He features in only a handful of newspaper items between 1931 and 1939, all in mentions of his illustrations (and occasional writing) in advertisements for magazines including The Artist and The Bystander. According to the latter’s 1940 profile, he was wholly dedicated to commercial practice and, though highly regarded by artist contemporaries, proud that he had ‘never had an exhibition or sent anything to the R.A.’ He reportedly considered his work not good enough and that devoting time to the attempt would have diminished his commercial income. By that point he was married, with three children, though further details are lacking, other than that his family had evacuated from London where he continued to work in a large studio, doing a great deal of wartime poster work for the Ministry of Information. Much of it is expressly credited to him, although a famous ‘careless talk’ poster, ‘Keep mum / she's not so dumb' (of which the National Archives holds the artwork) is only attributed on style, including of its typically lissom female central figure. Between 1928 and 1947–1948 he made several steadily longer visits to New York, probably to work. The last was for nearly a year going out first-class but returning more economically. He may have been thinking of settling in America but if so decided against it. His address at departure was 143 Old Church Street, Chelsea, and the 1940 Bystander piece suggests he was also a member of the Chelsea Arts Club. He returned to a flat in Arundel Street, WC2, possibly where his family was living.

In the post-war period he was practically invisible until 1957, when the first of several dramatic views of the Abbey Steel Works appeared as a press advertisement (Birmingham Daily Post, 5th April) for the Steel Company of Wales Ltd. Another is illustrated the Abbey calendar for 1963. The originals for both, and five others related, are now in the National Museum of Wales. The only other public appearance yet found is his contribution of pictures in 1959 – one expressly painted and others lent – for the set of an amateur theatre production by the Steyning County Players in Sussex in 1959 (West Sussex County Times, 20th November). The report calls him a ‘local artist’ at Steyning, suggesting he then lived in the area, but his death was registered at Hillingdon, west London, in the last quarter of 1975. Lack of a probate or administration notice suggests there was then little left of his high pre-war earnings.

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