Longlisted for the Berger Art History prize 2016 Kenneth Rowntree
has always been highly regarded by those familiar with his work.
The essays in this catalogue, which embrace new research and
scholarship, reveal him to be an artist of great scope and variety.
His earlywork reflects the inspiration and creative dialogue that
came out of his friendship with Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) on
account of whom Rowntree moved to Great Bardfield during the 1940s.
During this period he was particularly preoccupied with Kenneth
Clark's Recording Britain project. At the end of the war he joined
the teaching staff at the Royal College of Art. In 1951 he was
commissioned to undertake murals for the Lion and Unicorn Pavilion
for the Festival of Britain. As Professor of Fine Art in Newcastle
(1959-1980) he was at the epicentre of an important northern school
of modernism that revolved around his friends Victor Pasmore
(1908-1988) and Richard Hamilton (1922-2011). Even in retirement,
his work, in its return to figuration from abstraction, displays
his consistent qualities of humour and inventiveness. Rowntree's
oeuvre is both influenced by and anticipates a wide variety of
artistic styles, from Ravilious to David Hockney, from the Euston
Road School to the Dadaism of Kurt Schwitters. His work, however,
remains unmistakably his own. This catalogue is published on the
occasion of the centenary of Rowntree's birth, and accompanies
exhibitions at The Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden and Pallant
House, Chichester. This is the first substantial reassessment of
Rowntree's work since John Milner's monograph (2002). It is hoped
that this current initiative will contribute futher to ensuring
Rowntree the significant place he deserves within the history of
20th century British art.
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