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Michael Pirie – Harry Rountree (1878–1950): an Introduction to a Popular and Prolific Animal Illustrator from New Zealand
1st May 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Michael Pirie has been head gardener at Green Templeton College since 1980 and ran a course on Oxford College gardens for many years at OUDCE. He now takes an interest in book illustration and commercial art from the first half of the 20th century. He has contributed numerous articles about Harry Rountree for the Imaginative Book Illustration Society (I.B.I.S.) and has written the entry for the artist in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.