Artist's arttributes:
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Painting, Design |
Most exhibitions in:
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| United Kingdom | 64 |
| USA | 4 |
| Portugal | 4 |
| Greece | 1 |
| Germany | 1 |
Biography: 
30.1.1920 Born in Headingley, Leeds, Yorkshire, Engl. (UK)
1925 - 1929 Lived near Newlyn, and in Lelant, Zennor and St Ives, Cornwall, before moving to Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, September 1929
1937 - 1939 Part-time student at Slade School of Fine Art, London
1940 - 1944 Agricultural labourer, Cambridge and Welwyn Garden City
1944 - 1945 Assistant at Bernard Leach’s pottery, St Ives
1945 - 1947 Art Critic for The New English Weekly
Annual visits to St Ives, until 1954
1945 - 1958 Critic for New English Weekly, New Statesman and Nation and Arts (New York)
1950 - 1954 Occasional reviews in Art News & Review
1953 - 1956 Taught at Central School of Arts and Crafts, London
1980 - 1987 Trustee of the Tate Gallery, London
1989 - 1990 Artist-in-Residence, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1990 - 1993 Two tapestries made from Sydney gouaches by Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne
1996 - 1998 ‘Big Painting Sculpture’, Stag Place, Victoria, commissioned by Land Securities in collaboration with Feary & Heron Architects
Awards 1959 Awarded Grand Prize (International Jury) in John Moores Liverpool Exhibition II, Walker Art Gallery
1965 Awarded Silver medal in the VIII Sao Paulo Bienal
1977 Awarded C.B.E.
Public Collections (British)
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Basildon Arts Trust
Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford
C.E.M.A., Belfast
National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland, Belfast
Birmingham City Art Gallery
Bristol City Art Gallery
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Eliot College, University of Kent, Canterbury
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Bishop Otter College, Chichester
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Exeter Art Gallery
Cornwall House, Exeter University
Harrogate Fine Art Collection
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
Leeds City Art Gallery
Leicestershire Education Committee, Leicester
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
Barclays Bank Collection, London
British Broadcasting Corporation, London
British Council, London
British Museum, London
BP Chemicals, London
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, London
Chancery Securities plc, London
Contemporary Art Society, London
Deutsche Bank, London
Government Art Collection, London
National Portrait Gallery, London
Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., London
RIBA, London
Shell-Mex Limited, London
Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, London
Tate Gallery, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Granada Television, Manchester
Manchester City Art Gallery (Rutherston Collection)
Royal Bank of Scotland, Manchester
Hatton Art Gallery, Newcastle University
Norwich Castle Museum
Oldham Art Gallery
St John’s College, Oxford
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Merton College, Oxford
Methodist Church Collection, Oxford
New College, Oxford
Nuffield College, Oxford
Pembroke College, Oxford
Plymouth City Art Gallery
Southampton Art Gallery
University of Stirling
Cornwall Education Committee, Truro
Wakefield City Art Gallery
Bretton Hall, University of Leeds, Wakefield
National Education Archive, Bretton Hall, Wakefield
Arts Council of Wales
University of Warwick
Public Collections (International)
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sydney University
The University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Alberta
London Art Gallery, Ontario
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montreal
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Vancouver Art Gallery
University of Galway, Ireland
Marubeni (UK) plc, Japan
Ohnishi Museum, Kogawa Prefecture
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam
Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
Museum of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
First National Bank of Chicago, Illinois
Summit Capital Group LLC, Houston, Texas
Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
The University of Oklahoma
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
20.3.1999 Died in Zennor, Cornwall, England (UK)
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 74  from 12.10.
until 11.10.
until 22.9.
Solo shows 5
2008
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| Patrick Heron - - Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (closed, 2009) |
2005
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| Patrick Heron - Gouaches from 1961 to 1996 - Waddington Custot Galleries, London (England) |
1994
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| Patrick Heron: Big Paintings 1994 - Camden Arts Centre, London (England) |
1985
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| Painting, Drawings & Gouaches - Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (England) |
1972
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| Patrick Heron - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) |
Group shows 66
2013
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| Stock Exhibition - Waddington Custot Galleries, London (England) |
2012
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| Aspects Of Modern British Art 2012 - Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London (England) |
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| Modern British & St Ives - Belgrave Gallery St Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England) |
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| 20th Century British Art, Spring 2012 - Paisnel Gallery, London (England) |
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| Abstraction Paintings and Works on Paper - Redfern Gallery, London (England) |
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| Modern & Contemporary Art 2012 - Osborne Samuel, London (England) |
2011
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| 20th Century British Art - Paisnel Gallery, London (England) |
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| St. Ives Modernism - Belgrave Gallery St Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England) |
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| Aspects of British Sculpture and Painting - Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwell (England) |
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| Summer Exhibition 2011 - Agnew's Gallery, London (England) |
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| New Images, New Techniques: Abstraction in British Screenprints circa 1970 - University of Virginia Art Museums - The Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA |
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| St. Ives Exhibition 2011 - Belgrave Gallery St Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England) |
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| Stock Exhibition - Waddington Custot Galleries, London (England) |
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| 20/21 at Ceri Hand Gallery - Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool (England) |
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| Spring Collection: Modern & Contemporary Art - Osborne Samuel, London (England) |
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| Stock Exhibition - Waddington Custot Galleries, London (England) |
2010
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| MMXMAS - Belgrave Gallery St Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England) |
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| Old Master and Modern British Works - Agnew's Gallery, London (England) |
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| Collection: Modern & Contemporary Art - Osborne Samuel, London (England) |
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| Group Show - Waddington Custot Galleries, London (England) |
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| Display - Artists of the St Ives school - Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria (England) |
2009
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| Group Show - Waddington Custot Galleries, London (England) |
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| Hugh Stoneman - Falmouth Art Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall (England) |
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| Stanley William Hayter To Richard Hamilton: Post-war British Printmaking 1945-1979 - Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London (England) |
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| Post War British Art And Ceramics - Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London (England) |
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| Group Show - Waddington Custot Galleries, London (England) |
2008
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| Modern and Contemporary Prints - Osborne Samuel, London (England) |
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| Exacting Standards - Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwell (England) |
2007
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| Aspects of Modern British Art and recent ceramics by Jason Wason - Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London (England) |
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| Spotlight on St Ives: From the Arts Council Collection - University Gallery and Baring Wing - Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne |
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| a north light - cynosure - Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney (Scotland) |
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| A Summer Exhibition Of Modern British & Contemporary Art - Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London (England) |
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| Spotlight on St Ives - Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham Spa, Gloucestershire (England) |
2006
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| Aspects Summer Exhibition 2006 - Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London (England) |
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| The Modern British Artist As Printmaker 1919-2003 - Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London (England) |
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| Patrick Heron, Jonathan Lasker, Katie Pratt - John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (England) |
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| Modernism in St Ives - Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England) |
2005
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| 20th CENTURY BRITISH ART - Osborne Samuel, London (England) |
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| Elements of Abstraction: Space, Line and Interval in Modern British Art - Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton (England) |
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| St Ives to Newlyn 'Hard Edge to Contre-Jour' - Caroline Wiseman, London (England) |
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| the Print Show - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England) |
2004
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| Out of Place: Works from the Pier Arts Centre Collection, Orkney - Dean Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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| DACS 20th Anniversary Exhibition - Mall Galleries, London (England) |
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| The Pier Arts Centre Collection - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England) |
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| English Prints from the Collection - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| The Challenge of Post War Painting - James Hyman Fine Art, London (England) |
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| Twentieth Century British Art - In association with Scolar Fine Art - Osborne Samuel, London (England) |
2003
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| Ex-press - Royal College of Art Galleries, London (England) |
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| 20th Century British Art 2003 - Scolar Fine Art, London (England) |
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| Pier Arts Centre Collection - Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England) |
2002
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| Aspects Of Modern British And Irish Art 2002 - Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London (England) |
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| Artistas Britânicos - Trabalhos sobre Papel - Casa da Cerca - Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Almada |
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| British and American Art - Crane Kalman Gallery, London (England) |
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| Twentieth Century British Printmaking. From William Nicholson To Howard Hodgkin - Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London (England) |
2001
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| Gallery Editions - Kappatos Gallery, Athens |
2000
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| Seven Print Projects from The Paragon Press - Gimpel Fils, London (England) |
1999
1997
1996
1995
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| From Here - Gallery Karsten Schubert, London (England) |
1968
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| Britische Kunst Heute - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
1963
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| Previews - Arnolfini, Bristol (England) |
1960
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| New Europeans - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1956
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| Ten Years of English Landscape Painting: 1945-1955 - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
1950
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| 1950 Aspects of British Art - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
Dealer Directory 16 |
Russia
| | Gertsev Gallery - Moscow, Moscow
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United Kingdom
| | Anthony Hepworth Fine Art Dealers Ltd., Bath, Somerset (England)
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| | Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London (England)
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| | Beaux Arts, London (England)
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| | Jonathan Clark & Co, London (England)
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| | Richard Green, London (England)
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| | Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London (England)
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| | James Hyman Fine Art, London (England)
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| | Gillian Jason Modern & Contemporary Art, London (England)
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| | Martin MacLeish Ltd, London (England)
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| | Paisnel Gallery, London (England)
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| | Waddington Custot Galleries, London (England)
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| | Offer Waterman & Co, London (England)
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| | William Weston Gallery, London (England)
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| | Caroline Wiseman, London (England)
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USA
| | Gertsev Gallery - Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
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Australia
| | The Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, SA
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| | Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
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| | Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
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Canada
| | Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
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Portugal
| | Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
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South Africa
| | Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria
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United Kingdom
| | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham (England)
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| | National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff (Wales)
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| | Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds (England)
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| | NPG - National Portrait Gallery, London (England)
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| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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| | Tate Modern, London (England)
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| | Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
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| | Portsmouth City Museum, Portsmouth (England)
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| | Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton (England)
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| | Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton (England)
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USA
| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, OK
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