Bernard Adeney
Bernard Adeney | |
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Born | London, England | 2 August 1878
Died | 4 April 1966 | (aged 87)
Nationality | English |
Alma mater | |
Known for | Painting and textile design |
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Bernard Adeney (2 August 1878 – 4 April 1966) was an English painter and textile designer. He was a founding member of the London Group, an artists' exhibiting society, and was its president from 1921-1923. Between 1930 and 1947, he was head of the textile school at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, where he had taught since 1903.[1] One of his most notable works is the painting Toy Sailing Boats (1911), which formed part of a seven-piece collection of panels painted for Borough Polytechnic under the direction of Roger Fry.[2] Other works include Edge of a Wood,[3] Barley Fields,[4] West Wittering,[5] Pond and Trees, Farm Buildings and The Parade, Cowes.[6]
Adeney was born on 2 August 1878 in London, the son of Canon W. F. Adeney. Started his art training in St.John's Wood Art School when only nine years old,[7]than he studied at the Royal Academy, the Académie Julian in Paris and later the Slade School of Fine Art.[1] He married the painter Thérèse Lessore in 1909 and they were divorced in 1921.[8] He subsequently married fellow painter Noël Gilford.[1]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Bernard Adeney". Tate Online. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
- ^ Clare A. P. Willsdon (2000). Mural painting in Britain 1840-1940: image and meaning. Oxford University Press. p. 283. ISBN 978-0-19-817515-5. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
- ^ 'The London Group: Recent Developments In British Painting', The Times, 6 November 1951.
- ^ 'London Group: Works by Young Artists', The Times, 3 November 1953.
- ^ 'Art Exhibitions: The National Society', The Times, 11 February 1932.
- ^ Mr. Bernard Adeney, The Times, 24 October 1928.
- ^ "Bernard Adeney".
- ^ Baron, Wendy (January 2011). "Sickert, Walter Richard (1860 - 1943)". The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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