| Biography |
| 1893 |
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Born in London, England. |
| 1903 |
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Educated at Bedales co-educational progressive school, Petersfield, England. |
| 1910 |
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St John’s Wood School of Art. |
| 1911 |
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Royal Academy, London, England. |
| 1922 |
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Founding member of the Seven and Five Society. |
| 1931 |
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Member of the London Group. |
| 1951 |
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Won the Purchase Prize in the Arts Council Festival of Britain. |
| 1963 |
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Major retrospective exhibition arranged by the Arts Council at the Tate Gallery, London, England. |
| 1979 |
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Dies in August. |
Selected solo exhibitions
| 1925 |
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Mayor Gallery, London, England. |
| 1933 |
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Alex Reid & Lefevre (also 1935 and 1937), London, England. |
| 1940 |
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Leicester Galleries (also 1942, 1944, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1957 and 1959), London, England. |
| 1948 |
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Retrospective exhibition at Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, England. |
| 1956 |
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Gimpel Fils, London, England. |
| 1960 |
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Waddington Galleries (also 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1982, 1985, 1990), London, England. |
| 1963 |
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Major retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London, England; travelling to Bradford City Art Gallery and Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, England. |
| 1978 |
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Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne; retrospective exhibition travelling to Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Museum and Art Gallery, Reading; City Museum and Art Gallery, Portsmouth, England. |
| 1979 |
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Royal Academy of Arts, London; retrospective exhibition travelling to Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance; Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull; Castle Museum, Nottingham, England. |
| 1983 |
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Waddington & Shiell Galleries, Toronto, Canada.
Theo Waddington, New York, USA. |
| 1989 |
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Serpentine Gallery, London, retrospective exhibition travelling to City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland; Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; City Art Gallery, York, England. |
| 1993 |
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Montpelier Sandelson, London, England. |
| 1996 |
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Robert Sandelson, London, England. |
| 1999 |
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Robert Sandelson, London, England. |
| 2002 |
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Robert Sandelson, London, England. |
Selected group exhibitions
| 1934 |
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‘Objective Abstraction’, Zwemmer Gallery, London, England. |
| 1936 |
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‘Winter’s Stage’, Tate Gallery, London, England. |
| 1939 |
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‘Contemporary British Art’, British Pavilion, World’s Fair, New York, USA. |
| 1943 |
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‘Contemporary British Art’, British Council travelling exhibition touring South America. |
| 1945 |
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Temple Newsam House, Leeds, England; retrospective exhibition with Henry Moore. |
| 1945-46 |
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‘Contemporary British Art’, British Council exhibition touring the Middle East, North Africa and Italy. |
| 1947 |
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‘School of London’, opening exhibition, Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin, Ireland. |
| 1947-48 |
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‘Modern British Paintings’, British Council exhibition shown in Athens, Rome, Paris, Marseilles and Prague. |
| 1950 |
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‘The Private Collector’, Contemporary Art Society exhibition, Tate Gallery, London, England. |
| 1951 |
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First Biennal of Contemporary Art, Sao Paolo, Brazil. |
| 1953 |
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‘Hitchens, Sutherland, Moore’, Crane Gallery, Manchester, England. |
| 1953 |
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Second International Art Exhibition, (with Ben Nicholson), Metropolitan Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, subsequently travelling to Osaka, Ube, Fukuoka, Sarebo, Nagoya, Takamatsu et al. |
| 1956 |
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‘Masters of British Painting 1800-1950’, Museum of Modern Art, New York; travelling to St. Louis and San Francisco, USA. |
| 1957 |
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Laing Galleries, (with John Piper), Toronto, Canada. |
| 1957-58 |
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First John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England. |
| 1958 |
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‘Cinquante Ans d’Art Moderne’, (Hitchens, Yeats, O’Connor), Palais International des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
‘Three Painters’, Waddington Galleries, London, England. |
| 1962 |
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‘Kompas 2: Contemporary Painting in London’, Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
‘British Art Today’, San Francisco Museum of Art; travelling to Dallas and Santa Barbara, USA. |
| 1968-69 |
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Royal Academy Bicentenary Exhibition, 1768-1968, Burlington House, London, England. |
| 1972 |
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‘Decade 40s: Painting, Sculpture and Drawing in Britain 1940-49’, Arts Council Exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery; travelling to Southampton, Carlisle, Durham, Manchester, Bradford and Aberdeen, UK. |
| 1974 |
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‘British Painting’, Hayward Gallery, London, England. |
| 1977 |
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‘British Painting: 1952-1977’, Royal Academy, London, England. |
| 1980 |
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‘Ten Modern Masters’, Tate Gallery, London, England. |
| 1985 |
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'Recalling the Fifties’, Serpentine Gallery, London, England. |
| 1987 |
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‘British Art in the Twentieth Century: The Modern Movement’, Royal Academy, London, England. |
| 1990-91 |
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‘The British Imagination’, Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York, USA. |
| 1991 |
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‘British Art from 1930’, Waddington Galleries, London, England.
‘Ivon Hitchens and Jack B. Yeats’, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. |
| 1994 |
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‘Paintmarks’, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, England. |
| 1999 |
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‘Flora and Fauna’, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England. |
| 2004 |
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‘Art of the Garden’, Tate Britain, London, England. |
| 2006 |
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‘British Modernism’, John Leech Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand. |
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