#Edward Ardizzone

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The Witch Family, illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, 1960

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Edward Ardizzone | Duille

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Back to the Local

By Maurice Gorham.

Cover art by Edward Ardizzone.

Design by Pete Adlington.

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Totally Random Non-Fiction Tuesday

This was a really cute and heartwarming kids book. (And, an older one). It’s about family, and community, and how even kiddos can help. Simon and Sarah are the kids. They are poor, and their father is a painter who needs just a bit of red paint to finish his masterpiece. The father also has a dealer who will buy the painting, but, it has to be done by the next day. And so… with no money left… Sarah and Simon have to figure out how to help their father and get him some red paint.

I picked it up because the art was so interesting looking, but, then I did find that I really liked the story in there too. And, come to find out that Ardizzone has a lot of books that he’s both written, or just illustrated. So, that was a happy fact to find out. Many more books to read.

Sarah and Simon and No Red Paint by Edward Ardizzone

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Down in the Cellar :: Nicholas Stuart Gray

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Shakespeare Weekend

Shakespeare’s historical tragedy, Richard the Third, is volume nineteen of the thirty-seven volume The Comedies Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare, published by the Limited Editions Club (LEC) from 1939-1940. The play was likely produced in 1594. It was first printed in 1597 in quarto where it was considered a tragedy, but was published in the First Folio in 1623 among the histories.  The German-born American illustrator, Fritz Eichenberg (1901-1990), was the LEC’s third choice as illustrator for this volume. Their first choice was the English painter, Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956), who accepted the project, but became too ill to begin. Their second choice was, the English painter, Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979), who was one of the British Official War Artists. Ardizzone produced a series of watercolors for the book, and they were reproduced for this publication by the lithographer Fernand Mourlot, in Paris. When the Germans invaded Paris, Mourlot was able to escape. He loyally brought with him all of the reproductions of the watercolors, which he then shipped to New York. Unfortunately, the lithographs never reached the Limited Editions Club and are presumed to be at the bottom of the ocean. 

Fritz Eichenberg said of illustrating Richard the Third: 

I think it is impossible for a modern artist to dissociate his thoughts from the events and emotions of his day... When I tried to fathom Richard’s character, it did not seem to me different from any other power-greedy, bloodthirsty usurper: be it Nero or Hitler.... The artist looks around in his world and he will find living parallels that will make those shadowy tyrants of the past come to life again. 

I looked for a technique that equaled wood-engraving in its poignant darkness and sparse highlights, something that corresponded with the nightmarish quality of the play in its gloomy darkness. I think I found the proper medium in these stone engravings, scraped out of the darkened lithograph stone with the help of diamond, knife and razorblade, wonderfully precise and willing tools in the hands of the artist, but still,  when you think of them in terms of a Richard III, just as precise instruments of bribe, murder and destruction.

The volumes in the set were printed in an edition of 1950 copies at the Press of A. Colish, and each was illustrated by a different artist, but the unifying factor is that all volumes were designed by famed book and type designer Bruce Rogers and edited by the British theatre professional and Shakespeare specialist Herbert Farjeon. Our copy is number 1113, the number for long-standing LEC member Austin Fredric Lutter of Waukesha, Wisconsin.

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-Teddy, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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'Evening in Soho' (1956) - by Edward Ardizzone.

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Do you take inspirations from children book illustrations? Your general artstyle (mainly background art) reminds me of colorful children books in a way

a bit, yeah! I have an aunt who does children’s books, and i’ve always really admired her work and a lot of other artists in that field. As a kid, I was really in love with the work of rosemary wells, as well as tasha tudor and edward ardizzone. I think its a wonderful field for a few things- one, watercolor and gouache illustration- two, exploration of space and enviroment in an interesting way and- three, color. I don’t plan to work in that field simply because i’m interested in making erotic and adult work and i’d rather not cross those subjects, but i do wish there was more of a market for illustrated books for adults, because i would be all over that.

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tagged in a thing by @verecunda!! it took me ...several weeks to actually do it, but I Have been thinking about it the entire time. so.

rules: list ten books that have stayed with you in some way, don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard - they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you.

The Tombs of Atuan, Ursula K. LeGuin - this is the book that I spent my whole life looking for, was certain existed, and well - it's real, and was exactly what I needed when I found it, and that's not something that happens often.

Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson - so many of the best developments of the past few years of my life can be owed directly to this book. which is a wild thing to say, I'll admit.

Spying on Whales, Nick Pyenson - ocean's haunted! whales are full of weird goo! and other fun facts written in such a tranquil manner.

Beowulf, as translated by Seamus Heaney - it's Beowulf. what more have I to say. if you know you know.

Bonnie Dundee, Rosemary Sutcliff - that incredibly rare thing, a book that actually depicts the artistic process in a way that makes sense to me as a person who draws.

The Flight of the Heron, D.K. Broster - previously unimaginable occurrences have in fact Repeatedly Occurred because of this book. shan't elaborate as I'm sure you've seen my soupy state of being over the last year or so.

The Adventures of Robin Hood, Roger Lancelyn Green - almost positive that this was the first book I ever truly Shouted about. there's a half-written stage adaptation written by twelve-year-old em around in some folder somewhere still...

In Small Things Forgotten, James Deetz - sends me into some kind of Architectural Trance every time I read it.

Tim To The Lighthouse, Edward Ardizzone - administer this potion to your children at frequent intervals to most certainly turn them into boat-obsessed scribble artists who will never recover.

By the Great Horn Spoon, Sid Fleischman - ...actually I just realized that a lot of the way and what I write now can be traced directly to having this poured directly into me as a small child as well. hm.

and I shall tag... @sailorpants, @dxppercxdxver, @sanguinarysanguinity, @natdrinkstea, @alizuriacrow, @cytocutie, @what-even-is-sleep, @graveyardrabbit, @annabellioncourt, @cedarboots, if you'd like to share?

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My top ten reads of 2022

Memoirs

🌼 Head Above Water by Shahd Alshammari

🌼 The Return by Hisham Matar

🌼 How I Survived a Chinese ‘Re-Education Camp’ by Gulbahar Haitiwaji and Rozenn Morgat, translated by Edward Gauvin

Fiction

🌼 Discretion by Faïza Guène, translated by Sarah Ardizzone

🌼 What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad

🌼 As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh

🌼 No Land to Light On by Yara Zgheib

Short Stories

🌼 Shatila Stories published by Peirene Press, nine contributors: Omar Khaled Ahmad, Nibal AlAlow, Safa Khaled Algharbawi, Omar Abdellatif Alndaf, Rayan Mohamad Sukkar, Safiya Badran, Fatima Omar Ghazawi, Samih Mahmoud, Hiba Mareb. Translated by Nashwa Gowanlock

🌼 Manchester Happened by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

🌼 The Sea Cloak and Other Stories by Nayrouz Qarmout, translated by Perween Richards

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【素敵な洋書絵本の紹介】 ディラン・トマスはイギリス、ウェールズ南部の海沿いの街スウォンジーで生まれました。 彼は数々のアーティストに影響を与えていま す。ノーベル文学賞を受賞したボブ・ディランは彼の名前からとられているそうです。 この本は、絵本ではありますが、それは詩でもなく、散文と言っていいかもしれません。 たくさんの懐かしい思い出が重なり合いながら、ゆっくりと広がっていく子ども時代のクリスマスの風景が、エドワード・アーディゾー二の挿絵と ともに浮かび上がってきます。 ディラン・トマスのその感性は、クリスマスの時期のあの独特の空気感をうまく表現しています。 日本でも長く読み継がれている「ウェールズのクリスマスの想い出」です。アーディゾーニの挿絵が味わい深くて良いですよ。 A Child's Christmas in Wales (Godine Storyteller) Contributor(s): Thomas, Dylan (Author) , Ardizzone, Edward (Illustrator) EAN: 9780879233396 Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher Binding: Hardcover Copyright Date: 1980 Pub Date: December 01, 2014 Target Age Group: 08 to 11 Physical Info: 1.07 cms H x 24.69 cms L x 19.51 cms W (0.34 kgs) 43 pages Annotation: Of all the modern holiday classics, this is perhaps the best known and best loved. In humorous, sonorous, nostalgic prose, Dylan Thomas recalls the church-going, the tree-trimming, the food, the carols and games, not of one childhood Christmas but of them all: he distills here the Perfect Dream of Christmas. For this edition, the immortal Edward Ardizzone produced 30 delightful watercolors and drawings (and if you're clever you can recognize Cardiff as the Welsh town in which the story is set) as a perfect counterpoint to Thomas's lilting words. #dylanthomas #edwardardizzone #readleafbooks #art #本 #本棚 #絵本 #児童書 #絵本屋 #洋書絵本 #絵本が好き #絵本が好きな人と繋がりたい #絵本のある暮らし #芸術 #英語 #イラスト #base #baseec　#クリスマス @readleafbooks Webショップで紹介中。プロフィールからぜひどうぞ！ https://www.instagram.com/p/CmEOmO7P5Ug/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Pen and Ink by Edward Ardizzone

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Masculine Indifference   -   Edward Ardizzone

Vietnamese-British, 1900-1979

oil on canvas laid down on panel, 21.5 x 28 cm.    8½  x 11 in.

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Christmas Eve

On this day before Christmas, we present Christmas Eve, a poem by Irish-born British Poet Laureate C. Day Lewis, to remind us holiday-jaded readers of the simple pleasures of the season -- as well as its religious significance. The illustrations are by English writer, artist, and illustrator Edward Ardizzone, and the little chapbook was published in London by Faber and Faber as part its 1954 revival of the Ariel Poems series, which originally began in 1927 as a series of illustrated pamphlets with holiday themes by noted writers and illustrators of the day to be sent to the firm’s clients and business acquaintances as Christmas greetings.

On this Christmas Eve, we hope that you too are “wild with expectancy for the hollied day,” although we agree that in these jaded times “It’s a miracle . . . this Day can keep expectation alive.”

View our other posts from Christmas Eves past.