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Obituary: Charles W. Stewart
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FEW LEADING book illustrators can once have danced in the corps de
ballet at Covent Garden, but Charles W. Stewart was proud to have
done so. Not long after he became a student at Byam Shaw School of
Drawing and Painting, in 1932, the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo came
to London and Stewart fell under its spell.
In 1934-35, he began to attend evening ballet classes and take
private lessons. In 1936, he said, "by a freak of fortune I was
engaged as a member of the corps de ballet for B...
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