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Turner: Imagination and Reality
Illustrated with 77 plates, 16 in color.
64 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1966
About the author
Lawrence Gowing
68 books5 followersSir Lawrence Gowing (April 21, 1918 - February 05, 1991) was an English artist, writer, curator, and teacher.
Initially recognized as a portrait and landscape painter, he quickly rose to prominence as an art educator, writer, and, eventually, curator and museum trustee. As a student of art history he was largely self-taught.
Sir Lawrence was born Lawrence Burnett Gowing to Horace Gowing, a draper, and his wife, Luisa. Born in Stoke Newington and raised in London, his first painting of note, Mare Street, Hackney, made reference to his father's shop. After attending the Downs School at Colwall, Herefordshire and Leighton Park School, in 1938 he enrolled in the Euston Road School, where he studied with William Coldstream.
He was Principal of the Slade School of Fine Art at University College, London from 1975 to 1985.
Initially recognized as a portrait and landscape painter, he quickly rose to prominence as an art educator, writer, and, eventually, curator and museum trustee. As a student of art history he was largely self-taught.
Sir Lawrence was born Lawrence Burnett Gowing to Horace Gowing, a draper, and his wife, Luisa. Born in Stoke Newington and raised in London, his first painting of note, Mare Street, Hackney, made reference to his father's shop. After attending the Downs School at Colwall, Herefordshire and Leighton Park School, in 1938 he enrolled in the Euston Road School, where he studied with William Coldstream.
He was Principal of the Slade School of Fine Art at University College, London from 1975 to 1985.
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