatha Christie Tumblr Fandom, I’m bored and wanna know your thoughts on the (so far) only Christie approved full body portrait of Hercule Poirot by W. Smithson Broadhead.

It fascinates me since it’s noticeably different compared to Albert Finney’s and David Suchet’s Poirot’s who are considered the closest to Poirot, with Finney being approved by Christie herself and Suchet being the family’s favorite (bar the small moustaches of course.

[tomoleary]

W. Smithson Broadhead (1888 - 1960) “The Continent” LMS Southern Railways Art Deco GWR (1936)

[puutterings]

it was no mere curiosity, however

  Sometimes he would spend the whole night puttering about the barn, startling the drowsy beasts in their stalls with the sudden ghostly nimbus of his lantern; or mending broken implements in the wagon shed where his fingers would become cracked and swollen with cold. His ear would be ever alert to catch a sound, a footfall, a voice.

ex Martha Ostenso, The Dark Dawn (1926) : 61 : link

first encountered in Hearst’s International Combined with Cosmopolitan (July 1926), thus —

Sometimes he would spend the whole night puttering about the barn , startling the drowsy beasts in their stalls with the ... It was no mere curiosity, however, that brought Peter Strand and Karen from their farm to the east, nearly a... page 50 : link

(the search was for “puttering” + “strand”)

the novel ran in six issues, June through November 1926, under the head (in the first installment) : “Dark Dawn, A New Novel by Martha Ostenso who won fame overnight with her first novel ‘Wild Geese’” Illustrations by W. Smithson Broadhead (1888-1960)

1 80:6 (June 1926) : 24-31, 191-200 : link 2 81:1 (July 1926) : 48-53, 179-186 (50) : link 3 81:2 (August 1926) : 64-69, 199-206 : link 4 81:3 (September 1926) : 54-57, 160-164 : link 5 81:4 (October 1926) : 72-75, 131-140 : link 6 81:5 (November 1926) : 98-101, 108-118 : link

An e-edition of the text is also available via Faded Page : link

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The Dark Dawn and its author are briefly treated by Grant Overton in “A Novelist from Nowhere,” in The Mentor (June 1927) : 56-57 : link In the caption to an illustration (provided by Dodd, Mead & Co.) that accompanies that piece, Hattie Murker is oddly and inaccurately described as the “heroine” of the novel.

Overton devotes a chapter to Ostenso in the second edition of his The Women Who Make Our Novels (1928) : 245-252 : link

The story’s melodramatic tone was noted and regretted in a review in The New York Times under the head “A Domineering Woman” (October 24, 1926) : link (paywall) In that review, it is suggested that Ostenso might well study the narrative technique of Willa Cather, “for it isn’t necessary to resort to melodrama to write persuasively of simple people.”  

There was a cozy, earthy disorder about the tool shed that comforted him. W. Smithson Broadhead illustration, in first installment of The Dark Dawn in Hearst’s International Combined with Cosmopolitan (June 1926) : link the passage is from page 42 in the novel : link  

[monkeyssalad-blog]

1939 illustration by W Smithson Broadhead by totallymystified Via Flickr: For the story These People by Marjory Hessell Tiltman. From Britannia And Eve magazine.

[spinmeround]

W Smithson Broadhead ~Young Woman with Kodak Camera 1912

[jadeseadragon]

W. Smithson Broadhead (1888 - 1960), Steve Donoghue, 1924, oil on canvas, 102 x 77 cm.; National Heritage Centre for Horseracing & Sporting Art

[notpulpcovers]

1939 illustration by W Smithson Broadhead https://flic.kr/p/2nKfjsh

[dead-molchun]

W Smithson Broadhead (1888-1960) Young Woman with Kodak Camera, 1912 (80 x 52,7 cm)

[mermaidenmystic]

“Sea-Pie” magazine cover ~ July, 1918 ~ W. Smithson Broadhead (British commercial illustrator including railroad posters, 1888-1960) 

[li-an]

W. Smithson Broadhead, ce n’est pas que du cheval

New Post has been published on https://www.li-an.fr/zolies-images/w-smithson-broadhead/

W. Smithson Broadhead, ce n’est pas que du cheval

Un illus­tra­teur britan­nique peu connu malgré un talent remarquable

[theroyalhistory]

Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (Duchess of York, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother) and the Duke of York (King George VI) painted by W. Smithson Broadhead, 1923

[ggaines1]

Just Pinned to England/UK Darlene's Vintage Postcards: Buck Deer Scotland for Holidays W Smithson Broadhead Tindale UK http://bit.ly/2JzAO1T

[vintage-every-day]

Lytham St. Annes Broadhead, W. Smithson for the LMS railway and heavily influenced by the LNER posters.

[monkeyssalad-blog]

1923 illustration by W. Smithson Broadhead by totallymystified Via Flickr: For the story Why They Married by Mrs Belloc Lowndes. From The Sphere magazine.

[random-brushstrokes]

W. Smithson Broadhead (British, 1888–1960) - Couple walking in a snow flurry