Anthony Eyton

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Anthony John Plowden Eyton RA (born May 17, 1923 in Teddington , Great Britain ) is a British post-war painter and former art college teacher. His style is attributed to a late post-impressionism .

life and work

Anthony Eyton studied fine arts at Reading University before joining the Army from 1942 to 1947 during World War II . After demobilization, he spent two more years in Egypt . He received his training as a painter until 1950 at Camberwell College of Arts (Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts), where William Coldstream , Claude Rogers and John Dodgson had a great influence on him.

In 1951 he received an Abbey Major Scholarship for Italy, spent there until 1952 at the British School in Rome and toured the country. In the next decades he traveled to many countries, such as Hong Kong, Ethiopia and the Dead Sea. From 1955 he taught himself at Camberwell College.

In 1958 he was elected a member of the London Group , which sees itself partly as an artistic counter-position to the Royal Academy of Arts. Further memberships existed in the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) in Bristol until 2004 and the Royal Watercolor Society . For two years from 1969 onwards he was Head of Painting at St. Lawrence College in Kingston , Ontario, Canada. Admission to the Royal Academy of Arts (RAA) as a candidate took place in 1976, he became a full member in 1986. From 1988 he taught art at the Royal Academy Schools .

He received several commissions ( commissions ), including he created documentary images to Gurkha -Regimentern in the Far East, in the Imperial War Museum , were shown for the 100th anniversary of the British Embassy in Addis Ababa (a hospital foyer design or a stay in a protected natural park Eden Project), whose landscape paintings were later presented in a group exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum .

He had his first solo exhibition in 1955 at St. George's Gallery in London. Exhibitions at the New Art Center, London (1959), the New Grafton Gallery, London (1973), Serpentine Gallery (1976), Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic Gallery (1978), South London Gallery and the Hayward Gallery followed in addition to the exhibitions at Framework of the Royal Academy of Arts. It was also shown at the Tate Gallery in 1984 in The Hard-Won Image exhibition. Some of these exhibitions are considered key exhibitions. The Browse & Darby gallery in London included it in their program and showed it several times in solo and group exhibitions. Artfacts.net names a ranking of 1,922 among British artists as of 2018.

In 2005 Jenny Pery published her first extensive monograph with 100 illustrations. His work shows influences from Italian Renaissance painting according to an image description by Open Windows, Spitalfields of the Tate Gallery, post-impressionism and painting by the London Group. His subjects include landscapes, interiors, vedute and still life.

Prizes and awards

  • 1951: Abbey Major Scholarship, stay abroad in Italy
  • 1971: Kingston-Whig Award, Canada
  • 1972: John Moore's Competition Prize
  • 1976: Admission to the RAA
  • 1975: First prize at the 2nd British International Drawing Biennale, Middlesbrough
  • 1986: Appointment as a full member of the RAA as Royal Academician, 1998: Senior Academician
  • 1989: Charles Wollaston Award, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

Works (selection)

  • Ladies in the Shower, Dead Sea , oil on canvas, 34.5 × 30.75 cm
  • Garden , oil on canvas, 90.5 × 71.5 cm
  • Women at the Western Wall, Jerusalem (Women at the Western Wall)
  • A Kitchen Range , around 1984, oil on canvas, 146 × 180.3 cm, RAA inventory no. 03/1197, submitted for admission to the Royal Academy of Arts
  • The Annenberg Courtyard , 2002, pastel on cardboard, 56 × 77 cm, RAA inventory no. 07/2865
  • Open Windows, Spitalfields , 1976–1981, oil on canvas, 243.8 × 172.7 cm, Tate inventory no. T03339

Public collections

literature

  • Jenny Pery: Eyton's Eye. Anthony Eyton, a life in painting. Royal Academy of Arts, London 2005, ISBN 1-903973-71-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Anthony Eyton RA , The London Group, accessed February 16, 2019.
  2. ↑ Illustration at Tate .
  3. ↑ Eyton, Anthony in the Government Art Collection, accessed February 16, 2019.
  4. ↑ Anthony Eyton on the Royal West of England Academy website, accessed February 16, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Eyton, Anthony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eyton, Anthony John Plowden (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British painter and art college teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Teddington , United Kingdom