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Keith Vaughan Biography
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1912 |
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Born Selsey Bill, Sussex
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1931-8 |
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Works for advertising agency Lintas, painting in spare time
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1939 |
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Spends a year painting in the country
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1941 - 1946 |
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Army service, works as a clerk and German interpreter meets Graham Sutherland, John Craxton and John Minton
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1946 - 1948 |
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Teaches at Camberwell School of Art
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1951 |
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Commissioned to paint mural for the Dome of Discovery at the Festival of Britain
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1948 - 1952 |
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Teaches at Central School of Art, shares a house with John Minton
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1952 |
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Moves to Hampstead, first sees the work of De Stael at the Matthiesen Gallery, London
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1959 |
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Travels to USA visiting Iowa (where he has a residency), Mexico and Chicago.
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1964 |
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Made Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art
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1965 |
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Holidays in North Africa, with major effects on subsequent work. Awarded the CBE
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1965 - 1977 |
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Lives and works in London, teaching at the Slade and spending weekends and longer periods in the Essex counryside
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1977 |
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Died 4th November in his studio
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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1981
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Images of Man, Geffrye Museum, London and Birmingham City Art Gallery
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1970
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Retrospective Exhibition, University of York
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1963
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British Pavilion, Sao Paolo Bienal, Brazil (Drawings)
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1962
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Retrospective Exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
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1959
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State University of Iowa, USA
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1958
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Retrospective Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
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1957
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Retrospective Exhibition, Arts Council touring exhibition
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1953, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959
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Leicester Galleries, London
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1952, 1955, 1957, 1966
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Durlacher Bros, New York, USA
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1950, 1952
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Redfern Gallery, London
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1944,1946, 1948
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Reid and Lefevre, London
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| Literature |
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1990
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Keith Vaughan his Life and Work, Malcolm Yorke, Constable, London
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1989
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Keith Vaughan Journals 1939-1977, ed Alan Ross, John Murray, London
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1981
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Images of Man, John Nicholas Ball, Inner London Education Authority
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1966
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Keith Vaughan Journals and Drawings 1939-1965, Alan Ross, London
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