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Adrian ALLINSON
Dates: 1890-1959
Painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, designer and cartoonist. The son of a doctor, he initially studied medicine before attending the Slade School of Fine Art, 1910-12, where he was taught by Henry Tonks (1862-1937) and Philip Wilson Steer (1860-1942). He visited Munich in 1910 and worked with Walter Sickert in Dieppe in the summer of 1914. After the First World War he travelled to Switzerland and the Mediterranean but mainly worked in London where he taught art at the Westminster Technical Institute. He also drew caricatures for the 'Daily Mail' and produced set designs for Sir Thomas Beecham at the Covent Garden Opera House. He painted detailed landscapes, figure studies, still lifes and produced large ceramic sculpture figures. He was a member of the London Group and exhibited with the New English Art Club, Leicester Galleries, the Royal Academy and the Redfern Gallery. He collected Hispano-Moresque pottery and Japanese Imari pottery. |