James Henry Cecil Collins, best known under the name Cecil Collins MBE (23 March 1908 – 4 June 1989) was an English painter and printmaker originally associated with the Surrealist movement.
Life and works
Collins was born in Plymouth and worked first as a mechanic at a firm based in Devonport. From 1924 to 1927 he attended Plymouth School of Art. In 1927 he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art where he won the William Rothenstein Life Drawing Prize.
From 1951 to 1975 he taught at the Central School of Art. Later, one of his pupils was Ginger Gilmour.[1][2]
Collins was awarded an MBE on June 26, 1979, to be dated June 16th 1979,[3] on the occasion of the celebration of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's birthday.[4]
BBC Radio ran a program about him in 1981 in the Conversations with Artists series, with Edward Lucie-Smith.
A retrospective exhibition of his prints was held at the Tate Gallery in 1981. A retrospective of his paintings took place (before Collins died) in 1989.[4]
His widow Elisabeth died in 2007 and, in 2008, 250 of Collins' paintings worth £1 million were given to museums and galleries in the UK.[4]
In honour of the centenary of his birth, an exhibition of Collins' work took place at Tate Britain in Autumn 2008.[5]
Exhibitions
1935 - Bloomsbury Gallery, London, England
1936 - International Surrealist Exhibition - New Burlington Galleries, London, England
1942 - Toledo Museum of Fine Art, USA
1948 - New Paintings by Cecil Collins - Lefevre Gallery, London, England
1950 - New Paintings - Heffer Gallery, Cambridge, England
1951 - Leicester Galleries
1953 - Society of Mural Painters
1953 - Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
1954 - Arts Council, London
1956 - Leicester Galleries
1959 - Whitechapel Gallery, London
1961 - Gallery Zygos, Athens, Greece
1964 - Carnegie International Exhibition, Pittsburgh, USA
1965 - Arthur Tooth & Sons
1967 - Crane Kalman Gallery
1971 - Britain's Contribution to Surrealism - Hamet Gallery, London, England
1972 - Retrospective Exhibition. Drawings, Paintings, Watercolours, Gouaches and Paintings 1936-1968
1981 - New Works - Anthony d'Offay, London, England
1981 - The Prints of Cecil Collins - Tate Gallery, London, England
1983 - Plymouth Arts Centre
1984 - Festival Gallery, Aldeburgh
1988 - Recent Paintings - Anthony d'Offay, London, England
1989 - Tate Gallery, London
Bibliography
The Gates of Silence (Grey Walls Press, 1944) by Wrey Gardiner with drawings by Cecil Collins
The Vision of the Fool (Grey Walls Press, 1947)
Cecil Collins: Painter of Paradise (1979) by Kathleen Raine
The Quest for the Great Happiness (1988) by William Anderson
In Celebration of Cecil Collins: Visionary Artist and Educator (2008) compiled and edited by Nomi Rowe
The Magic Mirror: Thoughts and Reflections on Cecil Collins (2010) by John Stewart Allitt
Meditations, Poems, Pages from a Sketch Book, by Cecil Collins (Golgonooza Press, 1997)
The Vision of the Fool and other Writings, by Cecil Collins, enlarged edition (Golgonooza Press, 2002)
Cecil Collins, The Artist as Writer and Image Maker, by Brian Keeble (Golgonooza Press, 2009)
References
Gilmour, Ginger. "Ginger Art". Retrieved 15 July 2011.
"Ginger Gilmour Sculptor details". ArtParkS Sculpture Park. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/47888/supplement/8/data.pdf
"Artist's £1m works left to the nation". BBC News. 2 March 2001. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
Andrew Lambirth (3 September 2008). "Cecil Collins — A Centenary Exhibition". The Spectator.
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