David Bownes and Oliver Green
Ashgate
Hardback
240
2008
Phil May was one of the two outstanding British black and white artists ? the other was Aubrey Beardsley. The work of both artists displays a masterly use of line to create character, but rather than focusing on subjects drawn from polite English society, May?»s world is that of ordinary people at the public house, the club, the race-course, the theatre and the East End.