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The School of London
OTHER ARTISTS
PART 2
- Paula Rego (b. 1935)
artist index
- Tony Scherman (b. 1950 )
TONY SCHERMAN
Lady Banquo, 1994-5
encaustic on canvas
source
"Tony Scherman was born in Toronto, Ontario, 1950. Between 1955 and 1959, he lived in Paris, France before moving to London where he attended the Bryan Shaw School of Painting and Drawing from 1968 to 1971. He conducted Post Graduate Studies at the Royal College of Art (1971-74), and continued to live and paint in London until 1976 when he returned to Canada, settling in Toronto." (Royal Bank)
TONY SCHERMAN
The Location of Fruit #7, 1990
Royal Bank Art Collection
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- Chris Thomas
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CHRIS THOMAS
Trevalga from the top field
oil on board
Chris Thomas studied Fine Art at Reading University in the late 60s under the tutelage of Claude Rogers, Ray Atkins and John Wonnacott. He has lived in a small village next to the ocean for the last thirty years where his work has both documented rural life and explored the wild and rugged landscape of North Cornwall.
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BRETT WHITELEY
Woman in Bath, 1964
oil, collage, tempura, and
polyvinyl acetate emulsion on board
- Brett Whiteley Australia, 1939-1992
Australian painter, Brett Whiteley, was born in Sydney on April 7, 1939. He studied at the Julian Ashton art school in Sydney and spent several months in Italy on a traveling art scholarship. During the 1960s, he was an instant success in the London art world and exhibited with Marlborough Galleries. He was admired for the sensuous power of his paintings and his expressive draftsmanship. In 1985 Whiteley bought a warhouse in Sydney and converted it into a studio and exhibition space, he lived there after further renovations from 1988 to 1992, the year he died in Thirroul, New South Wales. His studio, The Brett Whiteley Studio, is open to the public and offers a variety of programs, including exhibitions of the artist's paintings, drawings, sculpture and graphics.
Image above: Portrait of Francis Bacon, 1989
oil on canvas, 146.8 x 132 cm
Marlborough Fine Art
BRETT WHITELEY
My God, my God...why...., 1979-80
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- Victor Willing born in Alexandria, Egypt (1929-1988)
VICTOR WILLING
Circulator, 1986
oil/canvas, 51 x 51 cm
- John Wonnacott b. 1940
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JOHN WONNACOTT
Studio Conversation I, 1993-4
London, Tate Gallery
John Wonnacott was born in London. He trained at the Slade School from 1958-63 before moving to Southend in Essex where he still lives and paints in a studio overlooking the Thames Estuary.
JOHN WONNACOTT
The Mathematician One, 1990-91
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