George Worsley Adamson
 
Illustrator and humorist

Cartoons by George Adamson published from 1941 to 1994 in miscellaneous periodicals
Caption/description	Periodical/Issue	Date	Size	Nature
Long week-end: Cartoons by George Adamson: ‘--care to look through the colour magazines?’ (lady of the house in panelled, curtained room with mullioned window); ‘Look round for the bailer’ (in dinghy on lake in grounds of stately home, boat filling with water, house in background among trees); ‘We’ll have earned our game’ (wife mowing overgrown tennis court, husband with scythe, cat in long grass); ‘Pull up the ironing board or have a wheat germ candy?’ (couple on boards relaxing with weight watchers chart on kitchen cupboard, guest coming into room)	Countryman Vol. 79, pp. 124-125	Spring 1974	double page spread	pen & washed, first signed a, second unsigned, last two signed
Caution Left-Hand Drive	Measham Magazine Vol. 10, no. 9, p. 19	September 1955	1/2 page	line, signed
Shoes for men, driver tries at controls	Measham Magazine Vol. 10, no. 10, p. 10	October 1955	1/2 page	line, signed
‘Get it out of your head, Robinson, that Hitler’s tanks are made out of cardboard’	New Scientist Vol. /, no. /???	21-28/12/1978	small	line and half-tone, signed
‘I’m going to be a Moon module commander’ (child talking to Father Christmas)	New Scientist Vol. /, no. /???	21-28/12/1978	small	line and half-tone, signed
‘What do you mean you can see printed circuits, body scanners, video tapes, black holes and oil from the North Sea?’	New Scientist Vol. /, no. ???	12/1978	small	line and half-tone, signed
Troy horse in horse-box traffic	Oldie no. 46, p. 42	12/11/1993	small	line, signed
Punch à la plage: Quatre dessinateurs de Punch nous montrent comment ils voient les plages de la Manche, de l’Océan et de la Méditerranée. Ils se présentent également comme ils se voient eux-mêmes. Deauville: Adamson nous écrit qu’il est blond, mince; il a quarante deux ans, est dessinateur et illustrateur. Né à New York par un jour d’hiver il aime la neige. Mais il aime aussi rencontrer des gens qui éveillent en lui des idées, il est heureux dans de grands espaces, il ne déteste pas voyager et s’amuser. George W. Adamson qui fut engagé dans la R.A.F. en 1940, a néanmoins trouvé le temps pendant ses heures de repos de continuer à dessiner. Il est souvent distrait comme le montre son portrait ... Crowd at Deauville: paddling, waiter, couple sipping champagne, old lady with binoculars, golfer, man with baguette, airplane, jockey riding, casino building and roulette wheel. The other artists commissioned were Ionicus (La Baule), Sheila Dunn (Biarritz) and Anton (Cannes).	La Revue des voyages no. 21, p. 24	Summer 1956	2/3 page	line, signed
Punch à la plage: Self-portrait of the artist, bespectacled, dipping pen in his tea	La Revue des voyages no. 21, p. 24	Summer 1956	small	line, signed
‘... How great was my fortune that this day I should find in the wreck a typewriter, a short-wave transmitting set and an up-to-date list of literary agents in London ...’ (Robinson Crusoe with typewriter, transmitter, two cats, parrot)	The Sketch Vol. CCXXII, no. 2888, Summer Number, p. 570	15/06/1955	small	pen & wash, signed
Square mousehole and mouse	The Spectator Vol. 272, no. 8638, p. 37	05/02/1994	small	line, signed
Renegade rat not following Pied Piper of Hamelin	The Spectator Vol. 273, no. 8670, p. 33	10/09/1994	small	pen & wash, signed
Butler holding football for young boy (‘Please indicate a Little Fauntleroy-type lad standing with his uniformed governess at the other end of the room. Show the boy preparing to run toward the football while his governess looks on sympathetically.’)	Sports Illustrated	1956
Car occupants looking at monument with the description: ‘Reading Time 2 1/2 mins’	Sports Illustrated	1956
An R.A.F. Artist Looks at the U.S. (an impression of life in the USA drawn by GWA as pilot trainee after stay at Lovefield, Dallas, Texas)	The Star Weekly, Toronto p. 8	15/11/1941	small	line, signed
Doggies being walked on leads coming out of the window of sedan chair	Tatler and Bystander Vol. CCX, no. 2732a, Christmas number, p. 44	19/11/1953	half page	line, signed

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