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Longlisted for the Berger Art History prize 2016 Kenneth Rowntree has always been highly regarded by those familiar with his work. The essays in this catalogue, which embrace new research and scholarship, reveal him to be an artist of great scope and variety. His earlywork reflects the inspiration and creative dialogue that came out of his friendship with Eric Ravilious (19031942) on account of whom Rowntree moved to Great Bardfield during the 1940s. During this period he was particularly preoccupied with Kenneth Clark's Recording Britain project. At the end of the war he joined the teaching staff at the Royal College of Art. In 1951 he was commissioned to undertake murals for the Lion and Unicorn Pavilion for the Festival of Britain. As Professor of Fine Art in Newcastle (19591980) he was at the epicentre of an important northern school of modernism that revolved around his friends Victor Pasmore (19081988) and Richard Hamilton (19222011). Even in retirement, his work, in its return t

Kenneth Rowntree

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      Publisher Liss Llewellyn
      Published 3/31/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780993088414
      978-0993088414
      ISBN-10 0993088414

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      Book Synopsis
      Longlisted for the Berger Art History prize 2016 Kenneth Rowntree has always been highly regarded by those familiar with his work. The essays in this catalogue, which embrace new research and scholarship, reveal him to be an artist of great scope and variety. His earlywork reflects the inspiration and creative dialogue that came out of his friendship with Eric Ravilious (19031942) on account of whom Rowntree moved to Great Bardfield during the 1940s. During this period he was particularly preoccupied with Kenneth Clark's Recording Britain project. At the end of the war he joined the teaching staff at the Royal College of Art. In 1951 he was commissioned to undertake murals for the Lion and Unicorn Pavilion for the Festival of Britain. As Professor of Fine Art in Newcastle (19591980) he was at the epicentre of an important northern school of modernism that revolved around his friends Victor Pasmore (19081988) and Richard Hamilton (19222011). Even in retirement, his work, in its return t

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