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John Cecil Stephenson: a Modernist in Hampstead (Paperback)
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John Cecil Stephenson: a Modernist in Hampstead (Paperback)
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By the end of John Cecil Stephenson's art school training - first a
scholarship to Leeds Art School then to The Royal College of Art -
he was in a position to produce still lives, landscapes and
portraits in a professional capacity. Like many painters of his
generation, who had received similarly conventional instruction, he
became a competent teacher, appointed in 1922, as Head of Art at
The Northern Polytechnic. In this mould Stephenson might have
remained a largely undistinguished painter - but in the early 1930s
he found himself at the centre of a group of artists with
avant-garde credentials, and his own art underwent a remarkable
transformation. By 1934 he was exhibiting groundbreaking works such
as Mask (CAT. 7), at the 7 & 5 Society, and in 1937 was a key
contributor to the watershed publication and exhibition Circle,
where his work was showcased alongside that of luminaries such as
Kazimir Malevich, Le Corbusier, Fernand Leger, Alberto Giacometti
and Pablo Picasso. What led Stephenson to become, in the words of
the celebrated art critic Herbert Read, 'one of the earliest
artists in the country to develop a completely abstract style'?
Between March 1919 and November 1965, John Cecil Stephenson lived
in London at No. 6 Mall Studios, off Tasker Road, Hampstead. As the
father figure of what Read christened 'a nest of gentle artists',
his next door neighbours included, during the course of the decade
leading up to World War II, Barbara Hepworth, John Skeaping, Ben
Nicholson and Henry Moore. Such fertile ground was further enriched
by visits from artists fleeing persecution - including Piet, Laszlo
Moholy-Nagy and Alexander Calder - just a few of the many
internationally acclaimed artists who, whilst passing through
London, formed part of the art set who congregated around Read's
house at No. 3 Mall Studios.
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