Edward Ardizzone: Artist and Illustrator

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Edward Ardizzone: Artist and Illustrator

Edward Ardizzone: Artist and Illustrator

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The Royal Air Force's (RAF) bombing offensive against Nazi Germany was one of the longest, most expensive and controversial of the Allied campaigns during the Second World War. The ‘Phoney War’ came to a dramatic end when Germany launched attacks on France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg on 10 May. Edward Ardizzone (1900 – 1979) was an English painter, print-maker and war artist, and the author and illustrator of many children's books, most famous of which being The Adventures of Tim series. Ardizzone and other war artists such as Anthony Gross, Edward Bawden, Thomas Hennell, Carel Weight and Leslie Cole gave home audiences a sense of what life was like for British troops overseas.

While working as an office clerk, Ardizzone had spent his weekends and free time painting and in 1926, with financial support from his father, gave up his office job to concentrate on establishing himself as a professional, freelance artist. Beside writing and illustrating his own books, Ardizzone also illustrated books written by others, including some editions of Anthony Trollope and H. James Walker Tucker James Walker Tucker was born in Wallsend, a town not far from Newcastle, in Northumberland, North East England. The year 1929 also saw Ardizzone's marriage, the birth of his first child, and (a little under a year later) his first one-man show at the Bloomsbury Gallery, followed by several at the Leger Gallery over the next few years. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, retold by Eleanor Graham, and A Ring of Bells (1962), John Betjeman's abridged version for children of his autobiographical poem Summoned by Bells (1960).

In February 1945, he flew to join the British Army in Germany and recorded the closing months of the war there.

The Committee’s minutes of the following month note that arrangements had been made for him to paint ‘coming events’. Ardizzone’s intimate, gently humorous drawing style made him able to humanise the events of the war through his work. Instead of creating epic war pictures, he concentrated on everyday heroics, applying his illustrator’s knowledge of standard poses and characters to the scenarios that he drew. In 1936 he inaugurated his best-known work, the Tim series of books, featuring the maritime adventures of its eponymous young hero, which he both wrote and illustrated.Ardizzone’s intimate scenes of bar-room and back-stage life and street life in London are drawn with a whimsicality and charm that are inimitable and unmistakeable.



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