Farm Buildings

Location

Country: Hungary
City: Budapest
Place: British Embassy

Keith Vaughan was born in Sussex in 1912. He was a self-taught artist whose first solo exhibition was in London in 1944. In the same decade he travelled to North Africa, Mexico and the USA, where he was resident artist at Iowa State University in 1959. He taught art at the Slade School of Art between 1959 and 1977 and was awarded a CBE in 1965. He had a retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery, London in 1962 and represented Britain at the Sao Paolo Biennale a year later. Vaughan was diagnosed with cancer in 1975 and died by suicide in 1977. His reputation has continued to grow since his untimely death.

Places

Subjects

abstract, semi-figurative, landscape C20th, outbuilding, farm

Materials & Techniques

hardboard, oil, oil painting

Artist

Keith Vaughan (1912 - 1977)

Title

Farm Buildings

Date

1964

Medium

Oil on hardbord

Dimensions

height: 101.50 cm, width: 92.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Leicester Galleries, November 1965

Inscription

none

Provenance

Consigned by the artist to Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in December 1965

GAC number

7271