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| ARTIST: | Ken Howard RA, NEAC. |
| DATES: | British b. 1932 |
| TITLE: | Reclining Nude, Cornwall |
| MEDIUM: | Oil on canvas |
| SIZE: | 40.6 x 50.4 cm |
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Signed lower left Dated 1987 on original exhibition label affixed verso |
| $NZ: | Category E |
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Ken HOWARD RA, NEAC. British b. 1932 As a young artist Howard first studied at the Hornsey School of Art from 1949 to 1953. Following a period of National Service with the Royal Marines, he continued his studies at the Royal College of Art in London, before winning a British Council Scholarship to Florence from 1958 to 1959. He was later appointed official ‘Artist in Ireland’ by the Imperial War Museum in 1973. He was also recognised for his contribution to the arts when he was elected as an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1983, in 1988 when he became President of the New English Art Club, and in 1991 when he was elected a Royal Academician. Howard has his first solo show at the Plymouth Art Centre in 1955, and has gone on to exhibit extensively, both nationally and internationally, at galleries such as the John Whibley Gallery, and was given a retrospective in 1972 at the Plymouth Art Gallery. He paints in a traditional manner, based on strong empirical observation and a high degree of draughtsmanship combined with tonal precision. The depiction of light is a strong and recurrent element within many of his works with a strong emphasis on the Impressionist concept of the play of light upon various surfaces. A notable theme within his works is the nude model in his studio, which he combines with strong vertical and horizontal lines and structures to create an aesthetically pleasing work that has a strong Classical underpinning to it. “I am not a landscape painter, but rather a vertical, horizontal and linear painter, which is why I have a passion for the lines that occur within my studios, and include them in my paintings. When I study a model, I think of that figure not in rhythmical terms but in vertical or horizontal positions and planes.” Howard is one of the most popular artists painting today and his contributions to the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy are always amongst the first to sell. Works by Ken Howard can be found in many public collections including The National Army Museum, The Imperial War Museum and the Guildhall Art Gallery London. Howard is also a keen supporter of his fellow artists as the President of the New English Art Club and a member of various committees of the Royal Academy. |
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