Stanley Spencer One of Britain’s most significant painters, Sir Stanley Spencer is celebrated for his garden landscapes, his raw depictions of personal life and his interpretations of biblical narrative – all set in his beloved birthplace, the village of Cookham, Berkshire. Spencer’s father, William, was a church organist and music teacher. He had his son home schooled from their house ‘Fernlea’, in Cookham, but also sent him for private drawing lessons to local artist Dorothy Bailey. He had further encouragement from a local landowner, Lady Boston. She arranged his attendance at Maidenhead Technical Institute, after which Stanley attended the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Here he was tutored by Henry Tonks, and his contemporaries included Paul Nash and Edward Wadsworth. During the First World War Spencer served with the Royal Army Medical Corps on ambulance duties. He was sent to Macedonia where he spent two years on the front line, facing German and Bulgarian troops, before being invalided out after experiencing bouts of malaria. Spencer moved to Hampstead after the War. Here he rented a studio and began work on ‘The Resurrection, Cookham’ (1924-7). This was the first of Spencer’s works to gain critical acclaim. ‘The Resurrection’ is set in the… Please feel free to contribute to the Archive’s development by suggesting or bringing to light missing artworks, interesting articles, and any other ways we can enhance the content. Ardizzone's first major commission was to illustrate an edition of In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu in 1929. He also produced advertising material for Johnnie Walker whisky, and illustrations for both Punch and The Radio Times, [4] including the 1937 and 1948 Christmas covers of the latter. The first book by Ardizzone listed by the US Library of Congress is The Mediterranean: An Anthology (London: Cassell, 1935, OCLC 2891569), compiled by Paul Bloomfield, "decorated by Edward Ardizzone" with "each chapter preceded by illustrated half-title". [6] 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. Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain was published by Oxford University Press in both London and New York that year. [7] In 1939 he illustrated the first of a series of four Mimff children's books by H.J.Kaesar.

Explore the British Library Search - don quixote ardizzone". explore.bl.uk . Retrieved 31 January 2021. Edward Ardizzone is remembered as an illustrator and as an author whose work was rooted in the English tradition of satirical drawing. He was born in Haiphong, Vietnam, the eldest child of Auguste Ardizzone, a French-Italian telegraph engineer and Margaret Irving, who was of Scottish descent. Once an artist herself, she encouraged her son to take an interest in art. A quiet and withdrawn child, frequently bullied at his early schools, Ardizzone devoted himself to drawing. Later, in 1918 after having left boarding school, he began working as a city clerk in London, while taking evening classes at the Westminster School of Art under the artist, Bernard Meninsky. By 1927 he took the plunge and abandoned his city career to dedicate himself to life as an artist (much against his father’s will). His early commissions for book illustrations were slow to come, while his first exhibition held in London in 1930 resulted in no sales at all. However, a chance meeting with an old school friend who was art editor of the Radio Times, eventually led to a constant stream of commissions for the periodical. By the mid-1930s Ardizzone had established a successful career, holding regular exhibitions in London and designing book illustrations. During the Second World War Ardizzone worked as an Official War Artist in France, North Africa and Italy, recording his experiences and impressions in two published diaries and in a large corpus of watercolours now in the Imperial War Museum. After the War, he returned to London and continued illustrating for nearly 200 books, including several titles of his own. Ardizzone, Edward (2013). The young Ardizzone: an autobiographical fragment. ISBN 978-1-906562-48-9. OCLC 897426936. Ronan Thomas (8 December 2010). "Blitz by Brushstroke; Westminster's War Artists". West End at War . Retrieved 4 August 2016.

The pub is still a very traditional mini-pub. It’s now run by a Polish lady called Daga and Anthony from Deptford. Anthony was only two weeks into the job, while Daga had been there some time. She loved that every day was different. She knew her regulars’ names; they were like family. After five years with Greene King, she is now an assistant manageress. Abridged reprint in Matrix: A Review for Printers and Bibliophiles, No. 13 (Winter 1993), pp. 151-157 Explore the British Library Search - nubar modern prometheus". explore.bl.uk . Retrieved 31 January 2021. a b Gough, Catherine (1968). Boyhoods of great composers. London; Melbourne: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-19-314917-5. OCLC 50713. After the War, Ardizzone resumed his freelance career and received commissions from The Strand Magazine for cover artwork, from the Ealing film studios for promotional material and from the Guinness company for adverts. Ardizzone was commissioned to produce a watercolour portrait of Winston Churchill and continued to write and illustrate books. [4] The most famous Tim book is the inaugural Greenaway Medal-winner, Tim All Alone (Oxford, 1956). [2] The series continued until 1972 with Tim's Last Voyage which was followed in 1977 by Ship's Cook Ginger.

Miroslav Sasek This is Sasek: Miroslav Sasek (1916-1980) (or Meer-oh-slahf Sah-sek as pronounced, and written Ŝaŝek, but best known by his drawn signature: ‘M. Sasek’). Sasek was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, November 1916, to parents who generally discouraged his early interest in drawing and painting and pushed him instead into training as an architect. At the onset of the communist coup in 1948, aged 32, Sasek left Prague for Munich, where from 1951-57 he worked for Radio Free Europe. On a short holiday to Paris and enthralled by the city and its history, Sasek realised that distracted parents with children in tow rarely seemed to interpret the city to their off-spring, and that sketches of his surroundings he was making might best be used as illustrations for a children’s book. ‘This Is Paris’ (1959) was born. Sasek’s illustrations might best be described as whimsical. There’s a gentle and quirky wit to his pictures: the policeman twirls his truncheon much as a child might twirl an imaginary wand; the string of helium balloons sold in the park, an outsized illustration which seems to capture the way a child might prioritize its visual scene, reaches higher than the tallest of palm trees. And this…Ardizzone always maintained that the art of a children’s book illustrator was particularly good when it was created as much for the child within the illustrator, as for the child viewing the illustrations. And this, almost certainly, is why the Tim books have just as much appeal for adults as they do for children; and why, too, there is no condescension in either the writing or the illustrations for the books.

Greene, Graham; Ardizzone, Edward (2015). The little horse bus. ISBN 978-1-78295-283-1. OCLC 973821611. Brand, Christianna (2005). Three Tales From Nurse Matilda (Box Set of Nurse Matilda, Nurse Matilda Goes to Town and Nurse Matilda Goes to Hospital). ISBN 978-1-122-69308-0. The barmaids of Ardizzone’s day have been replaced by a charming Greek chap, Ilias, who has been there two years. He reported that the pub’s business is mainly locals and mostly at weekends, especially at Sunday lunchtime, when the place is heaving. Explore the British Library Search - nicholas fast moving diesel ardizzone". explore.bl.uk . Retrieved 31 January 2021.Typically, the pub gets its regulars from the tourists and shoppers who flow up and down Oxford Street. Neither were very apparent. But that Friday lunchtime the pub had a good crowd.