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Anthony Green Hon RBA NEAC RA Hon RI

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Jug of Dried Flowers

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Anthony Green Hon RBA NEAC RA Hon RI
Oil on shaped board
30.5 x 30.5 cm
£4,500
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2020
Available for collection: 
26 November 2020

Retrospective I - Small Telephone Kiosk, 1963

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Anthony Green Hon RBA NEAC RA Hon RI
Oil
91 x 71 cm
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2019

Retrospective II - Garden of Eden

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Anthony Green Hon RBA NEAC RA Hon RI
Oil
122 x 122 cm
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2019

Retrospective IV - Working Drawing for Madeleines Ashes, 2017

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Anthony Green Hon RBA NEAC RA Hon RI
Mixed media
61 diameter x cm
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2019

Anthony Adoring Mary

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Anthony Green Hon RBA NEAC RA Hon RI
Etching, watercolour & pencil (edition of 25, 19 available)
46 x 84 cm
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2018

Anthony Adoring Mary

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Anthony Green Hon RBA NEAC RA Hon RI
Etching, watercolour & pencil (edition of 25, 19 available)
46 x 84 cm
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2018

Anthony Adoring Mary

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Anthony Green Hon RBA NEAC RA Hon RI
Etching, watercolour & pencil (edition of 25, 19 available)
46 x 84 cm
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2018

Monkey Puzzle and Tub of Pink Hydrangeas (edition of 6, 5 available)

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Anthony Green Hon RBA NEAC RA Hon RI
Etching
51 x 51 cm
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2017
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About Anthony Green Hon RBA NEAC RA Hon RI

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Artist details

Artist's Statement

In 1957, Anthony Green fell in love with a Slade student. They married in 1961. Since then, Mary Cozens-Walker has been the inspiration for 600 narrative paintings. Sometimes the subjects are sad, dealing with death, dementia and divorce. More often, he paints love, joy and sexual fulfilment. Mary is the star of his story. Their daughters’ lives are lovingly recorded. He deals with childhood and old age. He imagines his mother as a teenager, and records her passage to Heaven. He loves painting flowers, and has accepted commissions to paint portraits, cars, jet engines, barns and Burgundy connoisseurs.

Method of Working

Anthony Green makes large, irregularly shaped pictures, in oil paint on battened, primed boards. In love, in Paris, on a French government scholarship, and soon to return to marry Miss Cozens-Walker, our hero resolved to paint about his virginity and married love, rather than art about art. He would make his contribution to Modernism by telling his small private story in pictures – la petite histoire par un petit maître – simply a little history by a jobbing artist. Figurative art would still be relevant. The pictures in his mind’s eye had no edges. His compositions need not be traditional rectangles. His first shaped painting was made in 1964, influenced by images seen in Early Italian Gothic arches and French Romanesque tympanums. Perhaps his developing compositions might have irrelevant perimeters? Paintings fashioned by the multiplicity of pictures in his memory. Art would simply serve his needs.

Biographical Details

1939 Born in Luton

1956-60 Studied at the Slade School of Fine Art

1961 - Married Mary Cozens-Walker, who became his muse

1971 Elected to The Royal Academy

1991 Elected a Fellow of University College, London

2000-08 Appointed a Trustee of the Royal Academy of Arts

2002 Elected a Member of the New English Art Club

2003 Featured Artist at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

Society Memberships

New English Art Club
Royal Institute of Oil Painters
Royal Society of British Artists

Other Society Memberships

Royal Academy

London Group

Scholarships, Awards, Prizes

1960: French government scholarship to Paris

2963: Gulbenkian Purchase Award

1967: Harkness Fellowship to USA

1977: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: Exhibit of the Year

1986: Joint Winner, ‘Hunting Group Art Prize’

1991: Elected Fellow of University College, London

1995: 21st Century Association Prize, Osaka Sculpture Triennale, Japan

1996: Shortlisted for Jerwood Painting Prize

2006: Shortlisted for Jerwood Painting Prize

2008: Shortlisted for The Threadneedle Prize

2008: Alan Gourley Memorial Award, Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition

2011: Honorary Doctorate, University of Buckingham

2015: Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge

Exhibitions

New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2017
New English Art Club Annual Open Exhibition 2016
New English Art Club Annual Open Exhibition 2015
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2015
Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition 2015
New English Art Club Annual Open Exhibition 2014

Other exhibitions

1978: ‘Anthony Green Paintings’, Rochdale Art Gallery, and touring to Sheffield, Southampton, Birmingham, Belfast and London

1987-78: ‘Anthony Green 1960-1986’, Niigata City Art Museum, and touring to other Japanese museums

1989: ‘Anthony Green’s Mirror’, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, and touring to Scunthorpe, Cleveland and Warwick

1994: ‘A Green Perspective’, Pallant House, Chichester

1996: ‘Constructions, Projections, Sculpture and Paintings by Anthony Green RA, Christchurch Mansion & Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich

1999-2000: ‘Resurrection – A Pictorial Sculpture for the Millennium’, a national tour of British cathedrals and the Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle

2000: ‘Passion’, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath

2006: ‘The Artist’s Mother’, Ulster Museum

Publications

1984: Martin Bailey (ed), Anthony Green: A Green Part of the World, London: Thames & Hudson

2010: Anthony Green: Flowers, Clouds, Corsets and a Cactus, London: Richmond Hill Gallery

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