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

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

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Display artist/maker:

Kenneth Rowntree

Born: 1915, UK, England, Scarborough   Died: 1997

Painter, illustrator, teacher and draughtsman. He specialised in landscapes and urban scenes. Born into a Quaker family, Rowntree studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford, 1930–34, and then at the Slade School of Fine art in London,1934-1935. In 1939 he married the architect Diana Buckley (1915-2008) who later became the first architectural correspondent for the Guardian. During the Second World War Rowntree registered as a conscientious objector and worked instead as a war artist for the Pilgrim Trust Recording Britain project. In 1948 he illustrated ‘A Prospect of Wales,’ a collection of watercolours and essays. After the war he became a member of the Society of Mural Painters, 1943, and taught mural painting at the Royal College of Art, 1949-1958. He began exhibiting his work from 1946, and also produced several famous murals, including those for the Lion and Unicorn Pavilion at the Festival of Britain, 1951. Rowntree was Professor of Fine Art at Newcastle University from 1959 until 1980. During this period he produced many abstract and semi abstract paintings.

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

Chanson D'Automne by Verlaine PR1998 Prints




 
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