Artist Info
Laurence Scarfe
Laurence Scarfe (1914-1993)
Scarfe taught at the Central School of Art from 1945 to 1970, later at Brighton Polytechnic, lecturing on the history of illustration and graphic design. His work is represented in significant collections including the Tate Gallery, the Imperial War Museum, the Government Art Collection and the Victoria & Albert Museum.
education
Shipley School of Art
Royal College of Art (1933-37)
Murals
British Pavilion at the Paris 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne
Books & Printing section at the Britain Can Make It Exhibition (1946)
British Industries Fair (1948)
Dome of Discovery and the Regatta Restaurant at the Festival of Britain’s South Bank site (1951)
P & O’s liners Orcades and Oriana in the 1950s
author and illustrator, including:
Alphabets: an Introductory Treatise (1954)
Illustration work includes:
Radio Times
The Listener
Far and Wide
The Saturday Book (1941-75)
Leonard Russell’s Primary Pie Pocket Miscellany, (1943)
Alec Waugh’s These I Would Choose: A Personal Anthology with Drawings (1948)
A Record of Shell’s Contribution to Aviation in the Second World War (1949)
The International Wine and Food Society’s Guide to the Wines of Burgundy (1968)
Poster and advertising design, including:
the Curwen Press, the Arts Council,
the BBC
the GPO
ICI
the Central Office of Information
London Transport (1939-69)
Ceramics, including:
the Dolphin pattern (1965) for Carter’s Tiles.
Scarfe was a member of the Society of Mural Painters and a Fellow of the Society of Industrial Artist and Designers, and his papers from 1935 to 1983 are lodged in the V&A’s Archive of Art & Design.
