| Administrative History | James Boswell studied at the Elam School of Art in 1924 and the Royal College of Art from 1925 to 1929. He exhibited with the London Group, 1927-1932, a period when he joined the Communist Party. He then concentrated on graphic work, producing lithographs with James Fitton between 1933 and 1939. Boswell became a founder member of the Artists' International Association, Art Editor of 'Left Review', and Art Director for the Shell Petroleum Company, 1930s-40s: serving in the Royal Army Medical Corp during the war years. He began to paint again after the war and started to exhibit his work again, but he also continued with his literary activities as Art Editor of 'Lilliput', 1947-1950 later joining the editor of this periodical, Richard Bennett, at 'The Sunday Telegraph' to illustrate one or two readers' letters each week from the mid-1960s until 1971. He combined this periodic commercial work with his longstanding role as editor of the in-house journal for Sainsbury's. |