George Fredericks (born 1929) is an English
naïve artist
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He has exhibited his paintings since 1957, and developed an early following by British and international artists, including
Peter Blake and
Larry Bell.
[Andera, Margaret, and Lisa Stone. "Accidental Genius: Art from the Anthony Petullo Collection". (Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Art Museum, 2012), page 200.]
His paintings have been exhibited in many major European centres, including in galleries in Amsterdam, Hamburg, London (the Redfern, the Crane Art and Rona Galleries)
and Zurich, and in museums in France.
Works
His ''Bald Trainer and Animals'' (1974) is in the
Bridgeman Art Library
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His paintings ''Acrobat'' (no date) and ''Circus Scene'' (1990) are in the collections of the
Milwaukee Art Museum.
References
1929 births
Naïve painters
Outsider artists
English male painters
Living people
20th-century English painters
20th-century English male artists
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