St Albans		Oilette Post Cards St Albans
	Post Card Paintings by Sid Gardner (Raphel Tuck & Sons)

		Raphael Tuck & Sons "Oilette" "St Albans" Series No 7752   Earliest known posting date: March 1908

Sidney Valentine Gardner (1869-1957) was a Nottingham based artist, one of a number from that city who was attracted to the North Yorkshire village of Staithes where he exhibited with the Staithes Group of artists.  He was elected a member of the Staithes Art Club in 1903 and of the Nottingham Society of Artists in 1908 and exhibited with the Society 73 times. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of British Artists. As far as I can gather few of his paintings were made into postcards and this set may be the only ones of Hertfordshire.