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Brian Wildsmith (born 1930) is a painter and children's book illustrator. He won the 1962 Kate Greenaway Medal for British children's book illustration, for his ''ABC''.〔 In all his books the illustrations, usually in brilliant color, have been as important as the text. For his contribution as a children's illustrator Wildsmith was a runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1966 and 1968.〔〔 ==Biography== Brian Wildsmith was born on 22 January 1930 in Penistone, a small market town in the West Riding, now in South Yorkshire, England. He was educated at the De La Salle College for Boys in Sheffield, but from the age of seventeen studied at the Barnsley School of Art (1946–1949). It was also while he was seventeen that he met Aurelie, daughter of the chef at Wentworth Woodhouse, whom he would later marry. From Barnsley he won a scholarship to the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where he studied for three years (1949–1952), and where Sir William Coldstream was among his teachers. On leaving the Slade School he did National Service in the British Army. In 1955 he married his wife Aurelie, and in the same year began teaching at Selhurst High School (1955–1957). At this time he began designing book jackets for the publisher John Murray and others, and line illustrations for children's books published by Faber and Faber, Penguin Books, Oxford University Press and others. His work as a line draughtsman continued from 1957 to 1964. From 1960 to 1965 he also taught for one day a week at Maidstone College of Art (now part of Kent Institute of Art & Design). Wildsmith's first love was for painting and he was eager to illustrate books in color. Mabel George of Oxford University Press, whom he first met in 1957, gave him his first opportunity when she commissioned from him, as an experiment, some illustrations for ''Arabian Nights'' (1961). When the experiment was a success, she commissioned ''ABC'' (1962), which won the Greenaway Medal.〔 Since then he has worked with a succession of sympathetic editors, including Antony Kamm and Ron Heapy. From 1971 Wildsmith lived in France at Castellaras, a hill village near Cannes and Grasse, with his wife, Aurelie, and their four children, Clare, Rebecca, Anna and Simon. His son, Simon (b. 1965), is a printmaker, and lives near Cahors. Wildsmith is considered as one of the greatest children's illustrators. The British Library Association recognised his first book, the wordless alphabet book ''ABC'' (Oxford, 1962), with the Kate Greenaway Medal for the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject.〔 Four of his works were subsequently commended runners-up for the Medal, all published by Oxford University Press: ''Oxford Book of Poetry for Children'', edited by Edward Blishen, 1963; ''The Lion and the Rat: A Fable'', by Jean de La Fontaine (1668), adapted from Aesop, also 1963; ''Birds'', 1967; and ''The Owl and the Woodpecker'', 1971.〔 Each page of ''Birds'' illustrates a term such as "gaggle of geese". ''The Owl and the Woodpecker'' is a story both written and illustrated by Wildsmith.〔 "Review of The Owl and the Woodpecker by Brian Wildsmith". Faith Draper. ''examiner.com'' 29 December 2010. Retrieved 2012-07-15.〕 The biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award conferred by the International Board on Books for Young People is the highest recognition available to a writer or illustrator of children's books. Wildsmith was one of two runners-up for the inaugural illustration award in 1966 and one of three runners-up in 1968.〔〔 In 1994 a Brian Wildsmith Art Museum was opened in Izu-kogen, in the south of Tokyo, Japan. About one and a half million people visited an exhibition of his work in 2005. Eight hundred of his paintings are on loan to the museum. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brian Wildsmith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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