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Patrick Heron

The Brushwork Series

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1920: Born on January 30 in Headingley, Leeds, Yorkshire
1935 - 1939: Works as designer for his father’s firm, Cresta Silks
1937 - 1939: Studied at the Slade School of Art
1944 - 1945: Assistant at Bernard Leach’s pottery, St Ives
1944 - 1950: Works as designer for his father’s firm, Cresta Silks
1945 - 1958: Critic for New English Weekly, New Statesman and Nation and Arts (New York)
1945: Moves to Holland Park, London
1953 - 1956: Taught at the Central School of Art, London
1956: Moves to Eagles Nest, Zennor, Cornwall
1958: Moves into Nicholson’s studio at Porthmeor, St Ives
1959: Winner of Grand Prize, in 2nd John Moores Exhibition
1965: Awarded Silver medal in the VIII Sao Paulo Bienal
1972: Retrospective at the Whitechapel Art Gallery
1977: Created CBE
1985: Retrospective at the Barbican Art Gallery
1998: Retrospective at Tate Britain
1999: Died on March 20 in Cornwall, England

2008: The Effect Haim Steinbach, Waddington Galleries, London
2005: Patrick Heron: Gouaches from 1961 to 1996, Waddington Galleries, London
1998: Tate Gallery, London
1993: Inaugural Exhibition, Tate St Ives, Cornwall
1985: Barbican Art Gallery, London
: St Ives 1939-64, Tate Gallery, London
: British Art in the Twentieth Century: The Modern Movement, Royal Academy, London
1979: Oriel Gallery, Cardiff
1977: British Painting 1952-1977, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1972 - 1973: Decade: Painting, Drawing and Sculpture in Britain 1940-9, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, touring to Southampton, Durham, Carlisle, Manchester, Bradford and Aberdeen
1972: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1968: Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1965: São Paulo Bienal VIII, (Silver Medal) (exhibition toured South America in 1966)
1963: Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zürich
1962 - 1963: British Art Today, San Francisco Museum of Art, California, touring to Dallas and Santa Barbara
1959 - 1987: Waddington Galleries, London
1959: John Moores Liverpool Exhibition II, Liverpool
1954: British Painting and Sculpture 1954, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1953: Space in Colour, Hanover Gallery, London
1950: Aspects of British art, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1947 - 1958: Redfern Gallery, London
: Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York

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