Utter the word ‘Skegness’ and many people will find it hard to resist interjecting, ‘is SO bracing’. It’s one of the most well-known slogans from one of the most famous travel posters of all time. In ...

John Hassall: The Life and Art of the Poster King by Lucinda Gosling (Unicorn Publishing Group, £30) is out now. For free UK delivery, ...

YOU will know John Hassall’s work. The book illustrator, painter and poster artist is the man behind the famous poster from of 1908 of a fisherman skipping down the beach above the legend ...

John Hassall created the famous poster in 1908 as part of a campaign by Great Northern Railway. An exhibition has opened featuring the work of the artist who created the famous Jolly Fisherman poster.

The cartoon in question satirised the great John Hassall’s famous “Skegness Is SO Bracing” poster. Hassall, to me, was the UK’s Toulouse-Lautrec. The two were almost exact contemporaries, from the ...

Hassall was among the first artists to contribute to The Tatler – as it was called – when it was relaunched in 1901 and within weeks he was creating a regular comic series, ‘The Humour of Life’. At ...

HE WAS the poster boy of posters, the Banksy of his day, an outrageously talented artist whose works adorned thousands of streets and were loved by the public for their stylish simplicity and ...