Posted by Mario (Site Owner) at 30/11/03 11:19:
Some of the prints were produced as "Turner Wall Accessory" by an US company called "Turner Manufacturing Co.", Chicago and has closed down. It would be great if anyone who lives in Chicago could find out more about this company.
In the UK there were Tina prints "Framed by Haigh & Sons, Southall, Middlesex".
There are also prints labeled "Boots Picture Framing Department".
Posted by Mario (Site Owner) at 30/11/03 11:47:
It seems to be quite common for mass-market artists to work under several different names. In this biography of August Holland (http://www.augustholland.com/bio.htm), who also painted for Turner Manufacturing, Chicago it reads: "To keep the buyers from thinking they had only one artist August had many pseudonyms from Boise Smith for western art to Sasha Khomoran for Indian art."
Posted by Mario (Site Owner) at 30/11/03 11:51:
Joost Kraanen, a Dutch filmmaker who first was interested in doing a documentary, about 1989 found the following traces:
His line of investigation went as follows (c. 1990): he traced the owner of the firm GARANT IMPORT n.v. in Noord-Scharwoude who placed advertisements in DE LACH magazine c. 1969.
The owner, P. Elzenga, lived in Maastricht. He told Joost that he acquired the paintings from a publisher in Fürth by the name of May Verlag. Joost inquired with the German Chamber of Commerce and learned that May Verlag was no longer in Furth (as of 1990) but in Düsseldorf.
Joost did not follow this lead further.
Looks like someone has to pick up from there.
Posted by Mario (Site Owner) at 30/11/03 21:00:
Steven has sent me this info that he found on the back of a LADENCELLA print:
EF&A ROBINSON LTD c 64/3
LADENCELLA
PRINTED IN ENGLAND
Is anybody in the UK able to trace this EF&A ROBINSON LTD?
Posted by Mario (Site Owner) at 01/03/04 13:15:
Paul Gilby has contributed the following information:
The Company EF & A Robinson Ltd are not listed at Companies House, the UK register of businesses.
However, there is an E Robinson Ltd, a Furniture and Household Goods retailer in Kent, established 1968.
It could be them who put a label on the back of the painting.
Full address
E ROBINSON (CANTERBURY) LIMITED
12-16 VICTORIA ROAD
DEAL
KENT CT14 7BN
Posted by Mario (Site Owner) at 01/06/04 11:02:
In an eBay offer of "Zena" the mentioned printer is "Patrician Art Reproductions"
Posted by Mario (Site Owner) at 22/08/04 23:01:
The "Zena" label says "Patrician Art Products Ltd., Alkham Valley, Kent, England, Exclusive Production".
That's the second manufacturer in Kent. Very interesting.
Posted by Mario (Site Owner) at 03/09/04 12:23:
The seller of this Tina on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6116822379 mentions a new name on the back of his print:
W.FRANK GADSBY, LONDON
As search on google returned this name as being a framer:
http://www.fineart.co.uk/qualifs/gcflist.htm
David Brazier, W. Frank Gadsby, 7 Braunstone Gate, Leicester LE3 5LH Tel: 0116 2550 558
Posted by natasha (Member) at 05/09/04 03:11:
Düsseldorf?????? What about H. Kraus, H. Walter, Jarmyn? Those are signatures on some other classic Gypsy Lady paintings, such as the Bandana'd Sintezza and the ultra sexy Big Hair Gypsy with her hand behind her head. Would be glad to provide photo's. What has Tina got that they haven't got? How do I know they were painted in Düsseldorf and I'm now talking about the late seventies early eighties. I was once in an Amsterdam coffeeshop where there was a famous Jarmyn on the wall, and a Turkish migrant worker told me that he and twenty other sweatshop collegues used to paint them. They came in preprinted and they would cover the preprint with acrylic paint, one would do a few strokes of locks, one the eyes, one the earrings etc. He demonstraated the strokes exactly on the painting, he could make all the movements to it in full automata. They were not supposed to divulge to people what it was exactly that they did at the time. The real collectors items should be the ones where apparently they somtimes substituted the standard 'artists name' like Walter, for 'names' that meant rude things in Turkish. So if you've ever seen a complete Turkish family crack up over the signature on a painting in a hotellobby, that's why. Anyway, he believes that later the whole operation in Dusseldorf shifted to a lowwage country, probably Turkey.
Posted by Mario (Site Owner) at 20/10/04 16:01:
This offer on eBay for "Nymph" has some infos on another printing company:
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3755962912
It mentions an "original purchase booklet" with the following information:
Fairmont Studios in Adelaide, artist-Lynch title-Nymph code-321, inspected and wrapped on 6/4/76
Posted by Mario (Site Owner) at 21/12/04 23:27:
I mentioned it in another thread, but for completeness I write it again in this one:
JH Lynch seems to have sold the copyright to many of his paintings to Robinsons of Bristol which seems to be former ES. & A. Robinson Ltd. ( http://www.bristolhistory.info/id58.html ). I guess these are the same same as above mentioned EF & A Robinson.
Posted by jeanlesauvage (Member) at 14/01/05 18:13:
I have a Tina-print with a stamp on the frame back-side:
"Manufactured by: Patrician Art Products Ltd. Church Road Ramsgate TELEPHONE: Thanet 51195"
and another stamp:
"VINYL SPRAYED DO NOT USE DETERGENT"
Posted by GERRI (Member) at 28/05/07 00:29:
I HAVE A COPY OF THE ALCHYMIST BY ADRIAEN VAN OSTADEMY FATHER HAD IT FROM MAYBE THE 1940s, the label on the back has a codep370 and says printed and published by HAIGH & SONS LTD SOUTHALL, MIDDLESEX, do you know when it might have been printed and what its worth may be?, Thanks
Gerri