EUAN UGLOW

1932

Born, London.

1948-50

Attended Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, awarded David Murray Scholarship.

1951

Received State Scholarship for the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London. First exhibited with the London Group.

1952

Received Spanish State Scholarship to work in Segovia, Spain.

1953

Awarded Abbey Minor Scholarship (Prix de Rome). Traveled to France, Holland, Belgium; spent six months in Italy.

1954

Did building work and farming as a conscientious objector.

1957

Worked in France and Spain. Visited Giacometti with David Sylvester.

1959

Moved to studio in Battersea.

1960

Elected member of the London Group.

1961

Uglow taught part-time at the Slade and Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts. Second prize in junior section of John Moore exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.

1962

Worked in France and Italy.

1963

Worked in Morocco.

1968

Worked in Turkey.

1970

Won Edwin Austin Abbey Premier Scholarship.

1972

Uglow was winner of first prize for the painting 'Nude, from Twelve Regular Vertical Positions from the Eye' 1967 at 'The John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 8', Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.

1972-74

Worked in Italy during the summer months.

1976

Worked in Italy.

1980

Worked in Cyprus.

1983

Worked in Cyprus.

1984

Invited to the British Council to visit India for the exhibition The Proper Study, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.

1985

Worked in Cyprus.

1987

Invited to teach in China.

1990-95

Artist Trustee, National Gallery, London.

1997

Honorary member of the London Institute.

2000

Died 31st August in London.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1961

Euan Uglow. Paintings and Drawings, Beaux Arts Gallery, London

1969

Uglow Drawings, Gardener Centre, Sussex University, London

1974

Euan Uglow, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (Arts Council touring exhibition)

Uglow: Drawings, Colnaghi, London

1977

Euan Uglow: recent paintings and drawings, Browse and Darby, London

1983

Euan Uglow: paintings and drawings, Browse and Darby, London

1989

Euan Uglow: Nudes, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

1991

Euan Uglow: Ideas, 1952-91, Browse and Darby, London

1993

Euan Uglow, Salander O'Reilly Gallery, New York, in association with Browse and Darby

1997

Euan Uglow, Browse and Darby, London

1999

Euan Uglow: Drawings, Browse and Darby, London

2001

Euan Uglow: Night Paintings, Browse and Darby, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

1960-61

Modern British Portraits, The Arts Council Gallery, Cambridge, and tour (Arts Council exhibition)

1961

New Painting 1958-61, Torquay Art Gallery, and tour (Arts Council exhibition)

John Moores 3, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

1962

Drawing towards painting, Six young painters, Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum

1964

London Group 1914-64, Jubilee exhibition - Fifty Years of British Art, Tate Gallery, London, and tour (Arts Council exhibition)

Six Young Painters, Blackburn Art Gallery, and tour (Arts Council exhibition)

1968

Helen Lessore and the Beaux Arts Gallery, Marlborough Fine Art, London

1971

Painting and Perception, The MacRobert Arts Centre Gallery, University of Sterling

The Slade 1871-1971, Royal Academy of Arts, London

1972

John Moore's 8, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

1975

Body and Soul, Peter Moores Liverpool Project 3, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

1976

The Human Clay, Hayward Gallery, London, and tour (Arts Council exhibition)

1977

British Painting, 1953-1977, Royal Academy of Arts, London

1979

Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London (Arts Council exhibition)

The Knot of Life, L.A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles

1980

The British Art Show, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, and tour (Arts Council exhibition)

1981

Eight Figurative Painters, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven

From Object to Object, Worcester City Museum and Art Gallery, and tour (Arts Council exhibition)

1984

The Proper Study, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi (British Council exhibition)

The Hard Won Image, Tate Gallery, London

1984-85

The Singular Vision, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter and tour

1985

British Arts in Italy, Canterbury College of Art

1986

Studies of the Nude, Marlborough Fine Art, London

1987-88

Invited artist, 8th International Drawing Biennale, Cleveland

1990

The Pursuit of the Real, Manchester City Art Gallery, and tour

1991-92

Bacon to Now, The outsider in British Figuration, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

1992-93

British Figurative Painting of the 20th Century, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1994

Five Protagonists, Browse and Darby, London

2000

La Mirada Fuerte. Pintura degurative de Londres, Mexico City (British Council exhibition)

2000

Encounters, National Gallery, London

Selected Bibliography

Coldstream, William, Laughton, Bruce, The Slade 1871-1971, exhibition catalogue, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1971

Cork, Richard, The School of London and their Friends, The Collection of Elaine and Melvin Merians, exhibition catalogue, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2000

Feaver, William, La Mirada Fuerte, exhibition catalogue, British Council, Mexico, 2000

Forge, Andrew, Painting and Perception, exhibition catalogue, The MacRobert Arts Centre Gallery, University of Stirling, 1971

Forge, Andrew, Euan Uglow, Paintings and Drawings, exhibition catalogue, Salander O'Reilly Galleries, New York, 1993

Gayford, Martin, A Thing Living in itself - A conversation with Euan Uglow, Modern Painters, Spring 2001, Volume 14, Number 1

Golding, Martin, Euan Uglow's Nudes, exhibition catalogue, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1989

Gowing, Lawrence, Eight Figurative Painters, exhibition catalogue, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981

Hyman, James, British Figurative Painting of the 20th century, exhibition catalogue, British Council, 1992

Hyman, James, The Battle for Realism, Yale University Press, 2001

Kendall, Richard, Manchester, London, Glasgow. The Pursuit of the Real, Burlington Magazine, May 1990

Kendall, Richard, Still Life Paintings (Ideas 1952-1991), exhibition catalogue, Browse & Darby, London, 1991 Kendall, Richard, Euan Uglow Drawings, exhibition catalogue, Browse & Darby, London, 1999

Kendall, Richard, The School of London and their Friends, The Elaine and Melvin Merians Collection, Burlington Magazine, January 2001

Kendall, Richard, Euan Uglow, Night Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Browse & Darby, London, 2001

Kitaj, The Human Clay, exhibition catalogue, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976

Lambirth, Andrew, Snatches of Conversation, exhibition catalogue, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1989 Lambirth, Andrew, 'A State of Emergency', Modern Painters, Summer 1992

Lambirth, Andrew, Five Protagonists, exhibition catalogue, Browse & Darby, London, 1994

Lambirth, Andrew, Encounters, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery, London, 2000

Lambirth, Andrew, 'Euan Uglow', London Magazine, April/May 2001

Lampert, Catherine, Painting from Life, exhibition catalogue, Hayward Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1979

Lampert, Catherine, Euan Uglow, The Proper Study, exhibition catalogue, British Council, 1984

Lampert, Catherine, Euan Uglow, exhibition catalogue, Browse & Darby, London, 1997

McLean, John, Euan Uglow, paintings and drawings, exhibition catalogue, Salander O'Reilly Galleries, New York, 1993

Morphet, Richard, The Hard Won Image, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London, 1984

Murphy, Myles, Euan Uglow: paintings and drawings, exhibition catalogue, Browse & Darby, London, 1983

Piper, David, Introduction, Euan Uglow, drawings, exhibition catalogue, Colnaghi, London, 1974

Prendeville, Brendan, A Measure of Reality, exhibition catalogue, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, 2002

Rothenstein, John, Modern English Painters (3 volumes), London, 1974

Seddon Jones, Julie, Euan Uglow, exhibition catalogue, Browse & Darby, London, 1989

Sylvester, David, 'Getting it Right', Modern Painters, Summer 1997

Troostwyck, 'New Work, Euan Uglow's Diagonal', The Studio, vol. 187, May 1974

Willing, Victor, 'Opaque Perception', Art Monthly, December/January 1978