James Boswell (1906-1971)

James Boswell was described by William Feaver in 1978 as “one of the finest English graphic artists of this century”. A committed Marxist, he graduated from the Royal College of Art in the early 1930s becoming a founding member of the Artist’s International Association, as well as working as a brilliant satirist in the manner of George Grosz and an early voice against the spectre of fascism. After the War, during which he executed some of his most extraordinary work depicting life with the desert army, he served as art editor of Lilliput and editor of the Sainsbury’s house magazine. For a period in the 1950s Boswell lived in Brighton. Public galleries who hold his work include the Tate Gallery and the British Museum.