The
River & Rowing Museum
presents regular
special exhibitions.
An exhibition on the 20th century British artist
John Piper
(1903-1992),
who lived at
Fawley Bottom near
Henley-on-Thames,
in association with the
Bohun Gallery,
was held in 2000.
The
Tree of Life (1977) cannot be displayed in the exhibition
itself as originally planned due to its fragility and large size.
Therefore it is included for viewing on the website.
If you have a fast Internet connection or are prepared to wait, a
high resolution image (300Kbytes) is available.
Further
selected examples of rarely seen John Piper artworks are
available below.
An accompanying
booklet with a fuller catalogue of artworks on display
is available from the museum.
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Exhibition:
John Piper - Master of Diversity.
Ceramics, collage, photography, stained glass and painting unfold the breadth of Piper's diversity. |
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Associated exhibition at the Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames. |
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Lecture:
John Piper - Master of Diversity.
Orde Levinson, author of |
2 - Still Life with China Tea - 1933
Signed in yellow ink lower right John Piper and dated on
reverse
Gouache with doilies used as stencils
47.6 × 38.1cm
Exhibited
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, May 1979, cat.
Waddington Galleries, January 1994, cat.
Illustrated Anthony West,
13 - Brittany Beach Abstract - 1963
Watercolour, collage and mixed media
57 × 78.4cm
Piper's first one-man show at
Marlborough Fine Art in 1963 was largely
based on the studies he was making around the rocky shores of Brittany,
Anglesey and Pembrokeshire. This painting relates closely to the
pictures in that exhibition.
23 - Tivetshall St. Mary, Norfolk - before 1983
Bears inscription on reverse of frame,
TIVETSHAL ST MARY, Norfolk (sic)
and
Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath, label on stretcher. Oil on canvas
71.2 × 91.3cm
A photograph of Piper in his studio with this painting in 1983,
is in
Orde Levinson, 1996,
49 - Foliate Head - c. 1970s
Gouache and watercolour wash
50.8 × 60.7cm
This is possibly the preparatory design for a tapestry rug representing
the four seasons which was produced in a limited edition of ten. One of
the series was in use at
Fawley Bottom Farmhouse and is illustrated in
June Osborne,
82 - The Tree of Life · Cartoon
for a window at Charing Cross Hospital Chapel, London - 1977
Inscribed in black felt tip on reverse,
Tree of Life/Charing Cross Hospital/1980
Gouache, collage, ink and mixed media
294 × 152cm
Lit:
June Osborne, p 112, completed
work illustrated, p 114
Illustrated on the Internet:
www.rrm.co.uk/piper
| Title | Author | Date |
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| John Piper | David Fraser Jenkins | 1992 |
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Quality and Experiment:
The Prints of John Piper (Catalogue raisonné) |
Orde Levinson | 1996 |
| John Piper and Stained Glass | June Osborne | 1997 |
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John Piper:
Master of Diversity (ISBN 0-9535571-1-0) |
Laura Wortley | 2000 |
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Further information from
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