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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