Osbert Lancaster
✓ Source-basedfallingBritish cartoonist, theatre designer and art critic (1908-1986)
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Sir Osbert Lancaster was an English cartoonist, architectural historian, stage designer and author. He was known for his cartoons in the British press, and for his lifelong work to inform the general public about good buildings and architectural heritage.
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Lancaster in the 1950s
Lancaster's birthplace, Elgin Crescent, with blue plaque commemorating him
Lincoln College, Oxford
Slade School of Fine Art, London, where Lancaster studied from 1931 to 1933
John Betjeman, Lancaster's lifelong friend and fellow campaigner
Pantanassa Monastery, Mystras about which Lancaster wrote in Sailing to Byzantium (1969)
Daily Express building in Fleet Street
Tate Gallery portico, saved from demolition after campaigning by Lancaster and othersAwards 3
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About this person
Country
United KingdomCategory
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1908 to 1986 · aged 77
Written about in
5 languages
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