tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19678732.post1589207071349589406..comments2023-07-31T10:39:53.182-05:00Comments on The Blog of the American Chesterton Society: Chesterton's ArtNancy C. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169395014931291729noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19678732.post-70231355782986305262008-05-02T10:31:00.000-05:002008-05-02T10:31:00.000-05:00I've often wondered why Chesterton didn't illustra...I've often wondered why Chesterton didn't illustrate more of his own books. He drew illustrations for 'The Club of Queer Trades' and I think one or two of his early books of poetry. To the best of my knowledge, that was it. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have Chesterton's own illustrations for 'The Man Who Was Thursday' or the Father Brown stories?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19678732.post-11241574445733136742008-04-30T12:30:00.000-05:002008-04-30T12:30:00.000-05:00However, if you can't get to England, there are ot...However, if you can't get to England, there are other options.<BR/><BR/>Alzina Stone Dale's <I>The Art of G.K. Chesterton</I> is a good place to start as a general introduction, both for images and for ideas. If you just want to look at pretty pictures (and some delightful prose), try to find a copy of GK's <I>The Coloured Lands</I>, which was compiled by Dorothy Collins after his death, if I recall correctly, and features lots of lush and colourful art.<BR/><BR/>You could also go find a copy of one of Belloc's novels and leaf through it until you find the pictures; odds are they'll be Gilbert's.<BR/><BR/>If you're willing to travel, the University of St. Michael's College in Toronto has a great Chesterton collection, in honour of his visit there those many years ago (where he first met Etienne Gilson, who would later prasie <I>St. Thomas Aquinas</I> so highly), including some sketchbooks and the like. It's a nice place to go even apart from their Chesterton stuff, really. Their site is <A HREF="http://www.utoronto.ca/stmikes/library/special_collections/chesterton.html" REL="nofollow">here</A>. It seems as though the selection of image samples they had online last time I went there is a broken link, now, but they'll probably fix it soon enough. Anyway, there's a nice enough sample on the main page next to the paragraph about "Original Sketches".<BR/><BR/>That should be a start, anyway.Nick Milnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15677481833245634421noreply@blogger.com