Richard Vicary (8 July 1918 – 8 August 2006) was a British

artist An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, th ...

and

printmaker Printmaking is the process of creating work of art, artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand proce ...

. He was born in

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, UK on 8 July 1918. His father was the clergyman W. W. Vicary who also wrote novels under the pseudonym Simon Jesty. He studied at Tunbridge Wells School of Art and Medway School of Art (Maidstone), where he stayed until the start of the war in 1939. Much of his teaching career was spent at Shrewsbury School of Art, where he taught until 1972. Vicary was particularly known for his

lithographic Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a ...

landscape prints, influenced by the British Neo-Romantic painters and printmakers such as

Graham Sutherland Graham Vivian Sutherland (24 August 1903 – 17 February 1980) was a prolific English artist. Notable for his paintings of abstract landscapes and for his portraits of public figures, Sutherland also worked in other media, including printmaking ...

Ceri Richards Ceri Giraldus Richards (6 June 1903 – 9 November 1971) was a Welsh painter, print-maker and maker of reliefs. Biography Richards was born in 1903 in the village of Dunvant, near Swansea, the son of Thomas Coslett Richards and Sarah Ri ...

and John Piper. He died on 8 August 2006 aged 88.

Bibliography

* The Manual in Lithography (1976) * The Advanced Manual in Lithography (1977) * The Ivy Garland (1982) – as illustrator

References

External links

Obituary
in The Times (UK)
Obituary
in The Independent (UK)

in The Guardian (UK) 1918 births 2006 deaths English printmakers {{UK-printmaker-stub