Pen & ink design (c.1920) which was used in the article Alan Odle: Master of the Grotesque published in the Studio in January 1928. Odle sometimes drew several drawings on the same sheet, When these have been cut up later by persons unknown, the resultant paper is often oddly shaped.
Alan’s grave before and after I had it renovated
The dustwrapper by Alan for Dorothy’s The Trap (1925), with hand lettering. I stated in my book that Dorothy had offered Duckworth the possibility of an Odle dustwrapper for Dawn’s Left Hand and they had replied ‘that it is not now usual to add decorative jackets to the superior, intellectual type of novel’. At the time I did not know of the existence of The Trap dustwrapper, and had assumed all her dustwrappers were typographical, At the present time I can only find one other dustwrapper, on Interim, which was indeed typographical, so Duckworth were reverting to typographical dustwrappers after publishing pictorial dustwrappers on The Trap and in 1926 on Oberland. The dustwrapper on the latter is by Allinson (presumably Adrian Allinson, the couple’s friend). This is also has hand lettering, which might be by Odle too.
Rather wonderful watercolour on silk that appeared in an auction some years ago. Unfortunately there was no image of the complete item.
An early drawing c.1910 where he uses Allan and his middle initial in the signature. Sorry for the poor quality of the image but I do not have the original.