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07899062521 American artist and printmaker closely associated with pop art in the early 1960s, who was made an honorary Royal Academician in 2015. Born in Ohio where he studied in Cincinnati, he moved to New York in 1959. He has had a number of major retrospectives including at the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney… Read more »
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Yaacov Agam (b1929)
Yaacov Agam is an Israeli sculptor and artist best known for his op art and kinetic works. He trained in Jerusalem before moving to Switzerland to continue his studies in 1949, where he became influenced by Max Bill. Agam moved on to Paris in 1951 where he still lives today, holding his first solo exhibition… Read more »
Michael Rothenstein RA (1908-1993)
Michael Rothenstein was an English printmaker, painter and teacher, born in 1908 in London. He was the younger son of the artist Sir William Rothenstein. and studied at the Chelsea Polytechnic and at the Central School from 1924. His first solo exhibition was held in 1931 at the Warren Gallery and he had many later shows… Read more »
Patrick Procktor RA (1936-2003)
A prominent British 20th century artist who was born in Dublin and attended the Slade School of Art. He had his first solo show in 1963 and the following year featured alongside David Hockney,John Hoyland and Bridget Riley in a show at the Whitechapel Gallery that further increased his profile. Influenced by pop art as well… Read more »
Peter Phillips (b1939)
One of the pioneers of British pop art who studied at the Royal College of Art alongside David Hockney, Allen Jones and R B Kitaj, graduating in 1952. He won a Harkness Fellowship to study in New York where he exhibited alongside the best names in American pop art, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and James… Read more »
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi CBE, RA (1924-2005)
Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi CBE, RA was a Scottish sculptor and artist who studied at the Edinburgh College of Art, St Martins, Slade School and University College London. From 1947-9 he worked in Paris, meeting Georges Braque and Fernand Leger – a period which was to influence his later work. Moving back to London he… Read more »
Bruce McLean (b1944)
Bruce McLean is a leading light in contemporary British Art. Born in 1944 he studied at Glasgow School of Art (1961-63) and at St. Martin’s in London (1963-66), under Anthony Caro, where he rebelled against the teaching methods and took on his own unconventional approach: making sculpture out of rubbish , performance art and producing photographic works… Read more »
Ronald Brooks Kitaj RA (1932-2007)
Born in Cleveland, USA, Kitaj’s work has been the subject of both admiration and controversy. Much respected by the likes of Hockney, Freud and Auerbach, in 1984 he became the first American since Sargent to be elected to the Royal Academy. Kitaj studied in New York in 1950-1952 before moving to the UK where he attended the… Read more »
Allen Jones RA (b1937)
Painter, printmaker and sculptor, his work has been exhibited worldwide for the last 40 years and is the subject of a major retrospective at the Royal Academy in late 2015. Jones studied at Hornsey College of Art from 1955 to 1959 and the Royal College of Art from 1959 to 1960. He went on to… Read more »
Sir Peter Blake CBE, RA (b1932)
Sir Peter Blake CBE, RA is one of the best known British pop artists, who trained at the Gravesend School of Art followed by the Royal College of Art. Perhaps best known for co-creating the album design for The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, he is now in his 80s and still producing… Read more »
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