Yachts Racing

Location

Country: Belgium
City: Brussels
Place: British Embassy, UK representation to the EU & UK delegation to NATO

Claude Maurice Rogers was born in London, spending his childhood between there and Buenos Aires. He studied at the Slade School of Art (1925–28) alongside William Coldstream, Rodrigo Moynihan and others who later became associated with the Euston Road School in the late 1930s. Rogers exhibited his work with the London Group and the London Artists’ Association during the 1930s. In 1937 he married fellow artist Elsie Few (1909–80). Rogers taught art in London art colleges including Camberwell (1945), the Slade (1948–63) and the University of Reading where he was Professor of Fine Art (1963–72) and later Professor Emeritus. Major retrospectives of his work were held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery (1973) and the Ben Uri Art Gallery (1992–93).

Places

Subjects

rowing boat, seascape/coastal scene, London Group, beach, sailboat, yacht

Materials & Techniques

board, oil, oil painting

Artist

Claude Maurice Rogers (1907 - 1979)

Title

Yachts Racing

Date

1953

Medium

Oil on board

Dimensions

height: 17.00 cm, width: 23.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Leicester Galleries, June 1954

Inscription

BR: C. Rogers 53

Provenance

Consigned by the artist to Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in May 1954

GAC number

2727