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The two most famous dog artists of the early 20th century were Cecil Aldin (1870-1935) and Lucy Dawson, Aldin did the bulk of his work from 1890's-1920's, while Dawson came to fame around the early 1930s.
The style of the two artists is very similiar both were animal portrait painters who specialised in dogs.
Their work was published in various formats, from book plates through to large lithographs the size of modern day posters. A few of Aldin's early works were published as chromolithographs, but his later works and those of Dawson were printed in offset lithography or similiar.
The quality is normally quite high and they tend to be amoung the most interesting dog prints of their era. Both painted conventional style portraits like the Cairn Terrier shown on this page, Aldin was also famous for a more graphical and humourous style such as the puppy with the red ribbon collar shown here.
We always try to have a wide selection of prints from these artists amoungst our stock, as they have consistently been the 'most wanted' artists over the last 15 years or so.
They have been becoming increasingly rare like so many other items over the last few years, however they are still available at reasonable prices and hang well on the wall.
There is still a breed problem in that many of today's popular breeds were not painted by either artist, which is a great shame, although if you like small terriers then you are in luck, as Lucy Dawson had a special passion for them. Cecil Aldin was an old fashioned country gentleman and his favourite dogs which he painted often were various sporting breeds - what we would call gundogs today.
Aldin had a bunch of his own dogs, his favourites being an Irish Wolfhound - of which he painted a superb but very rare series of 16 prints - and his English Bull Terrier 'Cracker' whom he painted numerous times.
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