Clement Dane Studio

This Studio was a London-based commercial art studio active in Britain between the 1920's and the 1950's. Artists and designers represented by them included Jack Betts, his wife Constance Castle, A. R. Thomson and Bernard Leslie Kearley who was the director and secretary of the Studio. From the 1940's they specialised in printing large lithographic posters and by 1974 it had become part of the Lion International Group.

In their heyday they produced work for Odhams Press, Canadian Pacific Railway, the Empire Marketing Board, National Westminster Bank, the Savoy Hotel, London Underground, Mac Fishers, the Royal Mail Line, London Underground, Marshall & Snellgrove, Southern Railway, British Petroleum, Harvey Nichols, Crosse & Blackwell, Legal & General Assurance Company, Selfridge’s and the Legal & General Assurance Soc. Ltd. The address of the Studio in 1937 was 190, Strand, London WC1. The print section of the Victoria & Albert Museum holds examples of posters attributed to them.

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