Rodney Gladwell
Rodney Gladwell (1928–1979) was a British artist born in Didcot, Oxfordshire, England whose paintings "hover between abstraction and figuration and play on this ambiguity".[1]
Between 1949-1950, he followed in the foot steps of one of the greatest figurative painters of the 20th Century Amedeo Modigliani and studied in Paris at the Académie Colarossi. His work varied but a continual theme was his "heavily stylised female nudes".[2] He exhibited in London and Paris with the Piccadilly Gallery, before being taken on by the gallery owner Lucy Wertheim and towards the end of his career the noted Swiss dealer .[3]
In the 1960s, he undertook several large commissions to paint extensive murals for Sussex University (where he was later given a retrospective exhibition) and the Georgian Club in London.[2] His work is held by the Arts Council of Great Britain and University of Johannesburg.[4] In the 1970s, his work fell out of favour and he disappeared from the art scene.
References[]
- ^ Spalding, Frances (1991). 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club. p. 207. ISBN 9781851491063.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Buckman, David (1998). Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945. Bristol: Art Dictionaries. p. 486. ISBN 9780953260904.
- ^ http://www.walterfeilchenfeldt.ch/index.html
- ^ "Gladwell, Rodney". Arts Council Collection.
- 1979 deaths
- 1928 births
- 20th-century English painters
- English male painters
- English muralists
- Académie Colarossi alumni