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:

Robert Tavener

Born: 1920, UK, England, London, Hampstead   Died: 2004, , Eastbourne

Painter, printmaker and illustrator. Worked in an office before serving in the Second World War where he partook in the D Day landings at Arromanches, Normandy. At the end of the war he was able to study art with the Rhine Army in the art and design faculty of Gottingen University, 1945-46, before studying at Hornsey College of Art, 1946-50. He taught at Medway College of Art, 1951-53, St Martin's School of Art (part-time) and Eastbourne College of Art, 1953-80, where he rose to be Vice-Principal. He illustrated numerous educational books and received commissions from the B.B.C., London Transport and the General Post Office. He was a Senior Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. He produced prints and watercolours of landscapes, architecture and seaside themes mainly with a bold application of pattern and colour

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

At the Seaside PR2129 Prints

Boys Fishing PR5223 Prints

Donkeys under the Pier PR5224 Prints

Four Ducks and a Barn PR5225 Prints

Harvesting PR5226 Prints

Harvesting, Glyndebourne PR5227 Prints

Horseguards and Cadiz Cannon PR5236 Prints

Horseguards IV (Morning) PR5237 Prints

Horseguards Mounted PR2555 Prints

Horseguards Parade (No.3) PR2556 Prints

Horseguards Parade VII (Evening) PR5238 Prints

Kentish Oast Houses PR5228 Prints

London Park PR5229 Prints

Pebble Beach PR2554 Prints

Pierhead II PR5230 Prints

Pollarded Trees IV PR5231 Prints

Poppies and Downs VI PR5232 Prints

Roundabout Horses PR2557 Prints

Sussex Spinney IV PR5234 Prints

Tree and Barn PR2567 Prints



 
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