Edward Blake Christmas Piper (1938–1990) was an English painter.
Life and career
Edward Piper was the eldest son of the artist
John Piper and his wife
Myfanwy
''Myfanwy'' (; a woman's name derived ) is a popular Welsh song, composed by Joseph Parry and first published in 1875.
Background
Sources differ as to whether Dr. Parry composed the music for an existing poem by Richard Davies (" Mynyddog Mwy ...
.
Frances Spalding
Frances Spalding (née Crabtree, born 16 July 1950) is a British art historian, writer and a former editor of ''The Burlington Magazine''.
Life
Frances Crabtree studied at the University of Nottingham and gained her PhD for a study of Roger Fr ...
, ''John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: Lives in art''. Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...
, 2009. . He was educated at
Lancing College
Lancing College is a public school (English independent day and boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) in southern England, UK. The school is located in West Sussex, east of Worthing near the village of Lancing, on the south coast of England. ...
and later studied under
Howard Hodgkin
Sir Gordon Howard Eliott Hodgkin (6 August 1932 – 9 March 2017) was a British Painting, painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with Abstract art, abstraction.
Early life
Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin was born on 6 August 1 ...
at the
Bath Academy of Art
Bath School of Art and Design is an art college in Bath, England, now known separately as Bath School of Art and Bath School of Design. It forms part of the Bath Spa University whose main campus is located a few miles from the City at Newton P ...
in
Corsham
Corsham is a historic market town and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It is at the south-eastern edge of the Cotswolds, just off the A4 national route, southwest of Swindon, southeast of Bristol, northeast of Bath and southwest o ...
and later at the
Slade School of Art
The UCL Slade School of Fine Art (informally The Slade) is the art school of University College London (UCL) and is based in London, England. It has been ranked as the UK's top art and design educational institution. The school is organised as ...
in London.
Piper produced photographs for the
Shell County Guides and also undertook graphic design commissions to make a living. He continued on to study figurative art and painting female nudes; he later painted landscapes, in
Corsica
Corsica ( , Upper , Southern ; it, Corsica; ; french: Corse ; lij, Còrsega; sc, Còssiga) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of ...
, Malta, France, Italy and Spain.
A number of Piper's
lithograph
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s and
screenprint
Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink (or dye) onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil. A blade or squeegee is moved across the screen to fill the open mesh ...
s are to be found in the
Tate Gallery
Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the U ...
collection.
Piper's son
Luke Piper is also a painter and his younger son
Henry Piper is a sculptor.
Article
''The Independent
''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was publis ...
'', 12 December 2000.] Retrieved 31 March 2009.
Edward Piper died in June 1990 of cancer at the age of 51.
Books
* Clayton, Sylvia, ''Edward Piper''. David & Charles, 1991. .
* Perry, Jenny,
Edward Piper
'.
See also
* Piper family
References
External links
Messums information
{{DEFAULTSORT:Piper, Edward
1938 births
1990 deaths
20th-century English painters
Alumni of Bath School of Art and Design
Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art
Deaths from cancer in England
English male painters
English printmakers
Edward
Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”.
History
The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Sa ...
People educated at Lancing College
20th-century English male artists