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Armoured Ardizzone artwork 😍
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Leaguer in a pine forest on the edge of a ploughed clearing. The ground a thick, soft moss. Lovely smell from the trees, crushed moss and herbage and the wood fires. Sleep with the crew of my tank under a tarpaulin
If anyone is wondering what to get me for Christmas, this, 'The Bar Maid' by Edward Ardizzone, currently for sale through @CBeetlesGallery will do nicely. Thank you.
Author & illustrator Edward Ardizzone was born #OTD in 1900. He won won the inaugural Kate Greenaway Medal for Tim All Alone (1956).
🎨 #EdwardArdizzone, artist and illustrator, official British WWII war artist, was #BOTD 16 October 1900. #Art #Illustration #Painting
A Soldier Shaving in the Snow, by Edward Ardizzone (1900-79), 1945.
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'Look for the picture books of...Ardizzone, Burningham, Browne, Blake, Shirley Hughes, the Ahlbergs & Sendak. Read them with your most adult awareness of life & literature & text, & you will see that the invitations they offer to young readers are far from infantile.'
Meek, 1988
With the 8th Hussars in Germany: start at dawn, by Edward Ardizzone (1900-79), 1945.
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Pulling off the Padre's Boots, by Edward Ardizzone (1900-79), 1940.
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Major Keating M.C. in a Tailor's Shop in Lucera, November 12th 1943, by Edward Ardizzone (1900-79).
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Home Guards at the 'Local', by Edward Ardizzone (1900-79), 1941.
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When I see images of civilians sheltering in Ukrainian cities, this is an image that comes to mind. Edward Ardizzone's 'In The Shelter'. A watercolour full of the uncomfortable, dreary, anxious exhaustion of life in a bomb shelter.
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Ardizzone's work is a great place to start if you are interested in book collecting: not too expensive, but excellent quality illustrations supporting some great books.
In 1944 Ardizzone travelled with British troops as the D-Day invasion took place, sketching on the landing craft as the men prepared to hit the beach.
The War Office felt Ardizzone’s intimate and understated style would help Britons better understand the War and what life in the forces was actually like. After France, Ardizzone was posted to Cairo and then Italy, covering the day to day life of British troops.
But it was inn 1936 that Ardizzone wrote and illustrated the first book that would bring him to fame: Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain, published by Oxford University Press. He would go on to develop Tim's adventures in later books.