James Lloyd Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

British, 1904-1974

Lloyd was born in Alsager, Cheshire. He had worked on his father's farm until the age of 19, when he too joined the police force. Lloyd had a variety of jobs before the war until he was accepted for the famous and exclusive British Army regiment of the Coldstream Guards. He served with distinction in his regiment overseas during the war. On demobilisation he married Nancy, she was a teenager and he in his forties, he returned to the land and took a job as - a wagonner- in Shropshire. Although he had done some paintings as a young man, it was not until he was forty, that he began to paint in earnest. He and his family moved to Skirpenbeck, East Riding of Yorkshire in 1950. He took on the job as a cowman and painted by night at the kitchen table. Lloyd began to produce so many paintings - laboriously constructed, dot-by-dot, in their naîve pointillism - that his wife Nancy, who was his severest critic, decided it was time that Jim's work was seen by a wider public than his family. Without telling Jim, she wrote to Sir Herbert Read, who paid the artist a visit and left with a couple of new purchases. Read also borrowed some to send to show to a group of London galleries. In 1958, at the age of fifty-three, James held his first one-man show at Arthur Jeffress Gallery. All but two of the 32 paintings were quickly sold. The rapidly expanding Lloyd family (eight children, and one who died young) moved to a council house further into the village and Jim took a job with the Derwent Plastics Company at Stamford Bridge, the money was better and the hours easier, he did shift work so he could paint by day and work by night. He devoted all his spare time (except for that spent at the pub) to painting. He never painted in a studio; he would usually just paint at the kitchen table. In 1961 he was commissioned by the York City Art Gallery under the Evelyn Award Scheme to paint the view of Cliffords Tower, York for the gallery's collection - his first work in a public collection. L.S. Lowry also produced a painting of Cliffords Tower. At the closure of Arthur Jeffress Gallery, James Lloyd was taken on by the Portal Gallery, where his paintings still remain. In 1963 Eric Lister of the Portal Gallery introduced James to film director Ken Russell. The result was that the BBC Monitor unit made a television documentary film about his life and work, 'The dotty world of James Lloyd'. Two years later Lloyd was chosen to play, the part of Henri Rousseau in Ken Russell's 'Monitor' film on the great French naîve painter. The photographer, David Bailey, bought several paintings by Lloyd and became a very good friend. When his book 'Goodbye Baby and Amen', an album of Bailey's portraits of celebrities of the 60's was published, Jim featured prominently.

Artist: James Lloyd

Tree and Courtyard - 20th Century Painting with Tree and Buildings

By James Lloyd

Located in Kingsclere, GB

Lloyd was born in Alsager, Cheshire, the son of a policeman who had taken up farming. He had worked on his father's farm until the age of 19, when he too joined the police force. Llo...

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20th Century James Lloyd Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Pen, Pencil

James Lloyd
Tree and Courtyard - 20th Century Painting with Tree and Buildings

$4,394

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1910s Art Deco James Lloyd Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil

Erté
1910's Art Deco Erte Gouache Painting Original Hand Signed Rare French Costume, 1919

$6,400 Sale Price

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H 20 in W 18 in

'International Bar', French School

Located in London, GB

'International Bar, pencil, ink and gouache on card stock by an unnamed artist of the French School (20th Century). This appears to be a fantastical port visit of the artist's imagination. It is very lively in colour and in subject. The artwork was discovered in Paris along with several others of the same character, most likely by the same person. It depicts the entryway of a brightly lit Asian bar...

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20th Century James Lloyd Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Gouache, Pencil

'International Bar', French School, 20th Century

$473 Sale Price

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H 15.75 in W 17.72 in

Even More Friends of Jason, including Dzama, from Estate of Jason Polan, Signed

By Marcel Dzama

Located in New York, NY

Marcel Dzama Even More Friends of Jason, including Dzama, from the Estate of Jason Polan, double sided work with self portrait on the back, 2019 Mixed media collage with ink, waterco...

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1990s Pop Art James Lloyd Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Graphite

Marcel Dzama
Even More Friends of Jason, including Dzama, from Estate of Jason Polan, Signed, 2019

$15,000

H 8.75 in W 6 in

'Cherry Blossoms in Japan', French School

Located in London, GB

'Cherry Blossoms in Japan', pencil, ink and gouache on card stock, French School (Mid 20th Century). Cherry blossoms (Sakura) symbolise springtime, a time of renewal and the fleeting...

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Mid-20th Century James Lloyd Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Gouache, Pencil

'Cherry Blossoms in Japan', French School, Mid 20th Century

$473 Sale Price

$65,000

H 15.5 in W 11.5 in

Biblical Story illustration Art for Religious Magazine Cover

Located in Miami, FL

Miriam Story Hurford was a prolific and major American female illustrator in the 1930s to the 1950s. Her work was for cover art for women's magazines and home magazines and religious magazines. This work depicts t the wise men being guided by the star of Bethleham to the birth of the Christ child for a Christmas magazine...

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1930s American Realist James Lloyd Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Pencil

Miriam Story Hurford
Biblical Story illustration Art for Religious Magazine Cover, 1930 - 1940

$4,500

H 14.75 in W 12 in D 1 in

Original Sports Illustration Featuring Olympic Athletes In Action And GB Swimmer

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: Original Sports Illustration Featuring Olympic Athletes In Action And GB Swimmer By Tony Herbert (1927-2024) Medium: Felt Pen on board, unframed Size: 16.25 inches (height) x ...

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20th Century Impressionist James Lloyd Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Felt Pen

Anthony Herbert
Original Sports Illustration Featuring Olympic Athletes In Action And GB Swimmer

$397 Sale Price

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H 16.25 in W 11.5 in

Vielle Femme en Petite Cape

By Jacques Villon

Located in Milwaukee, WI

Signed with stamp, J.V. 7-5/8" x 4-3/4" art 19" x 15-1/4" frame Jacques Villon (French, 1875 - 1963) French painter, printmaker and illustrator. The oldest of three brothers who became major 20th-century artists, including Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel Duchamp, he learnt engraving at the age of 16 from his maternal grandfather, Emile-Frédéric Nicolle (1830-94), a ship-broker who was also a much appreciated amateur artist. In January 1894, having completed his studies at the Lycée Corneille in Rouen, he was sent to study at the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris, but within a year he was devoting most of his time to art, already contributing lithographs to Parisian illustrated newspapers such as Assiette au beurre. At this time he chose his pseudonym: Jack (subsequently Jacques) in homage to Alphonse Daudet’s novel Jack (1876) and Villon in appreciation of the 15th-century French poet François Villon...

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Early 1900s Impressionist James Lloyd Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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India Ink, Gouache

Jacques Villon
Vielle Femme en Petite Cape, Circa 1900

$16,800

H 19 in W 15 in