Giles [Carl Ronald Giles O. B. E.] ‘No Camping’, featuring the Giles family, 1951

Giles [Carl Ronald Giles O. B. E.]

‘No Camping’, featuring the Giles family, with Mother glowering at Father, and a Traveller family, mixed media on board, inscribed by Giles to mount: ‘To H. K., FROM GILES ‘51.’, image 23 x 52 cm.

***One of the nation’s best-loved cartoons, the Giles Family series both reflected and reacted to post-war British life.

Gifted by the artist to his friend Harold Keeble, who worked as an assistant editor of The Daily Express, and editor of the Sunday Express from 1952 - 54. Subsequently gifted to the vendor.