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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk

Display artist/maker:

Kenneth George Chapman

Born: 1908, UK, London, East Ham Died: 1993, Aberaeron

Painter, printmaker and commercial artist. Studied at Gravesend School of Art, 1924, after which he became a successful graphic designer, a career he gave up to study painting at both the Slade and the Royal College of Art in 1937. He lived in Essex, where he worked with Micheal Rothenstein (1908-1993), but found his subject matter in the mining communities of the South Wales valleys which he visited from 1953 onwards. He and his wife, Kate Chapman, eventually settled at Aberaeron in Cardiganshire in 1964. He won the Gold Medal at the 1957 National Eisteddfod. He produced dark townscapes which moodily describe Welsh working class life in the 1950s and 60s

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

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Swansea PR1428 Prints

Terraced Houses, Swansea PR774 Prints

Terraced Houses, Trehafod PR1722 Prints

The Bridge PR1421 Prints

The Steps PR1422 Prints

The Steps PR1423 Prints

The Valley Gets Deeper PR1419 Prints

To Visit Britain's Landmarks PR1531 Prints

Ton Pentre [or Pentre] PR1431 Prints

Trehafod PR1433 Prints

Trehafod PR1735 Prints

Trehafod PR1723 Prints

Treorchy [or View in the Rhondda] PR1521 Prints

Treorchy PR1427 Prints

Unitarian Church PR1724 Prints

Uppingham School PR1884 Prints

[Urban landscape / street scene with pedestrians and a steam train on an embankment] PR1978 Prints

Waiting for a bus May 6th 1960 PR1418 Prints

Woman with Umbrella PR1881 Prints

[Central Line Extension Epping] PR1514 Prints

[Contents page] PR1523 Prints

[Ediswan Stand, Radiolympia] PR1511 Prints

[Farex] PR1515 Prints

[Generation] PR1524 Prints

[Saga] PR1516 Prints

[The diesel and the farm tractor] PR1510 Prints

[The Director] PR1509 Prints

[The House Network] PR1530 Prints

[The Rhondda Suite] PR1522 Prints

Dear Henry WD56 WaterColourOrDrawings

[Study of a female nude] WD57 WaterColourOrDrawings

Zennor WD58 WaterColourOrDrawings

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