Frank Newbould

Frank Newbould studied at Camberwell College of Arts. The recorded working language is English. Work by Frank Newbould is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, Yale Center for British Art, Vanderbilt Museum of Art and National Railway Museum.

• Name — Frank Newbould • Birth Name — Frank Parkinson Newbould • Born — 24 September 1887 • Birthplace — Bradford, Yorkshire, England • Died — 24 December 1951 • Place of death — London, England • Field — Graphic design • Training — Bradford College of Art Camberwell School of Art • Illustration — The Silver Jubilee, LNER poster, 1935

He was born in Bradford, to John Newbould (1856–1944), chemist, from Pateley Bridge, and Sara Ellen, née Robinson (1856–1941), also from Bradford. He was their only child. He was educated at Bradford College of Art and Camberwell School of Art.

• Illustration — Example of Newbould's wartime work He worked mostly in London from the interwar period specialising in travel posters. His clients included the Empire Marketing Board; London Transport and its predecessors; the London & North Eastern, Great Western and London, Midland and Scottish Railways, and the Orient and Cunard Lines. In 1942 he joined the War Office as assistant to Abram Games, where he produced eleven posters, including a series Your Britain, Fight for it Now. His work was characterised by bold shapes and colours.

In 1919, Newbould married Marion Jane Thomson. He died in London on 24 December 1951.

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