Alan Munro Reynolds (27 April 1926 – 28 August 2014) was a British painter.Alan Reynolds , Tate
Tate Gallery. Accessed January 2014. Reynolds was born on 27 April 1926 at

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, where his father worked as a stableman. He studied at the Woolwich Polytechnic from 1948 to 1952 and in 1954, and at the

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from 1952 to 1953. He taught at the

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from 1954 to 1961, and from 1961 or 1962 at

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, where he became a senior lecturer in painting in 1985.Robert McPherson, Frances Spalding (1997)
''Drawing distinctions: twentieth-century drawings and watercolours from the British Council Collection''
British Council. . p. 72. His work is in the permanent collections of the

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, the

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, the V&A and the

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among others. He was known first as a landscape painter, but changed to a totally abstract style from 1960. He lived and worked in Kent.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Reynolds, Alan 1926 births 2014 deaths Abstract painters People from Newmarket, Suffolk British abstract artists Alumni of the University of Greenwich English landscape painters Academics of Saint Martin's School of Art Academics of the Central School of Art and Design Alumni of the Royal College of Art