James Boswell

These pages contain a number of personal reminiscences of the Artist

Paul Hogarth

"He was a big, much-beloved figure, heroic yet vulnerable, perhaps best remembered for his satirical drawings contributed to Left Review and other periodicals of the Thirties and Forties."… read James Boswell: Eyewitness of the Thirties here

Montagu Slater

"1929, year of the Wall Street crash, marks in many ways the beginning of this chapter of wars. I remember that it was this year I met a youth with a round boyish face walking through the Regent's Park Road with a large wooden rocking chair which he planted in mid-pavement when we paused to chat."… read Montagu Slater's Private Boswell here

David Caplan

"We soon became fast friends; he had a strong, attractive personality, broad in build with fair, almost white hair, twinkling eyes and, surprisingly, a snub nose. Perhaps his major attraction was his deep, musical voice."… read David Caplan's Memoire here

James Friell

"The James Boswell I met in the mid-thirties was a young man of such gusto and vehemence and he was unmistakably in the struggle. In his work and in his conversation he had an ironic sense of humour… …His mouth had a permanent curve to the lips as though perpetually amused at the wonderful and woeful people and incidents of that decade." James Friell on James Boswell

Richard Cork

"Boswell's contributions, a hard-hitting series of polemical attacks on bloated capitalists, repressive conservatives, Fascists and exploiters of the working man, certainly coincided with Slater's aim. Using a vivid style situated halfway between the Expressionism of George Grosz and the cartoon journalism of David Low, he placed his art firmly at the service of political rebellion" Richard Cork on Boswell's Satirical Art

Ruth Boswell

"As I was to discover, the man was as powerful as his work, not in an overbearing way but in the wonderful life force which touched everyone and everything. Being with him was not only stimulating but fun. He was attractive, funny, original and with an astonishing fund of knowledge." Ruth Boswell remembers James Boswell