Artists

EDWARD ARDIZZONE RA (1900-1979)

Medium

Watercolour and pen and ink

Dimensions:

28.00cm wide   19.00cm high (11.02 inches wide  7.48 inches high)

Provenance

Barbara Eustace (granddaughter of Hilaire Belloc), who purchased the watercolour from the Royal Academy exhibition in 1969, and thence by descent.

Exhibition History

London, Royal Academy Summer Exhibitiion, 1969, no.246

Description / Expertise

A watercolourist, illustrator and writer, Ardizzone was educated at Clayesmore School and studied art at evening classes at the Westminster School of Art under Bernard Meninsky (1921-26). In 1927 he became a free-lance artist and illustrator supplying work for the Radio Times and Strand Magazine. He illustrated his first book in 1929 and became one of the country’s best-loved and most prolific book artists of the mid 20th century. His first one-man show was held at the Leger Galleries in 1931 and thereafter he was a frequent exhibitor in London. He was an official war artist during World War II and taught at Camberwell School of Art and the Royal College of Art. A retrospective exhibition was held at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1974.

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