Biography
| 1939 |
|
Born in Luton |
| 1956/60 |
|
Studied at The Slade School of Fine
Art |
| 1960/61 |
|
French Government Scholarship to
Paris |
| 1963 |
|
Gulbenkian Purchase Award |
| 1967/69 |
|
Harkness Fellowship to USA |
| 1971 |
|
Elected to The Royal Academy |
| 1977 |
|
Royal Academy Summer Show, Exhibit
of the Year
Elected Fellow of University College, London |
| 1991 |
|
UCL election |
| 1996 |
|
Short listed Jerwood Painting Prize |
| 2000-2008 |
|
Appointed a Trustee of the Royal
Academy of Arts |
| 2002 |
|
Elected to the New English Art Club |
| 2003 |
|
Featured Artist at the Royal Academy
Summer Exhibition |
| 2008 |
|
Shortlisted for Threadneedle Figurative
Art Prize |
 |  | |
Exhibitions
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:
1962/64/66/67/
71/72/74/76/81 |
|
Rowan Gallery |
| 1984 |
|
Juda Rowan Gallery |
| 1989 |
|
Mayor Rowan Gallery |
| 1972/76/82/84 |
|
Galerie Brusberg, Hanover/Berlin |
1975/77/81/84/
88/92/97 |
|
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1975/78/83/88 |
|
Staempfli Gallery, New York |
| 1993/96 & 2000 |
|
Piccadilly Gallery, London |
| 2001 |
|
Galerie Rose, Hamburg |
| 2003 |
|
Autobiographic, Study Gallery, Poole |
| 2004 |
|
Now I’m 64, Buckingham University,
Buckingham
Diving Off The Wardrobe, The Fine
Art Society, London |
| 2005 |
|
A Green Paradise – gardens,
French pastries, a lagonda and a couple of terriers,
John Davies Fine Paintings, Stow on the Wold |
| 2006 |
|
The Artist’s Mother, Ulster
Museum
Souvenirs of the Confessional, Art Space Gallery, London
Perspectives, Paraphernalia and Paradise, original prints, Curwen Gallery, London
Earthly Delights, 1973 - 2006, Richmond Hill Gallery, Richmond-upon-Thames |
| 2008 |
|
Richmond Hill Gallery, Richmond-upon-Thames |
| | |
Group exhibitions include
| 1966-2008 |
|
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition |
| 1967 |
|
John Moore’s Exhibition 6,
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (and six times since) |
| 1968 |
|
British Kunst Heute, Kunstverein,
Hamburg
La peinture anglaise aujourd’hui, Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris
Aspects of British Art Today, British Council Exhibition touring Japan: Tokyo
Metropolitan Museum etc
Mirror Paintings, Kunstverein, Hanover, Wilhelm Lehmbruck-Museum Duisberg,
Haus am Waldsee, Berlin |
| 1984 |
|
The Hard Won Image, Tate Gallery,
London |
| 1984-85 |
|
The Proper Study: Contemporary Figurative
Paintings for India organised by
the British Council, touring India |
| 1990 |
|
Glasgow’s Great British Art
Exhibition |
| 1991 |
|
10 British Artists, Nishimura Gallery,
Tokyo |
| 1992 |
|
Recent 20th Century Acquisitions,
National Portrait Gallery, London
Osaka Sculpture Triennale 1995, Japan
Jerwood Painting Prize, Lethaby Galleries, Central St Martin’s College
of Art, London |
| 1997 |
|
2D? 3D! Yamanashi Prefectorial Museum
of Art, Japan
Gardens, AT Kearney, London |
| 1998 |
|
British Figurative Art – Part
II, Sculpture, Flowers East
Small is Beautiful, Music, Flowers East |
| 1999 |
|
Alles Theatre… Galerie Rose,
Hamburg |
| 2000 |
|
Small is Beautiful, Self Portrait,
Flowers East, London |
| 2001 |
|
Perception-Seeing, Setagaya Art Museum,
Tokyo, Japan |
| 2002 |
|
Royal Society of Portrait Painters,
Mall Galleries, London |
| 2003 |
|
Obsessions (with Mary Cozens-Walker),
Brewery Arts, Cirencester
Small is Beautiful, War and Peace, Flowers Central, London |
| 2004 |
|
Visual Wit, Friends’ Room,
Royal Academy, London |
| 2005 |
|
Love for Sale – The Art of
Sensuality, Bankside Gallery, London
Richmond Hill Gallery: Easter Show and Summer Exhibition
Singer & Friedlander Watercolour Competition (invited artist), Mall Galleries,
London
London Group, Bankside Gallery, London |
| 2005-07 |
|
New English Art Club, Mall Galleries,
London |
| 2006 |
|
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central,
London |
| 2007 |
|
Portal Painters Springtime Extravaganza,
Portal Gallery, London
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London
Home and Garden 4, Geffrye Museum, London |
| 2008 |
|
Threadneedle Figurative Art Prize,
Mall Galleries, London |
| 2008-09 |
|
Twelve Travels. British Art in Sensibility
and Experience, Japanese Museum Tour |
| | |
Public Collections
Anthony Green has works in public collections around the world. These
include:
Arts Council of Great Britain
Baltimore Museum of Art, USA
Boston Museum of Fine Art, USA
British Council
Chantrey Bequest, Tate Gallery
City of Hiroshima, Japan
City of Southampton Art Gallery
Cleveland Art Gallery, Middlesborough
Contemporary Art Society, London
Council for National Academic Awards
Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem, Netherlands
Fukuoka City Art Museum, Japan
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Government Art Collection
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Hugh Lane Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, Eire
Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art, Japan
Iwaki City Art Museum, Japan
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
National Portrait Gallery, London
Niigata City Art Museum, Japan
Olinda Museum, Brazil
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (The Gabrielle Keiller Collection)
Setagaya Art Museum, Japan
Tate Gallery
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan
Tokyo Metropolitan Arts Museum, Japan
Ulster Museum, Belfast
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Bibliography
| 1971 |
|
BBC2, May 21: Review documentary
directed by Nigel Williams |
| 1972 |
|
Mizue (Japan), August: Anthony Green – the
Auto-biographical Painter, Taro Nomura
Financial Times, October 10: Anthony Green, Marina Vaizey |
| 1973 |
|
Art International, January: London
Letter, William Feaver |
| 1977 |
|
Geijutsu Shincho (Japan), December:
Shaped Canvas by Anthony Green |
| 1978 |
|
Sunday Telegraph, October 15: Green
Life Burgeons, Michael Shepherd |
| 1979 |
|
Figurative Art of Two Generations,
Selection and introduction by Timothy Hyman
BBC2 Arena Now and Then/Anthony Green directed by Nigel Williams |
| 1981 |
|
Geijutsu Shincho (Japan), June: Mythological
Anthony Greens |
| 1982 |
|
BBC2, June 7: The Human Brain produced
by Robin Brightwell |
| 1984 |
|
Art in America, February: Anthony
Green at Staempfli, Gerrit Henry
A Green Part of the World, text by Anthony Green in collaboration with
Martin Bailey published by Thames & Hudson |
| 1987 |
|
LWT South Bank Show, A Film Anthony
Green RA
A Love Story directed by John Read, introduced by Melvyn Bragg
The Times: Reaching Green Pastures Anew, Roger Berthoud
Introduction to Catalogue of Anthony Green
(Exhibition touring Japanese museums) by Timothy Hyman |
| 1989 |
|
BBC Radio 4, July 29: Conversation
Piece interview with Sue McGregor |
| 1992 |
|
Introduction to Nishimura Catalogue,
Tokyo, November, by Frank Whitford |
| 1997 |
|
The Independent, No one home – an
exhibition of recent paintings by
Anthony Green at Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich, Andrew Graham-Dixon
BBC1, Omnibus: Anthony Green RA – 57 UP, a film directed by Nigel Williams |
| 1999 |
|
The Sunday Times (Culture Section)
August 15: Heaven in his eyes by Frank Whitford
BBC Radio 4, Front Row – interview by Mark Lawson |
| 2000 |
|
The Independent, January. Photograph:
Anthony Green installing his sculpture in
Durham Cathedral
A Dirty Word Or Two, Frank Whitford, introduction to Passion at Victoria Art
Gallery, Bath
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
TV interviews and coverage of Resurrection, BBC News West, BBC North,
Scottish TV, Carlton West Country
RA Magazine, winter issue: Supporting Faith, the national reaction to ‘Resurrection’ |
| 2001 |
|
BBC Radio Ulster, January 2 re Resurrection
in Dublin
Northlight Gallery, Huddersfield A Pilgrim’s Progress… Heaven next
step, video 33 minutes |
| 2003 |
|
Video: Anthony Green… The
Works!, Opus School of Textile Arts (45 minutes)
The Independent, May 21, My Week? Anthony Green – the featured artist at
the
Royal Academy of Arts summer show
The Sunday Telegraph, June 1, Chaotic, epic and dotty – Anthony Green at
the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition by Martin Gayford
BBC Radio 4, June 18. Guest on Midweek with Libby Purves
BBC Radio 4, August 10. Guest on Sunday Worship – Doing is Believing with
Piers Plowright
BBC Radio 4, August 12. Guest on A Good Read |
| 2005 |
|
BBC Radio Gloucester, October 5,
an interview about Anthony Green exhibition
at Stow on the Wold |
| 2006 |
|
Richmond Magazine, November. Green
Living by Carol Cordrey. |
| 2008 |
|
Sunday Times, June 8. Article on
the RA Summer Exhibition by
Waldemar Januszczak. A print by RA veteran, Anthony Green, mentioned favourably
Anthony Green and the Richmond Hill Gallery would like to thank Peter Gregory-Hood
for the loan of Mother-in-law I and Mary and Anthony, Lissenden Mansions. |
| | |
|
