(1) "Venice Café," pastel,
signed/dated 1989, 18" x 12" sight,
25" x 18" mat.
(2) "Mooring Post on Riva Lake, Garda (Italy),"
pastel, artist label verso, 12" x 9"
sight, 16" x 12" mat.
Condition: Both are excellent.
Biography: The artist was born 1922 in Sheffield. He
studied art at the Sheffield College of art
and at the Royal College of Art under the
guidance of Carel Weight.
From 1950-87 he was a lecturer in painting
and drawing at the Cleveland College of Art
in Hartlepool. In 1957 he was included in
Jack Beddington's volume Young Artists of Promise and in the following year he became a member
of the Royal Society of British Artists.
He has exhibited extensively at the Royal
Academy, The Royal Society of Portrait painters,
The Leicester Galleries and elsewhere in
mixed exhibitions. He received a number of
important commissions in his career as an
artist, most notably in 1992 he painted 2
paintings for the Sultan of Oman.
There were a number of important one man
exhibitions - The Gray Art Gallery Hartlepool
in 1967; Billingham Art Gallery in 1970;
and Middlesbrough Art Gallery in 1984. His
work is now in many public and private collections
both in the UK and overseas.
Provenance: The artist's studio sale in 2004..
(1) NFS
(2) $ 295.00 inclusive of S/H/I*
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