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Charles Mozley
Born(1914-05-29)29 May 1914
Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts
Known forPainting and illustrations
Spouse
Eileen Kohn
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(m. 1938; died 1989)​

Charles Alfred Mozley (29 May 1914 – 11 January 1991)[1] was a British artist who was also a teacher. He was a prolific book illustrator and designer of book covers, posters and prints.[2]

Biography

Mozley was born in

Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts.[3] He also quickly established himself as a freelance artist.[4]

Invasion Preparations in an English Village (Art.IWM ART 15546)

At the start of the Second World War, Mozley joined the British Army and worked for military intelligence and on camouflage designs.[5] In 1940, Mozley submitted a number of works to the War Artists' Advisory Committee.[6] The Committee purchased one of these pieces, A Kentish Lane, 1940 and also issued Mozley with a wartime sketching permit which allowed him to paint outdoors, mainly in London and Plymouth, during the conflict.[5] WAAC purchased at least one further work from Mozley in June 1944.[6] Mozley was in the Royal Engineers, and retired with the rank of Acting Lieutenant-Colonel.[7]

After the War, Mozley established himself as a prolific commercial artist working in different techniques. He designed film posters for

Shell and for Lyons tea-rooms.[9][10] In 1979, a retrospective of Mozley's work was held at the King Street Gallery in London and his drawings of Venice were exhibited at Somerset House in support of the Venice in Peril Fund.[3]

Family life

While he was at the Royal College of Art, Mozley met Eileen Kohn, who was also an artist, and they married in 1938. Her sister Joan would later marry one of Mozley's contemporaries, Edwin La Dell.[1] Mozley had two sons and three daughters. Mozley died of heart failure in 1991, surviving his wife by two years.[1] From 1971 until his death, Mozley lived in Kew, in a house which he had bought from another artist, John Plant.[11]

A retrospective exhibition of Mozley's lithographic work was held at the Barbican Centre library in 2002. The same year, Grey College in Durham also hosted an overview of his career. Three years later, the Barbican Centre held an exhibition of his artworks.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Obituary - Charles Mozley". The Independent. 20 January 1991.
  2. ^ "Charles Mozley – details". The Collection. British Museum. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
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    ISBN 0-95326-095-X
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    ISBN 1-85149-1082
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  5. ^ a b "Spam Sandwich, Waterloo Street Buffet". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  6. ^ a b Imperial War Museum. "War artists archive, Charles Mozley". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  7. ^ "Venice, Rialto Bridge by CHARLES MOZLEY - Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries". www.leicestergalleries.com. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  8. ^ Elizabeth Dooley (7 January 2007). "Charles Mozley". University of Warwick Art Collection. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  9. ^ a b The British Council. "Charles Mozley". The British Council. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  10. ISBN 978-1-906155-97-1
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  11. ^ Historic England. "356 and 358 Kew Road (1357700)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 December 2016.

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