Patrick Caulfield
| Patrick Caulfield | |
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 After Lunch, 1975, Tate Gallery |
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| Born | 29 January 1936 London, England |
| Died | 29 September 2005 (aged 69) London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Field | Painting, Printmaking |
| Training |
Chelsea School of Art, 1956-1959 Royal College of Art, 1960-1963 |
| Works |
After Lunch, 1975 Still Life with Dagger, 1963 Les Demoiselles d'Avignon vues de derrière, 1999 |
| Influenced by | Juan Gris, Georges Braque |
| Awards |
Prix des Jeunes Artistes, 1965 Royal Academician, 1993 Jerwood Painting Prize, 1995 London Institute Honorary Fellowship, 1996 Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 1996 |
Patrick Joseph Caulfield, CBE, RA (29 January 1936 – 29 September 2005) was an English painter and printmaker known for his bold canvases, which often incorporated elements of Photorealism within a pared down scene.
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[edit] Life and work
Patrick Caulfield studied at the Chelsea School of Art from 1956 to 1960, and at the Royal College of Art from 1960 to 1963,[1] where his fellow pupils included David Hockney and Allen Jones.[2] He taught at Chelsea School of Art from 1963-71.[1] In 1964, he exhibited at the New Generation show at London's Whitechapel Gallery, which resulted in him being associated with the pop art movement. However, this was a label which Caulfield was opposed to throughout his career, seeing himself rather as "a 'formal' artist", in his words.[3]
From around the mid-1970s he began to incorporate more detailed, realistic elements into his work, After Lunch (1975) being one of the first examples. Still-life: Autumn Fashion (1978) contains a variety of different styles—some objects have heavy black outlines and flat colour, but a bowl of oysters is depicted more realistically, and other areas are executed with looser brushwork. Caulfield later returned to his earlier, more stripped-down style of painting.
Caulfield's paintings are figurative, often portraying a few simple objects in an interior. Typically, he used flat areas of simple colour surrounded by black outlines.[4] Some of his works are dominated by a single hue.
In 1987, Caulfield was nominated for the Turner Prize and in 1996 he was made a CBE.
The estate of Patrick Caulfield is represented by Alan Cristea Gallery, London.
On 24 May 2004, a fire in a storage warehouse destroyed many works from the Saatchi collection, including one or more by Caulfield. In September 2010 Caulfield and five other British artists including Howard Hodgkin, John Walker, Ian Stephenson, John Hoyland and R.B. Kitaj were included in an exhibition entitled The Independent Eye: Contemporary British Art From the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie, at the Yale Center for British Art.[5][6] He died in London in 2005 and is buried in Highgate Cemetery.
[edit] Selected solo exhibitions
- 2009 Prints 1964 – 1999, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
- 2006 Royal Academy, London, UK (Special Summer Exhibition Show)
- 2006 Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
- 1999 Hayward Gallery, London, UK
- 1996 Claudine Papillon, Paris, France
- 1992-93 Retrospective, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
- 1989 Waddington Galleries, London
- 1985 Waddington Galleries, London, UK
- 1982 Retrospective, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 1981 Patrick Caulfield: Paintings 1963-81, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (touring to Tate Britain, London and Waddington Galleries, London, UK)
- 1978 Tate Gallery, London, UK
- 1968 Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, UK
- 1965 Robert Fraser Gallery, London, UK
[edit] Selected public collections
UK
- Arts Council of Great Britain, London
- British Council, London & Manchester
- Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester
- National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
- Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
- Tate Gallery, London
- Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
- Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
USA
- Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
- Harry N Abrams Collection, New York
- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Australia
- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
- Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Caulfield 1992, p. 81.
- ^ Burn 2006.
- ^ Guardian Obituary Retrieved October 28, 2011
- ^ Caulfield 1992, p. 10.
- ^ Channeling American Abstraction, Karen Wilkin, Wall Street Journal Retrieved October 7, 2010
- ^ NY Times, exhibition review Retrieved December 15, 2010
[edit] References
- Burn, Gordon (21 January 2006). "Paint the town red". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2006/jan/21/art1. Retrieved 2010-10-17.
- Caulfield, P. (1992). Patrick Caulfield, paintings 1963-1992. London: Art & design. ISBN 1-85490-180-X
[edit] External links
- Caulfield at the Tate Gallery (includes images of many of his pieces)
- Patrick Caulfield works at Alan Cristea Gallery (ditto)
- Caulfield at the Waddington Gallery (ditto)
- Caulfield biography
- BBC News: Pop artist Patrick Caulfield dies
- Photograph of his gravestone
