Coastguard’s Cottage at Sunrise

Keith Vaughan (1912 - 1977)

Oil on board

1958

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: Spain
    City: Madrid
    Place: British Embassy
  • About the artist
    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.
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    Subjects
    coastguard, abstract, semi-figurative, landscape C20th, dawn/sunrise, man, cottage
    Materials & Techniques
    board, oil, oil painting
  • Details
    Artist
    Keith Vaughan (1912 - 1977)
    Title
    Coastguard’s Cottage at Sunrise
    Date
    1958
    Medium
    Oil on board
    Dimensions
    height: 41.00 cm, width: 52.00 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Leicester Galleries, July 1968
    Inscription
    br: Vaughan verso: Keith Vaughan / 1958
    Provenance
    Collection of Helmut Gernsheim; from whom purchased by Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in August 1968, as ‘Coastguard’
    GAC number
    8172