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Charles William James Keeping (22 September 1924 - 16 May 1988) was a British illustrator, children's book author and lithographer. He first came to prominence with his illustrations of Rosemary Sutcliff's historical novels for children, and he created more than twenty picture books. He also illustrated the complete works of Charles Dickens for the Folio Society. Keeping won two Kate Greenaway Medals from the Library Association for the year's best children's book illustration, for his own story ''Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary'' (1967) and for a new edition (1981) of Alfred Noyes's poem "The Highwayman".〔〔 For the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005), a panel named his edition of ''The Highwayman'' one of the top ten winning works, which composed the ballot for a public election of the nation's favourite.〔 He also illustrated ''The God Beneath the Sea'', by Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen, which won the 1970 Carnegie Medal for children's literature. His lithographs have been exhibited in London, Italy, Austria and the U.S., including at the 1958 Fifth International Biennial of Contemporary Color Lithography in Cincinnati. He has prints in many collections, including at the Victoria and Albert Museum. For his contribution as a children's illustrator Keeping was a runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1974.〔〔 ==Early life== Charles Keeping was born and grew up in Lambeth, London, in a terraced house that housed three generations. He lived in an inner city environment of street markets and working horses that would inform his work his entire life. Charles and his elder sister, Grace, drew and made up stories from an early age, on surplus newsstand placards brought home by their father, Charles Keeping senior, who distributed newspapers to shops and newsstands in the area and boxed under the name Charlie Clarke.〔Douglas Martin, ''Charles Keeping: An Illustrator's Life'', Julia MacRae Books, 1993〕 He later described his upbringing as "comfortable working class".〔Douglas Martin, ''The Telling Line: Essays on fifteen contemporary book illustrators'', Julia McRae Books, 1989〕 He attended the Frank Bryant School for Boys in Kennington, North London,〔Brigid Peppin & Lucy Micklethwait, ''Dictionary of British Book Illustrators: The Twentieth Century'', John Murray, 1983, pp. 168-169〕 leaving at the minimum age of 14, after which two of his aunts paid for him to take a correspondence course in art. He took a job with the book printing company William Clowes & Sons, and after the outbreak of the Second World War joined Durrants, an engineering company producing munitions. He also spent some time working as a gasman.〔 In 1942, when he turned 18, he joined the Royal Navy as a wireless operator, serving four years.〔Douglas Martin, ''The Telling Line: Essays on fifteen contemporary book illustrators'', Julia MacRae Books, 1989〕 He returned to civvy street in 1946 with a profound depression and a belief that a head wound he had sustained had disfigured him on the inside as well as (temporarily) on the outside, and would cause him to turn evil like Dr Jekyll becoming Mr Hyde. He received treatment, was institutionalised for a time, and made a full recovery, but perhaps his sympathetic visual treatment of Grendel, the monster from ''Beowulf'', owes something to this period of his life.〔 He applied for a grant to study art at the Regent Street Polytechnic, but was initially turned down, so he read meters for a gas company during the day〔 and took art classes in the evening.〔 He finally got his grant and studied full-time from 1949 to 1952,〔 completing the two-year Intermediate Examination in six months before specialising in illustration and lithography.〔 His teachers included illustrators Nigel Lambourne and Stuart Tresilian, and lithographer Henry Trivick.〔 He also worked as a life model, and on one such occasion in 1949 his demonstration of the functions of the muscles of the back attracted the eye of Renate Meyer, a fellow student whom he married in 1952.〔 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「Charles Keeping」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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