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Gilroy Was Good For Guinness How about a nice off-speed pitch? Today’s review touches only tangentially on beer. Almost everyone, beer fan or no, is familiar with the iconic ads from the twenty years on either side of midcentury: My Goodness My Guinness, Guinness For Strength, and Lovely Day For a Guinness. The main illustrator behind those ads was John Gilroy, an English artist whose Guinness ads started appearing around 1930. The book’s central focus are those illustrations, though it does touch on his full career, which included fine art as well as commercial art. Although he was never able to fully ascend to the highest echelons of the fine art world, he did do some very accomplished portraiture work, capturing the vitality and spirit of his subjects. But the book only acknowledges this element of his career; Hughes is much more interested in the Guinness material. What interested me most was not the familiar art (though flippin … |
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