George Worsley Adamson
 
1913–2005

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  Exhibitions featuring work by George Adamson
 
  • Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937

  • Atkinson Gallery, Southport, 1934

  • Liverpool Etchers’ & Engravers’ Exhibition, 1938

  • Royal Academy, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1948 (see Etchings)

  • Kenn Group Exhibition, Exeter School of Art, September 1947

  • Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery: Exhibition of Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture and Craft work by members of the Exeter School of Art Staff, 27 June to 29 July, 1950

  • Society of Industrial Artists, Illustrators Group: An Exhibition of Book Illustration, Folio Society, London, 1 October - 21 November 1957

  • Arts Council: Book Illustrations: By the Illustrators Group of the Society of Industrial Artists, 1958 (above exhibition toured throughout Great Britain), pen drawings from the forthcoming Faber Book of Nursery Verse

  • Society of Industrial Artists Illustrators Group: British Illustration, The American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York, 1959 (above SIA exhbition shown in New York)

  • Covering Punch, 1960, toured Great Britain, 1961

  • University of Exeter, Devonshire House, Exhibition Hall, drawings, November – December 1962

  • University of Exeter, Devonshire House, Exhibition Hall, Exhibition of Drawings from Radio Times, with selections from The Listener and other BBC Publications, 4–22 March 1963

  • Wilhelm Busch Museum, Hanover, Punch drawings, 1963, toured Germany 1964

  • East Kent and Folkestone Arts Centre: Cartoonists of the British School, Folkestone, 16 March–20 April 1968

  • Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter: Adamson Exhibition: George Adamson, Illustrator & Cartoonist, a one-man show, 20 August – 20 September 1968

  • Dent: Pictures from Children's Books: A Celebration of Dent Artists, Dent Showroom, London, 10 July to 5 August 1974?

  • Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, Central Library: Hamlet behind the Clown: Serious works by humorous artists, exh. arranged by the Friends of Leighton House, London, April/May 1972

  • Galerie Génot, Paris: L’Humour actuel franco-britannique: 200 dessins [Franco-British Humour Today: 200 drawings], 20 November 1974 – 10 December 1974, but extended

  • Ilkley Literature Festival, An exhibition in honour of Ted Hughes, devised and presented by Keith Sagar to mark the poet’s involvement in the Ilkley Literature Festival, May 27-31, 1975 (Church House, Church Street, Ilkley)

  • The London Gallery: Famous British Cartoonists, N. La Cienega, Los Angeles, 19 May – 15 June 1975
    ‘Many [cartoons] such as those by George Adamson almost leave the field of illustrations to become technically speaking fine art’, Betje Howell, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, July 15th 1975

  • Market Print Gallery, Exeter, George Adamson Cartoons: Christmas Show, 1976?

  • Rural Preservation Association: Contemporary British Artists: An exhibition of work donated to the Rural Preservation Association, The University of Liverpool, Senate House, Abercromby Square, 1977: no. 30: Boy and Seal; no. 31: Man, Woman and Child

  • Market Print Gallery, Exeter, Etchings, 30th September - 31st October, 1978

  • Humorous Art, 1978

  • SouthEast Art Centres, Fantasy Books and Illustrations, 1979

  • Ilkley Literature Festival, Lord Gnome Show, The Manor House Ilkley, 25 May - 8 July 1979

  • The Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, Illustrations to Ted Hughes Poems, 1979. Exhibition organised by Mark Haworth-Booth, Assistant Keeper of Photographs, Department of Prints, Drawings and Photographs

  • City Art Gallery, Mosley Street, Manchester, The Art of Ted Hughes: An exhibition to mark the poet’s fiftieth birthday, devised and presented by Keith Sagar, 12 August - 7 September, 1980

  • The Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, Ninety-Eighth Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, Hopton St, Blackfriars, London, 17th January - 12th February, 1981, no. 122 John Ogden at the Piano (A); no. 143 Whit MOnday, St Mary’s, Wigan (E); no. 165 Filming the Onedin Line (E)

  • The Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, Ninety-Ninth Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, Hopton St, Blackfriars, London, 8th - 28th June, 1981, no. 22 A Journey (AE); no. 188 Killerton from the North (AE); no. 246 St Andrews Cathedral (D)

  • The Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, Centenary Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, Hopton St, Blackfriars, London, 20 March - 10 April, 1982, no. 102 Peter (D); no. 276 Peacocks (D & A); no. 280 Caerphilly Castle (D)

  • Hamiltons, London: Eye Art at Hamiltons,, 1 - 13 November 1982, drawings from the Denis Thatcher books of letters

  • The Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, 101st Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, Hopton St, Blackfriars, London, 30th October - 26th November, 1982, no. 96 Patricia Beer (D); no. 149 Study for a ‘A Dreadful Incident’ (drawing); no. 190 Peacock in the Wind (D & A)

  • Maison du Champ de Mars (now Maison des Associations): Exposition des artistes d’Exeter, Rennes, 6 - 29 May 1983: etchings exhibited: The Onedin Line, Peacocks, St Andrews Cathedral, Caerphilly Castle

  • The Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, 103rd Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, Hopton St, Blackfriars, London,, 26th October - 27th November, 1983, no. 80 The Gascoigne Girls (D)

  • Langton Gallery, Chelsea, London: The Penguin Book of Private Eye Cartoons, 2–15 November 1983

  • House of Humour and Satire: Biennial of Humour and Satire in the Arts, Gabrovo, Bulgaria, 1985

  • The Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, 111th Exhibition of Contemporary Prints, Bankside Gallery, Hopton St, Blackfriars, 18th September - 11th October, 1987, no. 87 Autumn ’86 (soft-ground etching/aquatint); no. 109 Summer ’86 (soft-ground etching/aquatint)

  • The Royal Festival Hall, London, Punch 150th Anniversary Exhibition, 11 October-17 November 1991

  • National Portrait Gallery, Eyetimes: 35 years of Private Eye, 1996, held in the Studio Gallery at the NPG; then from 1997 to 1998 toured to Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich; Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton; Victoria Art Gallery, Bath; Durham Art Gallery, Durham

  • A permanent display of photographs of a selection of Adamson’s work at the Imperial Hotel, Exeter, 1996

  • British Library, The Page is Printed: a Ted Hughes exhibition, 7 November 2003 until 24 February 2004

  • McLean Museum, Greenock, Inverclyde’s War: an exhibition to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of hostilities, August 2005: reproduction of several of Adamson’s wartime drawings of RAF Greenock

  • Cartoon Museum, London, Private Eye at 45: an exhibition to mark the 45th anniversary of the founding of Private Eye, 26 October 2006 to 4 February 2007: featuring two of Adamson’s drawings illustrating Auberon Waugh’s Diary and an unpublished drawing to mark Private Eye’s 21st birthday in 1983

  • Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Private Eye: The First 50 Years, 18 October 2011 to 8 January 2012: featuring Adamson’s cover drawing for One for the Road (by the authors of Dear Bill)

  • Victoria and Albert Museum, London, George W. Adamson: A Twentieth-Century Illustrator, 3 April – 30 September 2012

  • British Library (Folio Society Gallery), Picture This: Children’s Illustrated Classics, London, 4 October 2013 to 26 January 2014 : featuring the cover/jacket design for The Iron Man, as well as the cover/jacket rough

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