![]() ![]() This was because Hughes’s manuscript, which Faber sent to Adamson in 1960, bore a Massachusetts address the poems were written during Hughes and Plath’s years in America. For more details of his career see Adamson and his family lived in Exeter, but his illustrations for Hughes’s first children’s book, Meet My Folks!, have an American feel. As a full-time illustrator and cartoonist he illustrated well over 80 books. ![]() After wartime service for the RAF, for whom he served as an official war artist, Adamson lectured in engraving and illustration at Exeter College of Art. He received his art training in England, at the Mining and Technical College, Wigan, and afterwards specialized in aquatint, etching and drypoint at Liverpool College in Art. Some of these images have been added to the current Ted Hughes exhibition on the first floor of the English Faculty.Īdamson was born in the Bronx, New York. Thanks to the generosity of his son John, Pembroke’s collection includes the original artwork for all three books and associated correspondence. ![]() Ted Hughes was one of the great writers for children, and his first three children’s books, Meet My Folks!, The Iron Man and How the Whale Became all benefited from a collaboration with the illustrator George Worsley Adamson (1913-2005). ![]() Image credit: cover of the ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes, illustrated by George Adamson ![]()
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