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Alan Odle

British illustrator (1888-1948) · United Kingdom · On the map · Artists · Died at 60

Alan Elsden Odle (1888-1948) was an English illustrator, husband of the English novelist Dorothy Richardson, whom he married in 1917.. His style was a precursor of surrealism. He illustrated an English edition of Voltaire's Candide, Mark Twain's 1601: A Tudor Fireside Conversation, and The Mimiambs of Herondas.

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He also designed the dust jacket for James Hanley's Ebb and Flow, other Hanley novels for Lane, and Dorothy Richardson's Backwater (1916). He contributed to a number of periodicals such as The Gypsy, The Golden Hind (1922-25), the US Vanity Fair, The Studio, and the UK Argosy.

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United Kingdom
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Artists
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Artist
Status
Deceased
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Lived 1888 to 1948 · aged 60