Michael Bernard Critchlow was born Bernard Critchlow Green on 21 June 1904 in Wolverhampton. He studied at Wolverhampton School of Art under Robert Jackson Emerson, before becoming a freelance illustrator in the 1930s. After the Second World War, he was commissioned to design a number of posters for the Ministry of Information, and produced illustrations for publications including The Strand, Britannia and Eve, John Bull and Woman’s Own. In 1948, he was selected to represent Great Britain in painting at the Summer Olympics in London. The gold medal was won by Alfred Reginald Thomson (see page X). Throughout his career, he was known as ‘Jerry’ Critchlow, and in addition to his work as an illustrator, produced oils that were exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, New English Art Club and Royal Institute of Oil Painters.
Michael Bernard Critchlow lived much of his life in London, but also spent periods living in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, and Brixham, Devon. He developed Parkinson’s later in life, and died in Hammersmith on 29 September 1972. He was survived by his wife Rosalind (neé Weston Mann), whom he had married on 29 September 1930, and their son Keith (born 1933), who would become a successful artist, professor of architecture and leading expert in sacred geometry.
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