Editing Edward Ardizzone

'''Edward Ardizzone''' (1900-1979) was an [[England|English]] book illustrator.

== Early life ==
He was born in China but moved to England in 1905.  His father was [[Italy|Italian]] by birth but a naturalised [[France|Frenchman]].  His mother was English and he was naturalised in 1922.  He was educated at Ipswich Grammar School and Clayesmore School then spent six months at a college of commerce.

== Career ==
He worked at first as a clerk in the City of London.  In the evenings he took classes at Westminster School of Art and became a professional artist in 1926.  Up to 1939 he worked as a painter, mainly in water-colour, and as a graphic artist.  His first major commission, in 1929, was from [[Peter Llewelyn Davies]] to illustrate ''In a Glass Darkly'' by [[J. Sheridan Le Fanu]].

He made drawings for [[Radio Times]] and [[Punch]]; he illustrated picture books that he wrote himself.  He served in an anti-aircraft regiment, 1939.  He became an official war artist in 1940; his work was recorded in ''Baggage to the Enemy'' (1941) and ''Diary of a War Artist'' (1974); there are some 300 water-colours of this period in the [[Imperial War Museum]].  After [[World War II]], he returned a to free-lance career, exhibiting, doing water-colour portraits, and illustrating books, including his own ''Tim All Alone'' (1956), and poems by [[Walter de la Mare]].

He was an instructor in graphic design at Camberwell School of Art up to 1960.  He visited South [[India]] for [[UNESCO]], training students in silk-screen printing in 1952.  He was elected ARA in 1962 and RA in 1970; he was awarded the CBE in 1971.

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