Sidney Sime

Sidney Sime was born in poverty in Manchester,England in 1867.Initially,his parents sent him down the mines to work as a "scoop pusher".From this unpromising start he progressed to the Liverpool School of Art and from yhence to London,where he quickly made a name for himself as a magazine illustrator.His first series of drawnings for Pick-Up magazine was collectively titled 'The Shades',and consisted of humorous skitches of life in the next world.This mixture of the bizarre was to be typical of Sime's autput.

London at the turn of the century was esperiencing the golden age of the popular magazine,and many illustrators were hausehold names.The elite of this small band ,however,were those who made the breakthroug into book illustration -men like Rackham and dulec.Sime was to have one outstanding with Lord Dunsany.
Dunsany,an eccentric Irish peer,wrote fantasy in a vein entirely his own.Sime, another eccentric,was the ideal illustrator for these strange,yet often beautiful stories.In the opinion of many,he never surpassed this work.Towaeds the end of his life he became increasingly reclusive,and the man who had once loved the night life and theatress of 'nineties London spent most of his time in his cottage in Worplesden,Surrey.He died in 1941.
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