THE IRVINITES POSTER
This is currently being used as a means by which to promote Clyde Imagineering's 6 year long biographical project.
ROBERT B MANTELL POSTER
This is the 2nd poster designed on this subject. Unlike the previous design, which was in the style of the era of this actor, the present design has been created in the 'house style' of the Time Town series. For more information on R B Mantell: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_B._Mantell
and:
www.imdb.com/name/nm0544071/bio
Andrew Allan Poster
This lithographic artist was born in Irvine's Halfway (now called Montgomery Street), famously also the thoroughfare on which another famous son, poet, journalist and social reformer, James Montgomery, also saw the first light of day. Allan trained at The Glasgow School of Art from 1882 until 1896. He is mainly remembered for his landscape studies, which work is highly regarded, The painting in the poster is called 'Thistledown' and is part of the Glasgow Museums Collection.
AGNES MILLER PARKER POSTER
Agnes Miller Parker was a prolific and talented illustrator and artist. Trained at The Glasgow School of Art and married to fellow student and artist William McCance; her principal medium was woodcut. She mastered this notoriously difficult method and produced hundreds of superb drawings, many of which are to be found in books such as those by Thomas Hardy and H.E. Bates. For more information:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Miller_Parker
Princes Street Edinburgh
Drawn by Irvine-born artist, Andrew Allan; this postcard was published by Millar and Lang Limited, Art Publishers of Glasgow.
MONRO S ORR POSTER
Munro Scott Orr, born in Irvine's High Street in October of 1874, studied at The Glasgow School of Art between 1894 and 1900 (he would have witnessed the construction of the Mackintosh building and would have been among its first occupants). In the first half of the 20th Century, Orr produced a prodigious and varied range of book illustrations: from children's books, such as The Arabian Nights, Grim Fairy Tales and Treasure Islands; to the works of Robert Burns; and the works of Charlotte and Emily Bronte (Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, respectively).