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… And the men in flat caps have gone the same way. Funnily enough, in 1939, The Local despaired of the craze for darts changing the character of pubs, ‘but the worst dangers seemed to have passed away’. a b c "Results for 'edward ardizzone' > 'Book' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org . Retrieved 31 January 2021.

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 ] 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 Dan's art practice reflects social and cultural themes found by working with the local communities. The results are both democratic and critically challenging for audience and participants alike." Ardizzone reached a particularly wide public through his contributions to periodicals. His drawings for Radio Times first appeared in 1932, and he was chosen in the same year to design the cover of the Christmas issue. He was also closely associated with the Strand magazine, providing a series of coloured drawings of Londoners in 1942, and drawing all except one of the covers between October 1946 and December 1947. Soon considered as one of the greatest illustrators of his generation, he also gained a reputation as a distinguished Official War Artist, through his record in word and image of action in Europe and North Africa. Book won the Carnegie Meal in 1955 [17] and Eleanor Farjeon was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1956.In 1954, Edward Ardizzone was commissioned to execute a portrait of Sir Winston Churchill for presentation to him on his retirement. But even in his most commercial illustrations, his work is incredibly well observed, drawn simply but always capturing the life and vitality of what he’s seeing. Ardizzone’s work always looks loose and sketchy. But that masks the cleverness of his technique. His careful use of shading, and the occasional looseness of line, adds depth. He never tries to draw a face in detail, but his people are always alive. By 1939 Ardizzone was regularly holding one-man exhibitions at the Bloomsbury Gallery and, later, the Leger Gallery. At this time the major theme of his paintings was life in London, with affectionate illustrations of the pubs and parks near his home in Maida Vale. [4] His style was naturalistic but subdued, featuring gentle lines and delicate watercolours, with great attention to particular details. 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. Other books written and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone [ edit ] All other books both written and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone [1] [2] [3] Title

In children’s picture books Ardizzone had published Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain with Oxford University Press in 1936, and was encouraged to produce more books, as well as illustrating texts by Eleanor Farjeon, Philippa Pearce and other writers. He saw himself as an ‘Oxford’ man, but found it hard to go on producing more books about his most famous character. In 1956, Tim All Alone was a surprisingly dark story, beginning with a small boy returning home to find his house shuttered and his parents nowhere to be found. Ardizzone suffered depression at this time, and the book may have been its manifestation – as well as being his masterpiece, and recognised as such by the award of the first Kate Greenaway Medal. a b Brain Foss (2007). War paint: Art, War, State and Identity in Britain, 1939–1945. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-10890-3. In the illustration of the Warrington in The Local, men and women are lolling or going upstairs, suggesting there were assignations going on. The present owners admit that at one time it had a reputation for that sort of thing. The Eleanor Farjeon book: a tribute to her life and work 1881-1965, (1966), introduction by Naomi LewisThe 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.

They lived in London and Christianna - now 70 and a hugely entertaining storyteller herself - paints a vivid picture of the family home in Maida Vale, whose streets, shops, pubs, parks and raffish local characters are recorded with such affectionate relish in Ardizzone's work. Ardizzone worked at home; he had been a clerk in his father's firm, forever embellishing the accounts with drawings and doodles, and attending life classes at Westminster School of Art in the evenings, but he gave up that job to become a professional artist.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, Edward (1900–1979)". English Heritage . Retrieved 18 August 2012. . Not found 19 March, 2019. And, indeed, Christianna, as a little girl, had elaborate plans to secure a comfortable future by making friends with rich old gentlemen in Paddington recreation ground where their father took them to play... and that's what inspired the story Lucy Brown and Mr Grimes.

Edward Ardizzone RA (1900 - 1979)

The exhibition explores Ardizzone’s fascination with ships and the sea as well as celebrating his love of adventure with artwork from the Graham Greene story The Little Train. appearance in print of Nurse Matilda, later developed into the Nurse Matilda series of books (1964-1974). Nurse Matilda was the inspiration for Nanny McPhee