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Between 1952 and 1961 Townend taught graphic design, lithography and printmaking at the Ruskin, where Enid Marx is also listed as a teacher for the 1952–53 academic year. During the 1950s and 1960s, he taught at the New
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These three books were published lithographically at the
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in 1940 for the final year of his diploma, living at 70 Walton Street and remaining in the city for the next 50 years. Among his Slade contemporaries were landscape painter
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to teach lithography composition, design and wood-engraving. He tutored, among others, author and illustrator
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a love story about a hardworking lonely steam roller who falls for
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was released; a group of ducks go on a series of adventures only to realise there is no place like home.
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