biografia di George Worsley ADAMSON (1913-2005)

Personal data

Birth : 02/07/1913 - New York NY New York, United States
Death : 03/05/2005
Sex : M
Nationality/Affiliation : United Kingdom - United States

Address

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Education

1930 – 1934 : Mining and Technical College – Wigan, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Pupil of / student of Leonard T. HOWELLS [ XIX-XX ]
1936 – 1939 : Liverpool College of Art – Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom
Pupil of / student of Geoffrey Heath WEDGWOOD [ 1900-1977 ]

Professional data

Work and Life

1943:Official War Artist
1940 – 1946:Served in the RAF

Other professions

Illustrator

Affiliated to an association

British Cartoonist’s Association – London, United Kingdom
1987 : Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers – London, United Kingdom
1994 : Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers – London, United Kingdom

Work

Categorie and medium

Painting : Oil/board

Print-Multiple : Aquatint - Copper engraving - Drypoint - Engraving

Drawing-Watercolor : Charcoal - Felt pen - Gouache

Subject

cartoon
portrait

Movements and styles

Surrealism

Works

San Marco, Venice
Date of creation : c.1990 Medium : Gouache/paper

Filming "The Onedin Line", Exeter
Date of creation : 1984 Medium : Drypoint Size : 12 x 17 inch

Magic Moments
Date of creation : 1977 Medium : Pencil Materials : wash

Le Logis, La Boissière du Doré
Date of creation : 1971 Medium : Gouache/paper

A Finding Alphabet: S, T or U
Date of creation : 1964 Medium : Oil/board

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

Solo exhibitions

1976

George Adamson Cartoons Christmas Show
Market Print Gallery – Exeter, United Kingdom
1976

1968

Adamson Exhibition
Royal Albert Memorial Museum – Exeter, United Kingdom
08/1968 – 09/1968

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

Festivals

1975

Ilkley Literature Festival
Ilkley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
05/27/1975 – 05/31/1975

Group exhibitions

2003

The Page is Printed: a Ted Hughes Exhibition
British Library – London, United Kingdom
11/07/2003 – 02/01/2004

1996

Eyetimes: 35 years of Private Eye
The National Portrait Gallery – London, United Kingdom
1996

1991

Punch, 150th Anniversary Exhibition
Royal Festival Hall – London, United Kingdom
10/11/1991 – 11/17/1991

1980

The Art of Ted Hughes
Manchester City Art Gallery – Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom
08/12/1980 – 09/07/1980

1979

Illustrations to Ted Hughes Poems
V & A – The Victoria and Albert Museum – London, United Kingdom
1979

Fantasy Books and Illustrations
United Kingdom
1979

1978

Etchings
Market Print Gallery – Exeter, United Kingdom
09/30/1978 – 10/31/1978

1975

British Humor
Los Angeles CA, United States
06/1975

1974

L’Humour Franco-Britannique
Galerie Génot – Paris, France
1974

1968

Cartoonists of the British School
East Kent Folkestone Arts Centre – Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom
1968

1963

Punch
Wilhelm Busch Museum – Hanover, Germany
1963

1962

Drawings
Devonshire House – University of Exeter – Exeter, United Kingdom
1962

1960

Punch
United Kingdom
1960 – 1961

1959

British Illustration
AIGA American Institute of Graphic Arts – New York NY, United States
1959

1958

Book Illustration
The Arts Council of England – London, United Kingdom
1958

1938

Liverpool Etchers’ & Engravers’ Exhibition
Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom
1938

Bibliography (Selected)

On the artist

Books

2001

Cambridge Guide to Children’s Books in English
Cambridge, United Kingdom
2001

2000

Dictionary of British cartoonists and Caricaturists
United Kingdom
2000

1995

Twentieth-Century Children’s Wrietrs
Detroit MI, United States
1995

Dictionaries

1978

Children’s Authors and illustrators: An Index to Biographical Dictionaries
Detroit MI, United States
1978

Websites

http://www.georgewadamson.com/

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