Frederick Gore

FREDERICK GORE

Born in Surrey in 1913, Frederick Gore was the son of the artist Spencer Gore, who was President of the Camden Town Group. As a young man, Gore ostensibly studied Classics at Trinity College, Oxford, but spent more time painting at the Ruskin School of Art. Upon leaving Oxford, he trained at the Westminster School of Art and then the Slade School of Fine Art. After serving in the army, he began teaching at Saint Martin’s School of Art in 1946, where he became Head of Painting from 1951 until he retired in 1979. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1973 and was chairman of the Academy’s Exhibition Committee for over a decade. He was awarded a CBE in 1987.

 

BIOGRAPHY

1913 Born Richmond, Surrey

1914 His father, the painter Spencer Gore, who with Walter Sickert, was one of the Founders of The

Camden Town Group, died of pneumonia

1932-4 Studied painting at the Ruskin School while reading Classics at Oxford

1934-7 Westminster School of Art, influenced by Mark Gertler and Bernard Meninsky

1934-7 Slade School of Art

1937 Summer painting at Les Baux de Provence

 

1937 Redfern Gallery, London – One man show

1938 Painting in Greece

1938 Galerie Borghese, Paris, Exhibition of his Greek paintings with introduction by art critic

Louis Vauxcelles who was the first to use the expression ‘Fauves’.

1939 Stafford Gallery,London – Greek paintings

1940 1946 Army Service

1946-1979 Taught at St Martin’s School of Art, Chelsea School of Art and Epsom School of Art

1949-1962 Redfern Gallery, London – Five one man shows during this period

1951-1979 Appointed Head of Painting Department, St Martin’s School of Art

1954 Tate Gallery, Contemporary Art Society Exhibition

1956 Tate Gallery, Contemporary Art Society Exhibition

1956 Published ‘Abstract Art’ (Methuen)

1958 Tate Gallery, Contemporary Art Society Exhibition

1958 Mayor Gallery, London – One man Exhibition

1960 Mayor Gallery,London – One man Exhibition

1963 Juster Gallery, New York, One man Exhibition

1964 Elected Associate of the Royal Academy

1965 Published – ‘Painting, some Basic Principles’ (Vista/Reinhold)

1969 Published – Piero della Francesca: ‘The Baptism’ (Cassell)

1973 Elected Royal Academician

1976-87 Chairman, Exhibitions Committee, Royal Academy

1979 Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury, Suffolk – Retrospective Exhibition

1979 Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk – Retrospective Exhibition

1983 Phoenix Gallery, Lavenham, Suffolk – One man Exhibition

1983 Fosse Gallery, Stow on the Wold: Ten Royal Academicians

1985 Phoenix Gallery Lavenham, Suffolk – ‘Paintings at Home and Abroad’ – One man Exhibition.

1986 Musee de la Boulangerie, Bonnieux, Vaucluse

1987 Phoenix Gallery Kingston upon Thames – ‘Eight British Artists’ (opened by Roger de Grey PRA)

1988 Awarded C.B.E.

1988 Gallery 10, Grosvenor St., London, ‘Paintings of Greece since the 1930’s’

1989 Royal Academy – Retrospective Exhibition

1990 Fosse Gallery, Stow on the Wold: One man Exhibition

1992 The London Transport Museum, Covent Garden

1993 Gallery at John Jones, Finsbury Park London, ’Frederick Gore at Eighty’

1996 Fosse Gallery, Stow on the Wold: One man Exhibition

1999 Fosse Gallery, Stow on the Wold: One man: ‘Paintings of the South of France’

2003 Fosse Gallery, Stow on the Wold

2006 Jonathan Wylder Gallery, Belgravia, London – in Association with Highgate Fine Art

One man Exhibition – ‘Frederick Gore 2006’

2007 Richmond Hill Gallery – One Man Exhibition

2009 Richmond Hill Gallery – One Man Exhibition

2010 Richmond Hill Gallery – One Man Exhibition

2011 Richmond Hill Gallery – One Man Exhibition

2012 Richmond Hill Gallery – One Man Exhibition

2013 Richmond Hill Gallery – One Man Exhibition

2014 Richmond Hill Gallery – One Man Exhibition

2015 Richmond Hill Gallery – One Man Exhibition

2016 Richmond Hill Gallery – One Man Exhibition

 

 

WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Southampton Art Gallery

Plymouth Art Gallery

Beaverbrook Foundation, New Brunswick, Canada

Leicester County Council

Doncaster Art Gallery

Contemporary Art Society

Department of the Environment

Reading Art Gallery

The Rutherston Collection

London Transport Museum

The Royal Academy of Arts

Hotel de Ville, Bonnieux, Provence

The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

The Government Art Collection

Arts Council of Great Britain

Saatchi Collection of Modern Art

Tate Britain Collection

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

Abstract Art 1956

Painting: some basic principals 1965

Piero della Francesca: The Baptism 1969

Unpublished translation of the poems of Baudelaire