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| Anthony Green | Profile |
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1939 |
Born in Luton
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1956/60 |
Studied at
The Slade School of Fine Art |
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1960/61 |
French
Government Scholarship to Paris |
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1963 |
Gulbenkian
Purchase Award |
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1967/69 |
Harkness
Fellowship to USA |
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1971 |
Elected to
The Royal Academy |
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1977 |
Royal Academy
Summer Show, Exhibit of the Year |
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1991 |
Elected
Fellow of University College, London |
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1996 |
Short listed
"Jerwood Painting Prize" |
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2000-2008 |
Appointed a
Trustee of the Royal Academy of Arts |
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2002 |
Elected to
the New English Art Club |
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2003 |
Featured
Artist at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition |
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2008 |
Shortlisted
for Threadneedle Figurative Art Prize |
Since 1962,
Anthony Green has held over 100 one-man shows in many cities worldwide,
including London, Tokyo, New York, Rotterdam, Chicago, Berlin, Hamburg,
Brussels and Sydney. In addition,
between July 1999 and January 2001,
he toured to 15 UK cathedrals and to Dublin with 'Resurrection – a
pictorial sculpture for the Millennium'
One man shows include:
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1962/64/66/67/71/72/74/76/81 |
Rowan Gallery |
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1984 |
Juda Rowan
Gallery |
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1989 |
Mayor Rowan
Gallery |
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1972/76/82/84 |
Galerie
Brusberg, Hanover/Berlin |
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1975/77/81/84/88/92/97 |
Nishimura
Gallery, Tokyo |
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1975/78/83/88 |
Staempfli
Gallery, New York |
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1993/96 and
2000 |
Piccadilly
Gallery, London |
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2001 |
Galerie Rose,
Hamburg |
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2003 |
"Autobiographic",
Study Gallery, Poole |
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2004 |
"Now I'm 64",
Buckingham University, Buckingham |
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Diving Off
The Wardrobe", The Fine Art Society, London |
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2005 |
"A Green Paradise – gardens,
French pastries, a lagonda and a couple of terriers", |
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John Davies
Fine Paintings, Stow on the Wold |
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2006 |
"The Artist's Mother", Ulster Museum |
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"Souvenirs of the Confessional", Art
Space Gallery, London |
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"Perspectives, Paraphernalia and
Paradise", original prints, Curwen Gallery, London |
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"Earthly Delights, 1973 - 2006",
Richmond Hill Gallery, Richmond-upon-Thames |
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2008 |
Richmond Hill
Gallery,Richmond-upon-Thames |
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1966-2008 |
Royal Academy
Summer Exhibition |
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1967 |
John Moore's
Exhibition 6 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (and six times since) |
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1968 |
"British
Kunst Heute", Kunstverein, Hamburg |
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1973 |
La peinture
anglaise aujourd'hui" Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris |
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1982 |
"Aspects of
British Art Today" British Council Exhibition touring Japan: Tokyo |
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Metropolitan
Museum etc |
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"Mirror Paintings" Kunstverein, Hanover, Wilhelm
Lehmbruck-Museum Duisberg, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin |
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1984 |
"The Hard Won
Image" Tate Gallery, London |
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1984-85 |
"The Proper
Study: Contemporary Figurative
Paintings for India" organised by the British Council, touring India |
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1990 |
Glasgow's
"Great British Art" Exhibition |
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1991 |
"10 British
Artists" Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo |
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1992 |
"Recent 20th
Century Acquisitions", National Portrait Gallery, London |
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1995 |
Osaka
Sculpture Triennale 1995, Japan |
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1996 |
Jerwood
Painting Prize, Lethaby Galleries, Central St Martin's College of Art, London |
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1997 |
"2D? 3D!"
Yamanashi Prefectorial Museum of Art, Japan |
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1997 |
"Gardens" AT
Kearney, London |
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1997 |
British
Figurative Art – Part II, Sculpture, Flowers East |
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"Small is Beautiful,
Music", Flowers East |
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1999 |
Alles
Theatre…..Galerie Rose, Hamburg |
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2000 |
"Small is
Beautiful, Self Portrait", Flowers East, London |
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2001 |
"Perception-Seeing",
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
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2002 |
Royal Society
of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London |
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2003 |
"Obsessions"
(with Mary Cozens-Walker), Brewery Arts, Cirencester |
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"Small is
Beautiful, War and Peace", Flowers Central, London |
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2004 |
"Visual Wit",
Friends' Room, Royal Academy, London |
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2005 |
"Love for
Sale – The Art of Sensuality", Bankside Gallery, London |
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Richmond Hill
Gallery: Easter Show and Summer
Exhibition |
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Singer &
Friedlander Watercolour Competition (invited artist), Mall Galleries, London |
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London Group,
Bankside Gallery, London |
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2005-07 |
New English
Art Club, Mall Galleries, London |
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2006 |
"Small is
Beautiful", Flowers Central, London |
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2007 |
Portal
Painters Springtime Extravaganza, Portal Gallery, London |
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"Small is
Beautiful", Flowers Central, London |
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"Home and
Garden 4", Geffrye Museum, London |
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2008 |
Threadneedle
Figurative Art Prize, Mall Galleries, London |
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2008-09 |
Twelve
Travels. British Art in
Sensibility and Experience, Japanese Museum Tour |
Anthony Green has works in public collections around the world. These include:
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Arts Council
of Great Britain |
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Baltimore
Museum of Art, USA |
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Boston Museum
of Fine Art, USA |
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British
Council |
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Chantrey
Bequest, Tate Gallery |
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City of
Hiroshima, Japan |
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City of
Southampton Art Gallery |
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Cleveland Art
Gallery, Middlesborough |
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Contemporary
Art Society, London |
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Council for
National Academic Awards |
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Frans
Halsmuseum, Haarlem, Holland |
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Fukuoka City
Art Museum, Japan |
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Gallery of
Modern Art, Glasgow |
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Government
Art Collection |
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Gulbenkian
Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal |
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Hugh Lane
Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, Eire |
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Ikeda Museum
of 20th Century Art, Japan |
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Iwaki City
Art Museum, Japan |
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Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, USA |
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Museum
Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
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National
Museum of Wales, Cardiff |
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National Portrait Gallery, London |
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Niigata City
Art Museum, Japan |
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Olinda
Museum, Brazil |
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Sainsbury
Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich |
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Scottish
National Gallery of Modern Art (The Gabrielle Keiller Collection) |
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Setagaya Art
Museum, Japan |
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Tate Gallery |
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Tochigi
Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan |
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Tokyo
Metropolitan Arts Museum, Japan |
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Ulster
Museum, Belfast |
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Victoria and
Albert Museum, London |
Bibliography
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1971 |
BBC2, May
21: "Review" documentary
directed by Nigel Williams |
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1972 |
Mizue
(Japan), August: "Anthony Green
– the Auto-biographical Painter", Taro Nomura |
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Financial
Times, October 10: "Anthony
Green", Marina Vaizey |
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1973 |
Art
International, January: "London
Letter", William Feaver |
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1977 |
Geijutsu
Shincho (Japan), December:
"Shaped Canvas by Anthony Green" |
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1978 |
Sunday
Telegraph, October 15: "Green
Life Burgeons", Michael Shepherd |
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1979 |
"Figurative
Art of Two Generations"
Selection and introduction by Timothy Hyman |
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BBC2 Arena
"Now and Then/Anthony Green" directed by Nigel Williams |
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1981 |
Geijutsu
Shincho (Japan), June:
"Mythological Anthony Greens" |
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1982 |
BBC2, June
7: "The Human Brain" produced by
Robin Brightwell |
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1984 |
Art in
America, February: "Anthony Green at Staempfli", Gerrit Henry |
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"A Green Part
of the World", text by Anthony Green in collaboration with Martin Bailey
published by Thames & Hudson |
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1987 |
LWT South
Bank Show, A Film "Anthony Green RA – A Love Story" directed by John
Read, introduced by Melvyn Bragg |
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The
Times: "Reaching Green Pastures
Anew", Roger Berthoud |
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Introduction
to Catalogue of Anthony Green (Exhibition touring Japanese museums) by
Timothy Hyman |
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1989 |
BBC Radio 4,
July 29: "Conversation Piece"
interview with Sue McGregor |
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1992 |
Introduction
to Nishimura Catalogue, Tokyo, November, by Frank Whitford |
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1997 |
The
Independent, "No one home – an exhibition of recent paintings by
Anthony Green at Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich", Andrew Graham-Dixon |
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BBC1,
Omnibus: "Anthony Green RA
– 57 UP", a film directed by Nigel Williams |
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1999 |
The Sunday
Times (Culture Section) August 15:
"Heaven in his eyes" by Frank Whitford |
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BBC Radio 4,
"Front Row" – interview by Mark Lawson |
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2000 |
The
Independent, January.
Photograph: Anthony Green
installing his sculpture in Durham Cathedral |
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"A Dirty Word
Or Two", Frank Whitford, introduction to "Passion" at Victoria Art Gallery,
Bath |
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Radio interviews
re: Resurrection with BBC Radio Newcastle, Radio Cleveland, Radio Merseyside,
Radio Gloucester, Radio Sheffield, Radio Cornwall, Radio Devon, Gemini Radio,
Radio Hereford & Worcester |
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TV interviews
and coverage of Resurrection, BBC News West, BBC North, Scottish TV, Carlton
West Country |
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RA Magazine,
winter issue: "Supporting Faith,
the national reaction to 'Resurrection'" |
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2001 |
BBC Radio
Ulster, January 2 re Resurrection in Dublin |
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Northlight
Gallery, Huddersfield "A Pilgrim's Progress…Heaven next step", video 33
minutes |
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2003 |
Video: "Anthony Green…..The Works!", Opus
School of Textile Arts (45 minutes) |
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The
Independent, May 21, "My Week? Anthony Green – the featured artist at
the Royal Academy of Arts summer show" |
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The Sunday
Telegraph, June 1, "Chaotic, epic and dotty' – Anthony Green at the
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition" by Martin Gayford |
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BBC Radio 4,
June 18. Guest on "Midweek" with
Libby Purves |
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BBC Radio 4,
August 10. Guest on " Sunday
Worship – Doing is Believing" with Piers Plowright |
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BBC Radio 4,
August 12. Guest on "A Good
Read" |
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2005 |
BBC Radio
Gloucester, October 5, an interview about Anthony Green exhibition at Stow on
the Wold |
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2006 |
Richmond
Magazine, November. "Green
Living" by Carol Cordrey. |
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2008 |
Sunday Times,
June 8. Article on the RA Summer
Exhibition by Waldemar
Januszczak. A print by RA
veteran, Anthony Green, mentioned favourably |