Original Art Deco Pen & Ink Drawing by Alfred E Kerr (The Ulster Beardsley) 1935

Original Pen & Ink Drawing by Alfred E Kerr (1901 - 1980)
dated 1935

In original frame. (used, good condition. Some staining/discolour to mountboard)

Frame size: 54 x 41cm approx
Drawing size: 35 x 25cm approx.

Alfred Edward Laws Kerr was born on 27 September 1901 in South Stoneham, Hampshire, son of Alfred Edward T. E. Kerr, an iron turner from Belfast, and Isabella, née Laws, from Durham, who married in South Stoneham in late 1899. In the 1911 census the family was living at 1 Cliff Road, Itchen, South Stoneham, Hampshire.

He seems to have been educated at Chelsea School of Art. By the mid-1930s he was illustrating books for a Belfast publisher, The Quota Press, and became known as "the Ulster Beardsley". He worked for a variety of British and Irish publishers through the 1940s.

He moved to the Isle of Wight in 1959 and established the Seaview School of Painting. He died on 11 January 1980, aged 79, and is buried in Binstead Cemetery.

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