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Ainsworth, Edgar [1905-1975. UK. Poster Designer/Illustrator]
Ainsworth, Edgar [1905-1975. UK. Poster Designer/Illustrator]
Edgar Ainsworth was born in 1905 and studied at the Royal College of Art in London, England. He subsequently worked as an etcher, poster designer and illustrator. His paintings were exhibited at Goupil Gallery, Manchester City Art Gallery, the New English Art Club and the Royal Academy. Ainsworth designed several posters for the Empire Marketing Board, at least one poster for the London & North Eastern Railway - ‘Whitby It’s Quicker by Rail’ (1933), and at least two posters for Shell. Ainsworth was also art editor of ‘Picture Post’ and ‘Leader’. While art editor of ‘Picture Post’, Ainsworth commissioned Mervyn Peake to report on the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in a series of drawings. Ainsworth, himself, visited the camp and recorded what he saw in illustrations for ‘Picture Post’. Ainsworth died in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire in 1975
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