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Peter Blake

(British, born 1932)

Peter Blake

I Love You, 2013

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Biography

Timeline

1932: Born on June 25 in Dartford, Kent, England
1946 - 1951: Studied at Gravesend Technical College & School of Art, London, England
1953 - 1956: Studied at Royal College of Art, London, England
1964 - 1967: Taught at Royal College of Art, London, England
1967: Made cover design for Beatles’ "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
1970: Used watercolour to illustrate Lewis Carroll’s "Through the Looking-Glass"
1975: Founder of the Brotherhood of Ruralists
1981: Becomes a Royal Academician
1983: Major retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery
1994: Third Associate of the National Gallery
1998: Honorary Doctor, Royal College of Art, London
2002: Received knighthood
: Currently lives and works in London, England

Exhibitions

2013: The House of Fairy Tales Cartographic Portfolio, London Original Print Fair, TAG Fine Arts, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2012: Peter Blake and Pop Music, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
: Sir Peter Blake, CCA at the Mall Galleries, London (solo)
: Sir Peter Blake at 80, CCA at the Royal Albert Hall, London (solo)
: Sir Peter Blake – new and vintage works, Railings Gallery, London
: Parallelwelt Zirkus, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (solo)
: Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
2010: 25th London Original Print Fair, TAG Fine Arts, Royal Academy, London, England
: AAFNYC, TAG Fine Arts, New York City, NY
2007: Peter Blake: A Retrospective, Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom
: Peter Blake Prints and Sculpture, The Harley Gallery, Welbeck
2006: Peter Blake: 1975-2005, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2005: Peter Blake: 1-10 (Collages, Constructions, Drawings & Sculpture) & The Marcel Duchamp Paintings, Waddington Galleries, London, England
: New Prints by Peter Blake, The Charing X Gallery, London, England
2003: Peter Blake: Commercial Art, The London Institute Gallery, London, England (graphic design)
: Peter Blake: Sculpture, The London Institute Gallery, London, England (sculpture)
: Peter Blake, Artiscope (Zaira Mis), Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2002: Over the Rainbow, Harley Gallery, Welbeck (solo)
: Sir Peter Blake/And Now We Are 70, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2001 - 2006: Alphabet, York College of Further and Higher Education; touring to University College, Northampton; Michael Tippett Centre, Bath; Library Gallery, Kidderminster; Kirkby Gallery; Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport; Bersham Heritage Centre, Museum of Cannock Chase, Hednesford; Pittencrieff House Museum, Dunfermline; Wakefield Art Gallery, Bedales Gallery, Petersfield; Ashfield School, Kirkby in Ashfield; Central Library, Gateshead; The Babylon Gallery, Ely; Mill Green Museum and Mill, Hatfield; Bellshill Cultural Centre; Whitstable Museum and Art Gallery; The London Road Gallery, Northwich; Aberystwyth Arts Centre; Towneley Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Burnley; Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead; St Paul’s School, Barnes; Arts Complex, Solihull; Wingfield Arts, Mansfield Museum and Art Gallery; The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent; Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk; Haworth Art Gallery, Accrington; St Davids Hall, Cardiff – tour continues, further venues to be confirmed (solo)
2000: Peter Blake: About Collage, Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom (solo)
1999: A Cabinet of Curiosities from the Collections of Peter Blake, Morley Gallery, London, England (solo)
1996 - 1997: Now We Are 64: Peter Blake at the National Gallery, National Gallery, London, England ; touring to Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom (solo)
1995: Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris , France (solo)
1993: The Tabernacle Cultural Centre, Machynlleth (silk-screen prints) (solo)
1992: Govinda Gallery, Washington D.C. (Eric Clapton sketches) (solo)
1990: Wetterling Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden (solo)
: Waddington Galleries, London, England (solo)
: Govinda Gallery, Washington DC (Eric Clapton sketches)
1988: Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1986 - 1987: Watermans Art Centre, Brentford, Middlesex; touring to Turnpike Gallery, Leigh (solo)
1984: Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France (solo)
1983: Tate Gallery, London (retrospective); touring to Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (solo)
1980: Galleria Documenta, Turin, Italy (drawings and prints) (solo)
1979: Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom (drawings and prints) (solo)
1978: Waddington Graphics, London, England (solo)
1977: Waddington and Tooth Galleries, London, England (solo)
1974: Natalie Stern Gallery, London, England (print retrospective) (solo)
1973 - 1974: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; touring to Kunstverein Hamburg; Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (solo)
1972: Waddington Galleries, London, England (watercolours and drawings (solo)
1970: Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, united Kingdom (solo)
1969: Robert Fraser Gallery, London , England(solo)
: City Art Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom(solo)
: Leslie Waddington Prints, London, England (solo)
1965: Robert Fraser Gallery, London, England (solo)
1962: Portal Gallery, London, England (solo)

Literature

2006: ‘September’, DACS 2006 calender
2005: Grimwood, Brian: ‘Waxworks to Cossacks’, The Journal of the Associations of Illustrators, February/March, pp. 14-21
2004: Bennett, Oliver: ‘Post-war excitement: the attraction of collecting Pop Art’, The Independent, 20 March, pp. 10-11
2003: Harrison, David: ‘Getting back to nature’, Bristol Evening Post, 11 February,
2002: Roberts, Eric: ‘An old master’s pick of the pops’, Yorkshire Post, 28 August, p.13
2001: Lacey, Hester (interview): 'How we met: Peter Blake & Rick Stein', The Independent on Sunday, 4 March, p.62
2000: Johnson, Holly: 'Meeting the Magician', Modern Painters, Spring, pp.90-94
1999: Dutt, Robin: 'Custodian of curiosities', Evening Standard, 8 October, p.33
1998: Lyttelton, Celia: 'My greatest work of art', High Life (British Airways), May
1997: The 20th-Century Art Book, Phaidon Press, London
1996: Hyatt, Derek: 'What is Real?', Modern Painters, Spring, pp.106–107
1995: Lambirth, Andrew: 'Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield, Howard Hodgkin: Paintings from the 60's and 70's', What's On in London, 15–22 March
1994: Barnes, Rachel: 'Have a nice day, Mr Blake', The Guardian, 18 March, pp.6
1993: Bernard, Kate: 'Tempera fugit', Harpers & Queen, March, pp.150–53,154
1992: Davies, Hunter: 'Portrait of the artist (a work in progress)', The Independent, 19 May
1991: McHugh, Fionnuala: 'Blake's Progress', The Telegraph Weekend Magazine, 5 January
1990: 'Film Star Marilyn is just Peter's palette', Western Daily Press (Bristol), 21 February
1989: Brown, Jane: 'The Brotherhood of Ruralists and their friends in the Secret Garden', Hortus, Spring, no.9
1988: 'Art' Column, Asahi Journal (Japan), 17 June, p.44
1987: Kemp, John: 'Peter Blake talks to John Kemp', Artseen, no.15, pp.8–10
1986: Brown, John: 'Blake's Heaven', London Gentleman, March, p.27
1985: 'Peter the Painter', (Peter Blake talking to David Litchfield and Celia Lyttelton), Ritz, March
1984: D.M.Z: 'Queer Goings on at Sadlers Wells', Artline, April, vol.II, no.1
1983: 'Rocking at the Tate', The Standard, 6 January
1982: von Joel, Mike (interview): 'Peter Blake: In Retrospect', Art Line Newspaper, no.2, November, pp.5–7
1981: Vaizey, Marina: 'Elegy for a country garden' (review), The Sunday Times, 19 April, p.41
1980: Dury, Ian (interviewed on Peter Blake): New Musical Express, 19 July, pp.27–28
1979: Fuller, Peter: 'Peter Blake meets Peter Fuller', Aspects, Spring, no.6
1978: Blake, Peter: 'Contrariwise', Aspects, no.3, pp.1–2
1977: Vaizey, Marina: 'Jim Dine and Peter Blake' (review), Arts Review, 15 April, vol.29, no.8, pp.253–254
1976: Overy, Paul: 'Superstars for a day: the rise of Pop art in England' (review), The Times, 2 June, p.12
1975: Greenwood, Michael: 'British Painting '74' (review), Artscanada, March, no.196/7, pp.29–34
1974: Metken, Sigrid: 'Facteur Chevals Posttasche: die Bildpostkarte in der Kunst', Das Kunstwerk, January, vol.27, no.1, p.7
1973: Von Graevenitz, Antje: 'Museen und Galerien: Niederlande' (review), Pantheon, January/February/March, vol.32, no.1, p.98
1972: Russell, John: 'Best of Boys' (review), The Sunday Times, 10 December, p.37
1971: Denvir, Bernard: 'London Letter' (review), Art International, February, vol.15, no.2, pp.42–45
1970: Coleman, Roger: 'Peter Blake's Nostalgia' (review), Art and Artists, January, vol.4, no.10, pp.30–32
1969: Field, Simon: 'The pleasure principle' (review), Art and Artists, May, vol.4, no.2, pp.56–57
1968: Roberts, Keith: 'Blake, Dine, Hamilton/Arts Council Gallery' (review), Varsity, 20 January, p.17
1967: Overy, Paul: 'On the streets' (review), The Listener, 13 July, vol.78, no.1998, p.45
1966: Baro, Gene: 'London: a busy, vigorous season' (review), Arts Magazine, January, vol.40, no.3, pp.45–49
1965: Russell, John: 'London/NYC: the two-way traffic', Art in America, April, vol.53, no.2, pp.134,136
1964: Roberts, Keith: The Burlington Magazine (review), March, vol.106, no.732, pp.137–142
1963: Nordland, Gerald: 'Europe in California' (review), Arts Magazine, vol.37, no.9,
1962: Farr, Dennis: 'The John Moores Liverpool Exhibition', The Burlington Magazine, January, vol.104, no.706, pp.30–31
1961: Ironside, Robin: 'The Prize Paintings' (review), The Sunday Times, 19 November, p.38
1960: 'Is it art?' (review of I.C.A. exhibition), Daily Sketch, 20 January
1959: Blake, Peter: 'Supermidget with Mini-man' (cartoon strip), Ark, no.24, Winter, p.44
1958: Melville, Robert: Architectural Review (review), April, vol.123, no.735, pp.278–279
1956: Wallis, Neville: 'Designs for tomorrow', The Observer, 12 August, p.10

Peter Blake

(British, born 1932)

Peter Blake

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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