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Peter Blake Biography
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1932 |
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Born June 25 in Dartford, Kent, England
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1946 - 1951 |
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Studied at Gravesend Technical College & School of Art London
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1953 - 1956 |
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Studied at Royal College of Art London
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1964 - 1967 |
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Taught at Royal College of Art
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1967 |
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Made cover design for Beatles' "Sergreant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
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1970 |
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Used watercolour to illustrate Lewis Carroll’s "Through the Looking-Glass"
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1975 |
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Founder of the Brotherhood of Ruralists
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1981 |
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Becomes a Royal Academician
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1983 |
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Major retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery
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Lives and works in London
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2007
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Peter Blake: A Retrospective, Tate Liverpool
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2006
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Peter Blake: 1975-2005, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm
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2006
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Peter Blake Prints and Sculpture, The Harley Gallery, Welbeck
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2001 - 2006
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Alphabet, York College of Further and Higher Education; touring to University College, Northampton; Michael Tippett Centre, Bath; Library Gallery, Kidderminster; Kirkby Gallery; Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport; Bersham Heritage Centre, Museum of Cannock Chase, Hednesford; Pittencrieff House Museum, Dunfermline; Wakefield Art Gallery, Bedales Gallery, Petersfield; Ashfield School, Kirkby in Ashfield; Central Library, Gateshead; The Babylon Gallery, Ely; Mill Green Museum and Mill, Hatfield; Bellshill Cultural Centre; Whitstable Museum and Art Gallery; The London Road Gallery, Northwich; Aberystwyth Arts Centre; Towneley Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Burnley; Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead; St Paul’s School, Barnes; Arts Complex, Solihull; Wingfield Arts, Mansfield Museum and Art Gallery; The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent; Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk; Haworth Art Gallery, Accrington; St Davids Hall, Cardiff – tour continues, further venues to be confirmed (solo)
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2005
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Peter Blake: 1-10 (Collages, Constructions, Drawings & Sculpture) & The Marcel Duchamp Paintings, Waddington Galleries, London
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2005
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New Prints by Peter Blake, The Charing X Gallery, London
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2003
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Peter Blake: Commercial Art, The London Institute Gallery, London (graphic design)
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2003
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Peter Blake: Sculpture, The London Institute Gallery, London (sculpture)
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2003
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Peter Blake, Artiscope (Zaira Mis), Brussels (solo)
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2002
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Over the Rainbow, Harley Gallery, Welbeck (solo)
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2002
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Sir Peter Blake/And Now We Are 70, Paul Morris Gallery, New York (solo)
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2000
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Peter Blake: About Collage, Tate Liverpool (solo)
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1999
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A Cabinet of Curiosities from the Collections of Peter Blake, Morley Gallery, London (solo)
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1996 - 1997
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Now We Are 64: Peter Blake at the National Gallery, National Gallery, London; touring to Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (solo)
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1995
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Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris (solo)
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1993
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The Tabernacle Cultural Centre, Machynlleth (silk-screen prints) (solo)
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1992
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Govinda Gallery, Washington D.C. (Eric Clapton sketches) (solo)
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1990
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Wetterling Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden (solo)
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1990
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Waddington Galleries, London (solo)
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1988
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Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo (solo)
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1986 - 1987
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Watermans Art Centre, Brentford, Middlesex; touring to Turnpike Gallery, Leigh (solo)
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1984
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Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris (solo)
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1983
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Tate Gallery, London (retrospective); touring to Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (solo)
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1980
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Galleria Documenta, Turin (drawings and prints) (solo)
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1979
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Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames (drawings and prints) (solo)
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1978
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Waddington Graphics, London (solo)
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1977
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Waddington and Tooth Galleries, London (solo)
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1974
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Natalie Stern Gallery, London (print retrospective) (solo)
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1973 - 1974
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Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; touring to Kunstverein Hamburg; Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (solo)
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1972
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Waddington Galleries, London (watercolours and drawings (solo)
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1970
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Ashgate Gallery, Farnham (solo)
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1969
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Robert Fraser Gallery, London (solo)
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1969
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City Art Gallery, Bristol (solo)
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1969
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Leslie Waddington Prints, London (solo)
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1965
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Robert Fraser Gallery, London (solo)
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1962
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Portal Gallery, London (solo)
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| Literature |
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2006
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‘September’, DACS 2006 calender
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2005
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Grimwood, Brian: ‘Waxworks to Cossacks’, The Journal of the Associations of Illustrators, February/March, pp. 14-21
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2004
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Bennett, Oliver: ‘Post-war excitement: the attraction of collecting Pop Art’, The Independent, 20 March, pp. 10-11
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2003
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Harrison, David: ‘Getting back to nature’, Bristol Evening Post, 11 February,
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2002
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Roberts, Eric: ‘An old master’s pick of the pops’, Yorkshire Post, 28 August, p.13
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2001
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Lacey, Hester (interview): 'How we met: Peter Blake & Rick Stein', , 4 March, p.62
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2000
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Johnson, Holly: 'Meeting the Magician', Modern Painters, Spring, pp.90-94
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1999
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Dutt, Robin: 'Custodian of curiosities', Evening Standard, 8 October, p.33
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1998
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Lyttelton, Celia: 'My greatest work of art', High Life (British Airways), May
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1997
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The 20th-Century Art Book, Phaidon Press, London
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1996
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Hyatt, Derek: 'What is Real?', Modern Painters, Spring, pp.106–107
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1995
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Lambirth, Andrew: 'Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield, Howard Hodgkin: Paintings from the 60's and 70's', What's On in London, 15–22 March
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1994
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Barnes, Rachel: 'Have a nice day, Mr Blake', The Guardian, 18 March, pp.6
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1993
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Bernard, Kate: 'Tempera fugit', Harpers & Queen, March, pp.150–53,154
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1992
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Davies, Hunter: 'Portrait of the artist (a work in progress)', The Independent, 19 May
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1991
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McHugh, Fionnuala: 'Blake's Progress', The Telegraph Weekend Magazine, 5 January
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1990
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'Film Star Marilyn is just Peter's palette', Western Daily Press (Bristol), 21 February
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1989
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Brown, Jane: 'The Brotherhood of Ruralists and their friends in the Secret Garden', Hortus, Spring, no.9
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1988
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'Art' Column, Asahi Journal (Japan), 17 June, p.44
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1987
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Kemp, John: 'Peter Blake talks to John Kemp', Artseen, no.15, pp.8–10
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1986
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Brown, John: 'Blake's Heaven', London Gentleman, March, p.27
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1985
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'Peter the Painter', (Peter Blake talking to David Litchfield and Celia Lyttelton), Ritz, March
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1984
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D.M.Z: 'Queer Goings on at Sadlers Wells', Artline, April, vol.II, no.1
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1983
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'Rocking at the Tate', The Standard, 6 January
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1982
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von Joel, Mike (interview): 'Peter Blake: In Retrospect', Art Line Newspaper, no.2, November, pp.5–7
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1981
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Vaizey, Marina: 'Elegy for a country garden' (review), The Sunday Times, 19 April, p.41
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1980
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Dury, Ian (interviewed on Peter Blake): New Musical Express, 19 July, pp.27–28
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1979
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Fuller, Peter: 'Peter Blake meets Peter Fuller', Aspects, Spring, no.6
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1978
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Blake, Peter: 'Contrariwise', Aspects, no.3, pp.1–2
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1977
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Vaizey, Marina: 'Jim Dine and Peter Blake' (review), Arts Review, 15 April, vol.29, no.8, pp.253–254
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1976
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Overy, Paul: 'Superstars for a day: the rise of Pop art in England' (review), The Times, 2 June, p.12
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1975
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Greenwood, Michael: 'British Painting '74' (review), Artscanada, March, no.196/7, pp.29–34
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1974
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Metken, Sigrid: 'Facteur Chevals Posttasche: die Bildpostkarte in der Kunst', Das Kunstwerk, January, vol.27, no.1, p.7
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1973
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Von Graevenitz, Antje: 'Museen und Galerien: Niederlande' (review), Pantheon, January/February/March, vol.32, no.1, p.98
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1972
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Russell, John: 'Best of Boys' (review), The Sunday Times, 10 December, p.37
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1971
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Denvir, Bernard: 'London Letter' (review), Art International, February, vol.15, no.2, pp.42–45
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1970
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Coleman, Roger: 'Peter Blake's Nostalgia' (review), Art and Artists, January, vol.4, no.10, pp.30–32
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1969
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Field, Simon: 'The pleasure principle' (review), Art and Artists, May, vol.4, no.2, pp.56–57
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1968
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Roberts, Keith: 'Blake, Dine, Hamilton/Arts Council Gallery' (review), Varsity, 20 January, p.17
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1967
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Overy, Paul: 'On the streets' (review), The Listener, 13 July, vol.78, no.1998, p.45
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1966
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Baro, Gene: 'London: a busy, vigorous season' (review), Arts Magazine, January, vol.40, no.3, pp.45–49
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1965
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Russell, John: 'London/NYC: the two-way traffic', Art in America, April, vol.53, no.2, pp.134,136
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1964
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Roberts, Keith: The Burlington Magazine (review), March, vol.106, no.732, pp.137–142
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1963
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Nordland, Gerald: 'Europe in California' (review), Arts Magazine, vol.37, no.9,
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1962
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Farr, Dennis: 'The John Moores Liverpool Exhibition', The Burlington Magazine, January, vol.104, no.706, pp.30–31
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1961
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Ironside, Robin: 'The Prize Paintings' (review), The Sunday Times, 19 November, p.38
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1960
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'Is it art?' (review of I.C.A. exhibition), Daily Sketch, 20 January
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1959
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Blake, Peter: 'Supermidget with Mini-man' (cartoon strip), Ark, no.24, Winter, p.44
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1958
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Melville, Robert: Architectural Review (review), April, vol.123, no.735, pp.278–279
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1956
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Wallis, Neville: 'Designs for tomorrow', The Observer, 12 August, p.10
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