Edward Ardizzone: Artist and Illustrator

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Frances Spalding (1990). 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-106-6.

Ardizzone, Edward (2010). The young Ardizzone: an autobiographical fragment. London: Slightly Foxed. ISBN 978-1-906562-21-2. OCLC 773369823.

Ardizzone’s strength was in capturing moments of human action, often slightly comical ones, but his work matured as he moved away from the heat of the action in the course of the slow and painful campaign by British and American troops to break through the ‘Gothic Line’ established by the Germans across central Italy during 1944-45. Bawden, who had reappeared in this theatre of war, urged him to take the landscape as his subject rather than the sometimes conventionally-posed figure groups. This he did, in a few large paintings, such as A Battery Position in an Orchard of Young Fruit Trees in Snow, 1945 (Imperial War Museum), with a grid of trees stretching out of sight on the white hillside and no sense of spring in the air. Second World War [ edit ] Visit to Ensa Girls in dressing room at the Lucera Opera house, 1943 Normandy June 1944 – Naval Control Post on the Beaches On the Road to Tripoli – a Cup of Tea for the Burial Party (1943) Ardizzone recorded this visit to Bremen in his diary on 26 April 1945: 'To Bremen again with Brian de Grineau' Explore the British Library Search - paul hero of fire ardizzone". explore.bl.uk . Retrieved 31 January 2021. Lill Tschudi Lill Tschudi was born in the village of Schwanden, high in the mountains of eastern Switzerland. The village is known for its textile heritage, and Tschudi would briefly experiment with designs for textiles when she put certain of her images onto pillow and cushion cases. She is now known almost exclusively, however, for her colour linocut work. Tschudi was first introduced to the linocut when, still a school-girl, she saw an exhibition of the colour cuts of animals by Norbertine Bresslern-Roth (1891-1978). Directly after school she noticed an advertisement in The Studio inviting applications for a training programme specialising in linocuts at The Grosvenor School of Art, London. Tschudi attended The Grosvenor School only briefly – from 1929-30 – but throughout her life she would maintain a close working relationship with the Grosvenor School linocut tutor Claude Flight (see Artists). He would encourage and help to further her career, and act as point of liaison in England whilst she worked abroad. From 1931-33 Tschudi lived in Paris and studied with the Cubist artist André Lhote, then with the Futurist Gino Severini at the Academie Ronson, and finally under Fernand Léger at the Academie Moderne. Tschudi’s early work clearly evinces the… Brian Alderson, 'Edward Ardizzone: a preliminary hand-list of his illustrated books, 1929–1970', in The Private Library; 2nd series, 5:1 (1972 Spring), pp. 2–64

During the war Ardizzone was appointed Official War Artist by Sir Kenneth Clark (of ‘Civilization’ fame – an admirer and collector of Ardizzone’s work). He was sent first to France and then to the Middle East. But on his return trips to England he continued to illustrate and soon, with a work he created and which was published just before the War – ‘Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain’ – his work began to attract the following it now enjoys.Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone, CBE RA (16 October 1900 – 8 November 1979), who sometimes signed his work " DIZ", was a British painter, printmaker and war artist, and the author and illustrator of books, many of them for children. [1] For Tim All Alone (Oxford, 1956), which he wrote and illustrated, Ardizzone won the inaugural Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. [2] For the 50th anniversary of the Medal in 2005, the book was named one of the top ten winning titles, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for public election of an all-time favourite. [3] Early life [ edit ] Next we went to the Spread Eagle, just off Oxford Street. Eighty years ago, the pub was famous for its barmaids: they were ‘there to attract men and anxious to please … at the Spread Eagle, two dizzy blondes both sprang forward as soon as you opened the door’. Other books written and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone [ edit ] All other books both written and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone [1] [2] [3] Title He talked about them a lot," says Christianna, "about the simple text, the structure, and the importance of a turning point in the narrative." And although the line and wash drawings, with that vigorous, distinctive hatching and cross-hatching seem so spontaneous, "he'd draw and redraw until he got it exactly right". Lucy and Tim were based on Christianna and her brother, so did they have to sit still to be drawn? Abridged reprint in Matrix: A Review for Printers and Bibliophiles, No. 13 (Winter 1993), pp. 151-157