Norman Weaver

Norman Weaver (1913–1989) FSIAD, FZS, was an English artist and photographer who illustrated scientific texts, advertisements and postage stamps and drew book covers for action authors such as Alistair MacLean and Desmond Bagley. During the Second World War he worked as a cartographer for the Allies and was briefly employed as "General Eisenhower's personal map-maker". In 1983 he retired to the Isle of Wight, where he painted large watercolour landscapes of the island and continued to pursue his interest in photography.

A true Cockney, born within the sound of Bow Bells in London, Weaver won a scholarship to the Hammersmith School of Art as a teenager but was unable to complete the course because the grant did not cover his living expenses. He began work in the cabinet-making department of Heal's, a furniture shop on Tottenham Court Road, but moved after two years to become a manuscript writer and calligrapher in another department. During this period, he was attending evening classes in art and was able to win a scholarship to the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London, where he became a teacher after he completed his course shortly before the Second World War.

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