John Denis Harwood Catleugh (1920-2009) - Framed Mixed Media Abstract in Green

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Description

An interesting mixed media and oil painting; well presented in a black wood effect frame and card backing board. Unsigned. On board.

Condition

With scuffing to the edges of the board, mount and surface scratches to the frame, as shown.

Size

24.9 x 26.7cm (9.8" x 10.5")
Framed Size: 35.6 x 38.1cm (14" x 15")

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Artist Biography

Abstract painter born in King’s Lynn, the son of John Harwood Catleugh OBE a former mayor of that city. After war service he qualified as an architect in 1949 and soon after began to make a series of Perspex and wood reliefs. About this time Catleugh visited Venice where he saw the Jackson Pollock and was strongly influenced and started series of ‘Space/Time’ paintings. He turned his hand to stage design and in 1951 designed sets for Picasso’s play, 'Desire Caught by Tail' staged at the Watergate Theatre. Multi-talented, the following year he began to design furniture and in 1953 was a Prize-winner in the Furniture Makers Guild, Coronation Design Competition. He also designed textiles, collages and from 1954-59 worked on a series of relief paintings on a plaster ground. In 1959, he began a series of Scottish landscape pictures continuing in this vein until 1962. As an exhibitor he participated in many group shows including venues such as Gimpel Fils, Redfern Gallery, The Mirror and the Square, Artists' International Association, ICA, Royal Academy of Arts, the seminal ' This is Tomorrow' at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London and latterly in 1988 in the 'Reflections of the Fifties' at England & Co which was a two-person show with John Milnes-Smith. From 1988 until his demise Catleugh lived in London. Catleughs’s career was mainly that of an architect who happened to paint for the love and creativity it afforded him. He was, however, a world authority on the work of William De Morgan and also wrote about William Morris and his tile designs. He had a large and important collection of De Morgan tiles and was the Chairman of the De Morgan Foundation in 1996 and during his term 'The De Morgan Centre for the Study of 19th Century Art and Society' was established in Wandsworth, London. From 2002, until its closure in June 2014, a large collection of the ceramics of De Morgan and the paintings of Evelyn De Morgan together with considerable archive material were on display.

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SKU kn588
Artist John Denis Harwood Catleugh (1920-2009)
Date 20th Century
Dimensions 24.9 x 26.7cm
Medium Mixed Media
Style Abstract
Subject Abstract
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