- George Worsley Adamson
George Worsley Adamson (
7 February 1913 ,The Bronx ,New York —5 March 2005 ,Exeter ,Devon ) was a bookillustrator ,author andcartoonist who from 1931 held American and British dual citizenship.George Adamson was educatedcite web |url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1450619,00.html |title= George Adamson: Prolific illustrator of children's books and irreverent magazines |author= Patrick Boylan |work=
The Guardian |date=2 April 2005 ] atWigan and Leigh College ,Oxford University , and theLiverpool College of Art . He exhibited at theRoyal Academy , and contributed to "Punch" from 1939 to 1988.cite web |url= http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20050316/ai_n12942804 |title= Obituary: George Adamson |author= Mark Bryant |work=The Independent |date=16 March 2005 |quote= Influenced by classical artists such as Velazquez,Rembrandt , Goya andHokusai , Adamson worked on paper,gesso surfaces and scraperboard, and used pen and ink, wash, charcoal, chalk,gouache , oils and other media. His training as an etcher, engraver andgraphic design er also had an effect on his illustration and cartoon work and, to assist the speed of production and more accurate printing, he made extensive use of transparentacetate film to separate line drawings from painted backgrounds. ] From the late 1930s,cite web |url= http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/obituaries.cfm?id=308652005 |title= George Worsley Adamson: Artist, illustrator and author |author= John Adamson |work=The Scotsman |date=23 March 2005 |quote= In the late 1970s Adamson had returned to etching, being elected aFellow of theRoyal Society of Painter-Printmakers in 1987. A print of St Andrew’s Cathedral is in the Fleming [http://www.flemingcollection.co.uk/ Collection] of Scottish art: amid the gaunt ruins and the tourists, ghostly monks may be glimpsed processing solemnly towards thealtar . From behind a tombstone a small child looks on — we too are invited to watch. ] he illustrated Norman Hunter's "Professor Branestawm " books.During
World War II ,cite web |url= http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=artifact4102 |title= Full record display, George Worsley Adamson: illustrator and humorist |work=Intute ] Adamson served with theRAF Coastal Command as anavigator in Catalinaflying boat s on theWestern Approaches and trained onB-24 Liberator s inthe Bahamas . After he illustrated a feature ontransatlantic flight s for the "Illustrated London News ," he was appointed an officialwar artist for the Coastal Command. Some of Adamson's drawings are now in theImperial War Museum and theRAF Museum .In the 1980s, he illustrated five of the
Richard Ingrams and John Wells "Dear Bill " books for "Private Eye ".George Adamson was elected a
fellow of theRoyal Society of Painter-Printmakers in 1987.George Adamson's parentscite web |url= http://www.georgewadamson.com/biography.html |title= The life story of George Adamson, 1913-2005, illustrator and humorist |author= John Adamson Publishing Consultants ] were George William Adamson, a master car builder for the
Interborough Rapid Transit Company , and Mary Lydia (Lily, née Howard). His father, born inGlasgow ,Scotland , and his mother, born inWigan ,Lancashire , had moved toNew York City from Bombay,India in 1910.References
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* [http://www.georgewadamson.com/ George Worsley Adamson official site]
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