Fishermen Of The Cape, illustrations by Bruce Frank, text by Frank Robb

Fishermen Of The Cape, illustrations by Bruce Frank, text by Frank Robb

Hardcover

ISBN 0582641513

Publisher: Longman Penguin Southern Africa 1975

Condition: Good. The original boards with a DJ is shelf rubbed and edge worn. This book was read and enjoyed but is still overall good. Tanning/Browning of pages. The book has no inscriptions and the binding is excellent. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.

William Bruce Frank born in Cape Town in February 1907 trained as a lithographic process artist. He worked as a commercial artist, first in various advertising agencies and then on a freelance basis and was an assistant instructor in commercial art at the Michaelis School of Fine Art. After World War 2 he discontinued commercial work and began to concentrate on landscape and portrait painting. He later became a lecturer in art at the Cape Technical College.

Frank Robb was born and brought up within the precincts of Cape Town Docks and took to the sea as soon as he was able to cast off the painter of any fisherman's dinghy found unattended. After that came tin canoes, sailing dinghies in and off-shore cruisers and racers , a way of life pursued while earning a living ashore.