Charles Keeping

Charles William James Keeping (22 September 1924 – 16 May 1988) was a British illustrator, children's book author and lithographer.

Quotes

• I couldn't do them if I didn't know horses lived behind them.
  • When asked by his wife how he could draw so many bricks (in a series of drawings of horse stables). Quoted at The Keeping Gallery

Quotes of others about Keeping

• His formidable originality within the picture-book convention may not have been altogether apparent to Keeping himself, which is both a strength and a weakness: the strength that he could communicate with unrivalled emotional intensity — but possibly only with one child in twenty; the concomitant weakness is that there was not a lot he could do to broaden this minority appeal and ensure that his books remained in print over longer periods. ~ Douglas Martin in Charles Keeping: an illustrator's life (1993) he is a good auther

External links

• The Keeping Gallery (Official site)
• Two lithographs by Charles Keeping
• Frankenstein illustrations by Charles Keeping
• Extract from Elidor by Alan Garner, including illustrations by Keeping (PDF document)
• Charles Keeping on artnet