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John Egerton Christmas Piper, CH (13 December 1903 28 June 1992) was a 20th-century English painter and printmaker. For much of his life he lived at Fawley Bottom near Henley-on-Thames.
r, the son of a solicitor, was born in Epsom in 1903. He was educated at Epsom College and trained at the Richmond School of Art, followed by the Royal College of Art in London. He turned from abstraction early in his career, concentrating on a more naturalistic but distinctive approach.
Piper was appointed an official war artist in the World War II.
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John Egerton Christmas Piper, CH (13 December 1903 28 June 1992) was a 20th-century English painter and printmaker. For much of his life he lived at Fawley Bottom near Henley-on-Thames.
Life
Piper, the son of a solicitor, was born in Epsom in 1903. He was educated at Epsom College and trained at the Richmond School of Art, followed by the Royal College of Art in London. He turned from abstraction early in his career, concentrating on a more naturalistic but distinctive approach.
Piper was appointed an official war artist in the World War II. He collaborated with many others, including the poet John Betjeman (on the Shell Guides), as well as with the potter Geoffrey Eastop and the artist Ben Nicholson. In later years he produced many limited-edition prints.
His work often focused on the British landscape, especially churches. Along with Patrick Reyntiens he designed the stained glass windows for the new Coventry Cathedral. He also designed windows for many smaller churches. Piper created tapestries for Chichester Cathedral and Hereford Cathedral. He was a set designer for the theatre, including the Kenton Theatre, a theatre in Henley, Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff and the Royal Opera House for a production of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Piper also wrote extensively on modern art in books and articles. With his wife, Myfanwy Piper, he founded the contemporary art journal, Axis.
Exhibitions
182 of his works are in the Tate collection, including etchings and some earlier abstractions. Major retrospective exhibitions have been held at Tate Britain (1983-1984), the Dulwich Picture Gallery, the Imperial War Museum, the River and Rowing Museum and the Museum of Reading.
Quotations
- Abstraction is a luxury that has been left to the present day to exploit.
- Abstraction is the way to the heart it is not the heart itself.
Extra Reading
- Bowen, Jane (Curator)John Piper centenary Crossing boundaries 2002 ISBN 0-9535571-4-6
- Jenkins, David Fraser, John Piper, London: Tate Gallery Publications, 1983 (ISBN 0-905005-94-5).
- Jenkins,David Fraser, John Piper,A Painter's Camera,London: Tate Gallery Publications,1987 (ISBN 0-946590-81-8)
- Jenkins, David Fraser, John Piper The Robert and Rena Lewin Gift to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1992 (ISBN 1-85444-025-X).
- Jenkins, David Fraser, John Piper The Forties, Philip Wilson Publishers, 2000 (ISBN 0-85667-529-6)
- Jenkins, David Fraser & Spalding, Frances, John Piper in the 1930s Abstraction on the Beach, Merrell Publishers, 2003 (ISBN 1-85894-223-3)
- Ingrams, Richard & Piper, John, Piper's Places: John Piper in England and Wales, London: Chatto & Windus, The Hogarth Press, 1983 (ISBN 0-7011-2550-0).
- Levinson, Orde, Quality and Experiment: The Prints of John Piper A Catalogue Raisonnι 193291, London: Lund Humphries Publishers, 1996 (ISBN 0-85331-690-2).
- West, Anthony, John Piper, Secker & Warburg, 1979 (ISBN 0-436-56591-9).
- Woods, S. John, John Piper Paintings Drawings & Theatre Designs 19321954, New York: Curt Valentin, 1955.
- Wortley, Laura, John Piper Master of Diversity, Henley-on-Thames: River and Rowing Museum, 2000 (ISBN 0-9535571-1-1)
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