Little Johns Haven

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Bernard Cheese was born in Sydenham in 1925 and trained at the Beckenham School of Art. After four years in the army, he attended the Royal College of Art from 1947-50. Here he studied under Edward Bawden, John Nash and Edwin La Dell. La Dell in particular influenced Bernard Cheese and his use of lithography. From 1950-68, he taught printmaking at St Martin’s School of Art, was Senior Lecturer at Goldsmith’s College, London 1970-78 and taught part-time at Central School of Art and Crafts 1980-89. In 1998, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers.

Places

Scotland, Aberdeenshire, Little John's Haven, North Sea

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, genre, seascape/coastal scene, sea, cliff, man, oar

Materials & Techniques

lithograph

Artist

Bernard Cheese (1925 - 2013)

Title

Little Johns Haven

Edition

23/50

Date

1957

Medium

Lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from the Zwemmer Gallery, October 1958

Inscription

below image: Little Johns Haven / Cheese '57 23/50

GAC number

4742