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An Exhibition at Olympia London
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Head with raised arm (detail). 1947 Oil on Board
Private Collection. © Estate of the Artist
An important re-evaluation of British artist Keith Vaughan (1912 - 1977). This is the first major retrospective
in a public space for 40 years and will feature more than 100 masterworks in oil, gouache and pencil. Most
are previously unseen and from private collections, and the chronological display will show clearly his
progression from 'neo-romantic' to 'existential' artist of the time.
For further information, please contact:
Pippa Roberts
E: pippa.roberts@eco.co.uk
T: 020 7370 8276
M: 07989 404518
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| | 1912 | Born eldest son of Eric George Storey Vaughan and Gladys Regina Marion Mackintosh on 23 August at Selsey, Sussex
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| | 1918 | Birth of younger brother Dick (Eric Richard Dennis, killed in action, 1940)
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| | 1920 | Father had left home and remarried
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| | 1921 - 1929 | Attended Christ’s Hospital
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| | 1931 | Employed in the art department of Lintas, an advertising agency
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| | 1939 | Registered as a conscientious objector and joined the St John Ambulance
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| | 1941 | Drafted into the Pioneer Corps
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| | 1944 | Exhibited at Reid & Lefevre Gallery ( also in 1946 and 1948)
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| | 1946 | Demobilisation. Working full-time as a painter. Friendship with John Minton, Graham Sutherland, Michael Ayrton, Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun.
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| | 1946 | Shared part of a house in Hamilton Terrace with John Minton
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| | 1946 - 1948 | Taught at Camberwell School of Art
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| | 1951 | Painted mural for the Festival of Britain. During the fifties he taught at the Central School and from 1954 at the Slade
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| | 1952 | Moved to 9 Belsize Park where he lived until his death. Exhibited at Instituto de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires. First New York exhibition, Durlacher Bros
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| | 1953 | Holiday on Ischia with Alan Ross and Cyril Connolly
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| | 1957 | Arts Council travelling retrospective
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| | 1959 | Taught and exhibited, State University of Iowa, USA
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| | 1960 | Elected an associate of the Royal Academy: Vaughan rejected the election
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| | 1962 | Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, retrospective (319 exhibits)
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| | 1964 | Elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art. Purchased and renovated Harrow Hill, three artisans’ cottages in Essex
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| | 1965 | Awarded the CBE
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| | 1966 | Publication of extracts from his journals, 1939 – 1965, edited by Alan Ross
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| | 1975 | First exhibition at Agnew’s
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| | 1977 | Died 4 November
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| | 1981 | Geffrye Museum, London, exhibition of figurative paintings 1946 – 1960
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| | 1989 | Publication of extracts from his journals, 1939 – 1977, edited by Alan Ross
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