Unused Tuck Oilette postcard No 4007 - After an original painting by C E Flower
Charles Edwin Flower (1871-1951) was one of
Tuck’s most prolific artists and contributed around 300 paintings over a long
career. He travelled widely, with the scenes he captured covering the USA,
Canada, Germany and Argentina as well as the breadth of the UK. The ubiquity of
Tuck’s postcards must have made Flower’s work some of the most recognised of the
early 20th century. Despite this, relatively little is known of him beyond
that, prior to working for Tuck, he was employed as an artist by the pioneering
archaeologist Augustus Pitt Rivers to illustrate a catalogue of the vast number
of finds from excavations on Pitt Rivers’ Wiltshire estate.