Stanley William Hayter
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Born | London, England | 27 December 1901
Died | 4 May 1988 Paris, France | (aged 86)
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Stanley William Hayter CBE (27 December 1901 – 4 May 1988) was an English painter and master printmaker associated in the 1930s with surrealism and from 1940 onward with abstract expressionism.[1] Regarded as one of the most significant printmakers of the 20th century, in 1927 Hayter founded the influential Atelier 17 studio in Paris. Since his death in 1988, it has been known as Atelier Contrepoint.[2] Among the artists who frequented the atelier were Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Nemesio Antúnez,[3] Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Wassily Kandinsky, Mauricio Lasansky, K.R.H. Sonderborg,[2][4][5] Flora Blanc, Carl Heywood,[6] and Catherine Yarrow.[7]
He is noted for his innovative work in the development of viscosity printing (a process that exploits varying viscosities of oil-based inks to lay three or more colours on a single intaglio plate).[8][9]
Hayter was equally active as a painter, "Hayter, working always with maximum flexibility in painting, drawing, engraving, collage and low relief has invented some of the most central and significant images of this century before most of the other artists of his generation", wrote Bryan Robertson.
Early life and education
Hayter was born in
Career
Paris
In 1926, Hayter went to Paris, where he studied briefly at the Académie Julian. That same year, he met Polish printmaker Józef Hecht, who introduced Hayter to copper engraving using the traditional burin technique. Hecht helped Hayter acquire a press for starting a printmaking studio for artists young and old, experienced and inexperienced, to work together in exploring the engraving medium.[5] In 1927, Hayter opened the studio, and in 1933 he moved it to No. 17, rue Campagne-Première, where it became internationally known as Atelier 17.[10][11]
Hayter worked with many contemporary artists to encourage their exploration of printmaking as a medium. Artists such as
New York City
At the outbreak of World War II, Hayter moved Atelier 17 to New York City and taught printmaking at the
Hayter acted as advisor to the
Paris
Returning to Paris in 1950, Hayter took Atelier 17 with him. Hayter was a prolific printmaker, completing more than 400 works in the medium before his death. In 1949 his book, New Ways of Gravure, was published by Pantheon Books, INC. NY. Oxford University Press published About Prints in 1962.
His students included Carmen Gracia.[16]
Hayter continued to develop painting alongside printmaking. His interest in
In 2005 the Tate Archive acquired Hayter's papers.
Personal life
Hayter was married three times: to Edith Fletcher (dissolved 1929), to American sculptor Helen Phillips (dissolved 1971), and to Désirée Moorhead, with whom he lived in Paris at the time of his death in 1988.[2] He had three sons: Patrick (who died young) from his first marriage, and Augy and Julian Hayter from his second marriage to Helen Phillips. Augy, an actor, writer and translator, died in 2004. Julian, a composer, musician and photographer, died in 2007.
Honours
- 1951 – Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
- 1951 – Awarded, by the French government, the Légion d'honneur.
- 1958 – Chosen as representative artist for Great Britain, at the Venice Biennale.
- 1967 – Appointed a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
- 1968 – Advanced to Commander of the Order of the British Empire. (CBE)
- 1972 – Received the Grand Prix des Arts de la Ville de Paris.
- 1978 – Elected Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Science.
- 1982 – Elected Honorary Foreign Member of the Royal Academy.
- 1983 – Awarded a Doctorate of Fine Arts of the New School of Social Research, New York and Honorary Doctorate of Hamline University, Minnesota.
- 1986 – Promoted to Commandeur in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
References
- ^ "Stanley William Hayter (1901–1989)". Art Collection. British Council. Archived from the original on 15 July 2010. Retrieved 5 October 2010.
- ^ a b c d Brenson, Michael (6 May 1988). "Stanley William Hayter, 86, Dies; Painter Taught Miró and Pollock". New York Times, 6 May 1988. Retrieved 18 October 2008.
- ^ Manning, Jo. Etched in Time. Victoria, BC, Canada: Friesen Press, 2015, page 132
- ISBN 978-0-7148-4487-9.
- ^ a b c Hacker, Peter M.S. (2002). "Biographical Note on S.W. Hayter". Stanley William Slater website. Retrieved 18 October 2008.
- ^ "Life's work of Carl Heywood". mardenart gallery. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
- ISBN 9780292756656.
- ISBN 978-0-299-16110-1. Retrieved 17 September 2010.
- ISBN 978-0-19-531391-8. Retrieved 17 September 2010.
- ^ a b Cohen, David (2007). "Stanley William Hayter (British, 1901–1988)". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 18 October 2008.
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- ^ Conscience and Conflict, British artists and the Spanish civil war, Simon Martin – Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 2014
- ^ a b Roosevelt, Michael A. "Stanley William Hayter & Atelier 17". Atelier Countrepoint website. Retrieved 18 October 2008.
- ^ Hayter, Stanley William (1949) New Ways of Gravure
- ^ http://www.washingtontimes.com/photos/2009/jun/07/46831/ Washington Times reproduction of "Centauresse," a 1944 series of small prints
- ISBN 978-0-7136-8911-2. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ^ Raftery, Andrew. "Genealogies: Tracing Stanley William Hayter," Art in Print Vol. 2 No. 3 (September–October 2012).
Further reading
- Peter Black and Désirée Moorhead, The Prints of Stanley William Hayter: A Complete Catalogue (Mount Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell, 1992)
- S. W. Hayter, New Ways Of Gravure (1966)
- Carla Esposito, "Hayter e l'Atelier 17" (Milan: Electa, 1990)
- Pierre-François Albert et François Albert, "Hayter – The paintings" (Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2011)
External links
- Atelier Contrepoint, Website
- "Stanley William Hayter", Government Art Collection, Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- "Stanley William Hayter", Tate Gallery
- Portrait of Stanley William Hayter by Braun-Vega (1983).