Andrew Timothy Davidson (born 13 May 1958) is a
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artist. His book illustrations include two novels by
Ted Hughes
Edward James "Ted" Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest wri ...
, ''
The Iron Man'' (1985 edition, orig. 1968) and its sequel ''
The Iron Woman'' (1993). Another is a 2002 edition of Jack London's ''
The Call of the Wild
''The Call of the Wild'' is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Bu ...
'' (orig. 1903).
"The call of the wild"
(2002, full record). Library of Congress Online Catalog. Retrieved 2017-05-31. Some time after that, Andrew illustrated for the book Tales of the Peculiar (orig. 2016) by Ransom Riggs
Ransom Riggs (born February 3, 1979) is an American writer and filmmaker best known for the book ''Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children''.
Early life and education
Riggs was born in Maryland in 1979 on a 200-year-old farm, and grew up in ...
.
Andrew Davidson has two general artistic styles, one of them is more minimalist
In visual arts, music and other media, minimalism is an art movement that began in post–World War II in Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s. Prominent artists associated with minimalism include Don ...
and colorful. On the other side, for his most famous illustrations he has a more detailed style, he tends to use a scale of grays when drawing this way.
Hughes and Davidson won the Kurt Maschler Award
The Kurt Maschler Award (1982 to 1999) was a British literary award that annually recognised one "work of imagination for children, in which text and illustration are integrated so that each enhances and balances the other." Winning authors and ill ...
for ''The Iron Man'' in 1985. The British award annually recognised one "work of imagination for children, in which text and illustration are integrated so that each enhances and balances the other."George Adamson
George Alexander Graham Adamson MBE (3 February 1906 – 20 August 1989), also known as the ''Baba ya Simba'' ("Father of Lions" in Swahili), was a Kenyan wildlife conservationist and author. He and his wife, Joy, were depicted in the film ''B ...
in its 1968 first edition.)
Davidson has designed postage stamp
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s for the UK's Royal Mail
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, including the 1993 "Sherlock Holmes
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" set,
References
External links
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Andrew Davidson
at agency The Artworks (theartworksinc.com)
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1958 births
British illustrators
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
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