Ebook: Joseph Pike: the Happy Catholic Artist

First biography of the remarkable and hugely admiredartist, Joseph Pike.

Author aided by artist's family including his grandson,Hugh Salmon, (founder of www.Lovereading.co.uk), giving access to personaldetails and illustrations.

Joseph Pike has been described as an artist of unusual merit , who recorded with outstanding ability the architecture of all periods which exists in contemporary Britain . A master of the art of pencil drawing, he produced evocative sketches of old churches, and colleges, monasteries and modern offices, picturesque street scenes in historic towns such as Rugby and Chester, as well as a great number of London landmarks. His illustrations were commissioned by authors, architects and publishers, reproduced in books and on postcards, sold as prints and exhibited on the walls of the Royal Academy. When he died in 1956, the Catholic Herald referred to him as a distinguished artist, though not...