Church at Schaveningen

Artist's biography

Name:
John Aldridge
Lived:
1905 - 1983
Qualifications:
RA

Aldridge lived in Great Bardfield from 1932 until his death. An Oxford graduate, he was a self-taught artist who had a distinguished career as a painter and teacher (at the Slade). Although in 1931 was associated with 'Seven and Five' Society after it had entered its avant garde modernist phase, he became a noted landscape painter who produced many scenes in of Essex and of his garden, which was his passion. He worked extensively in oils, and in other media. He formed Bardfield Wallpapers with Edward Bawden, and although this venture was curtailed by the war, the designs were continued by Cole and Son in the 1950s.<br>

Artwork Description

Title:
Church at Schaveningen
Date:
c.1924
Media:
Drawing
Catalogue number:
1696
Image Height/Width:
277 x 221mmmm

Aldridge was at Oxford in the 1920s, graduating in 1928, so this (and Fry catalogue item 1697) was presumably a very early work. He did not attend art school, and so these early works would have been part of the process of his self-development as an artist.

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