George Worsley Adamson

George Worsley Adamson (7 February 1913, The Bronx, New York—5 March 2005, Exeter, Devon) was a book illustrator, author and cartoonist 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 ] at Wigan and Leigh College, Oxford University, and the Liverpool College of Art. He exhibited at the Royal 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 and Hokusai, 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 and graphic designer 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 transparent acetate 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 a Fellow of the Royal 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 the altar. 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 the RAF Coastal Command as a navigator in Catalina flying boats on the Western Approaches and trained on B-24 Liberators in the Bahamas. After he illustrated a feature on transatlantic flights for the "Illustrated London News," he was appointed an official war artist for the Coastal Command. Some of Adamson's drawings are now in the Imperial War Museum and the RAF 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 the Royal 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 in Glasgow, Scotland, and his mother, born in Wigan, Lancashire, had moved to New York City from Bombay, India in 1910.

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* [http://www.georgewadamson.com/ George Worsley Adamson official site]