Claude Rogers (artist)

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Claude Rogers
Born(1907-01-27)27 January 1907
London, England
Died18 February 1979(1979-02-18) (aged 72)
London, England
Education
  • Slade School of Art
Known forPainting, art education
SpouseElsie Few

Claude Maurice Rogers

London Group of British artists.[1]

Life and work

Rogers was born in London but spent his childhood in Buenos Aires.

Slade School of Art between 1925 and 1929, where he won a scholarship to study in Paris throughout 1930.[3]
He returned to Britain in 1931 and lived in the Norwegian Seamen's Mission building in Gravesend. He joined the London Artists' Association in 1931 and had his first exhibition with them in 1933. Rogers obtained a teaching appointment in 1935 at Raynes Park in London.
London Group and held a solo show at the Leicester Galleries in 1940. Membership of the New English Art Club
followed in 1943.

During the Second World War Rogers served in the

Camberwell School of Art.[4] Two exhibitions resulted, The Euston Road School and others in May 1948 and a group retrospective which the Arts Council toured in 1948 and 1949. Rodgers worked at Camberwell until 1950 and then taught at the Slade until 1963, when he became the Professor of Fine Art at the University of Reading, a post he held until 1972.[4] Rogers had been the President of the London Group between 1952 and 1955.[2] From 1956 onwards Rogers and his wife owned a property at Somerton in Suffolk and they both painted landscapes in the area.[8] In 1959 Rogers was appointed OBE.[9]

Works by Claude Rogers are held in the collections of the

Ben Uri Gallery during 1992 and 1993. A joint Rogers and Few exhibition was held in 2002 at the Belgrave Gallery.[3]

References

  1. ISBN 0-19-860476-9
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    ISBN 2-7000-3081-8
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    ISBN 0-95326-095-X
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    ISBN 1-85149-180-5
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  5. ^ Oxford Reference. "Euston Road School". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  6. ^ Bruce Laughton (2004). "Euston Road School (act.1937-1939)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (OUP). Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  7. ^ Imperial War Museum. "War artists archive - Claude Rogers". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
  8. ^ Tate. "Catalogue entry, Cornfields at Somerton (1961)". Tate. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  9. ISBN 1-85149-106-6
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