SQUARE RING 1953 Jack Warner, Robert Beatty, Maxwell Reed UK EALING BROCHURE

Original British 9 1/2 inch x 7 inch 16 page well illustrated brochure for the 1953 Basil Dearden Ealing Studios Boxing Drama THE SQUARE RING starring Jack Warner, Robert Beatty, Maxwell Reed, Bill Owen, Joan Collins, Kay Kendall and Sidney James.

The brochure was designed by James Boswell and is in very good condition. Born in Westport, New Zealand in 1906, Boswell was educated at the Elam School of Art in Auckland before moving to England in 1925 to study at the Royal College of Art. Although primarily a painter he temporarily gave this up in 1932 to work in graphics. At this time he joined the Communist Party and in 1933 founded the Artists International association, promoting left-wing and anti-militarist art. He attended James Fitton’s (Kind Hearts and Coronets) evening classes in lithography at the Central School and after the war became art director for Shell and art editor for the magazine Lilliput from 1947 to 1950. He is recognized as one of the outstanding draughtsmen of the 1930s and 1940s.