Buy this book on-line REEVES**, JAMES: : ARCADIAN BALLADSLONDON.HEINEMANN,1978. ISBN 0435147722.
UK, Qrto HB+dw/dj, 1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn, no price-clip to dw/dj.Small slight edge curl rear bottom edge dw/dj.Qrto,48pp, verse and b/w line illustrations by Edward ARDIZZONE.
Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone,1900-1979, worked as Edward Ardizzone.Born in Haiphong, China, the son of an employee of the Eastern Telegrah Company,the eldest of five children.He lived in the Far East until he was five and then moved with his family to England.Ardizzone lived in Ipswich until he was 14, 'and it was here', he wrote,'that I learnt to know and love the little coastal steamers that I have drawn so often in the TIM books.'
He attended evening classes in life drawing given by Bernard Meninsky at Westminster School of Art,while employed as a statistical clerk in London (1916-26).He worked freelance as an illustrator from 1926,achieving widespread recognition with his first children's book 'Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain (1936) the first of the famous TIM books.
Served in the Royal Artillery(1939-40);
Official War Artist(1940-45), noted for his war diaries.Taught illustration at Camberwell School of Art(1948-52).Worked for UNESCO in India (1952-53).Part-time tutor at the Royal College of Art School of Etching (1953-61).Ardizzone worked in watercolour,pen and ink,pencil and lithograph as a painter,printmaker,greetings card designer and illustrator of over 170 books, many of them his own.He was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal (1956) for 'Tim All Alone' and the Carnegie Medal(1955) and Hans Christian Andersen Medal(1956) with 'The Little Bookroom'. He particularly enjoyed illustrating poetry.He worked mainly from memory, early developing a freely drawn and unmistakable style that changed very little during the course of his long career.He acknowledged the influence of Bernard Meninsky on his work, and also the 19thC draughtsmen Daumier,Dore and Caldecott.His brother-in-law Gabriel White considered 'perhaps no artist since Randolph Caldecott has captured so easily the qualities essential in successful illustration for a child.Ardizzone's are bold and clear and tell the tale in the simplest lines and colours.Ardizzone was awarded the CBE (UK honour) in 1971.In 1973,a retrospective of his work was held at the V & A Museum in London.
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