School of Art

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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:

Eric Malthouse

Born: 1914, UK, England, Birmingham, Erdington   Died: 1997, South Wales, Barry

Painter and printmaker. Lived in Canada as a young teenager and on his return studied at Birmingham College of Arts and Crafts, 1931-37. He exhibited with the Artists' International Association and the Surrealist Exhibition in 1937. He then taught briefly at a school in Shipley, Yorkshire, 1938, before serving in the Second World War. After leaving the armed services he taught at Cardiff College of Art, 1944-73, and became a founder member of the 56 Group Wales. He lived in Cornwall, 1973-81, before moving to Keynsham, near Bristol, and then Barry, South Wales. He produced colourful abstracts as well as varied subjects rendered in blocks of pastel shades

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

Cancrizans PR1390 Prints

Constriction Yellow PR1389 Prints

Facade for Lang Vei PR822 Prints

First Facade Suite I PR1392 Prints

First Facade Suite II PR1393 Prints

First Facade Suite IV PR1395 Prints

First Facade Suite V PR1396 Prints

First Facade Suite VI PR1397 Prints

Gemini Rendezvous PR1388 Prints



 
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