Biography
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1912
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Born at Selsey, Sussex
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1921
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Sent away to board at Christ's Hospital
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1939
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Left the Lintas advertising agency to paint full time; his brother, a fighter pilot, killed
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1941
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Conscripted into the Non-Combatant Corps
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1946
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Lived with John Minton and Graham Sutherland; started working at Camberwell School of Art
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1948
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Started teaching at the Central School of Art
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1951
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Included in the Arts Council's 'Sixty Paintings for ‘51', as part of the Festival of Britain
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1953
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Included in Patrick Heron’s 'Space in Colour'
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1954
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Started teaching at the Slade
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1958
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Diagnosed with depression
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1959
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Taught a term at Iowa University
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1962
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Retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery
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1977
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Committed suicide
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Selected solo exhibitions
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1944
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Reid and Lefevre Gallery, London, ‘Keith Vaughan: Gouaches and Drawings’
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1946 - 1948
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Reid and Lefevre Gallery, London, 'Keith Vaughan: Paintings and Gouaches'
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1948
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George Dix Gallery, New York, 'Keith Vaughan: Paintings and Gouaches'
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1950
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Instituto de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, ‘Keith Vaughan: Paintings’
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Redfern Gallery, London, 'Keith Vaughan: Gouaches'
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1952
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Redfern Gallery, London, ‘Keith Vaughan: Retrospective'
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Hanover Gallery, ‘Keith Vaughan: Drawings for Rimbaud (Une Saison en Enfer)’
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1959
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Leicester Galleries, London, ‘Keith Vaughan: Gouaches'
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1962
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Whitechapel Gallery, London, ‘Keith Vaughan: Retrospective’
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1965
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Marlborough Fine Art, London, ‘Keith Vaughan: Recent Gouaches’
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1970
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Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford, ‘Keith Vaughan: Paintings and Gouaches’
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1976
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Waddington Galleries, London, ‘Keith Vaughan: New Paintings and Gouaches’
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1983
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Redfern Gallery, London, ‘Keith Vaughan: 1912-1977’
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1987
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Austin Desmond Fine Art, Sunninghill, ‘Keith Vaughan: Paintings, Gouaches, Watercolours and Drawings’
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1990
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Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath, ‘Keith Vaughan: Paintings, Gouaches and Drawings’
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1991
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St Jude's, London, 'Drawings of the Young Male'
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1994
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Redfern Gallery, London, ‘Keith Vaughan: Works on Paper'
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2002
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Olympia Spring Fine Art & Antiques Fair, London, 'Keith Vaughan: Drawings'
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2007
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Osborne Samuel, London, ‘Keith Vaughan: Paintings and Drawings’
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2010
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Gallery 27, London, ‘Keith Vaughan: Four Decades of Drawing’
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2012
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Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, ‘Keith Vaughan: Romanticism to Abstraction’
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Agnew's, London 'Keith Vaughan 1912-1977'
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Selected group exhibitions
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1946
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Arts Council, 'Four Young British Painters: Keith Vaughan, Michael Ayrton, John Minton, William Scott'
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1952
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Hanover Gallery, London, ‘Three Painters: Keith Vaughan, Rose Pulham, E.Q.Nicholson’
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1959
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British Council Touring the State Galleries of Australia, ‘Seven British Painters: Keith Vaughan, Alan Davie, Merlyn Evans, William Gear, Terry Frost, Roger Hilton, Bryan Wynter’
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1964
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British Council and National Gallery of Canada, ‘Contemporary British Painting’
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1987
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Barbican Art Gallery, London, ‘A Paradise Lost: The Neo-Romantic Imagination in Britain 1935-1950’
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1998
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RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin and London, ‘The Fifties: Art from the British Council Collection'
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2010
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Anthony Hepworth Fine Arts, London, ‘Keith Vaughan and Prunella Clough: A Selection of Works from the Hargreaves and Ball Charitable Trust'
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Selected collections
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Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo , New York
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Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
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Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford
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Auckland Art Gallery
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Birmingham Museum of Art
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British Council Art Collection
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Imperial War Museum
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Leeds Museum and Galleries
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National Portrait Gallery, London
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National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
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Pallant House Gallery, London
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Tate Britain, London
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Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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Selected Publications
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Vaughan, K., 'Journals 1939-1977', London: Murray, 1989
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Yorke, M., 'Keith Vaughan: His Life and Work', London: Constable and Company, 1990
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Hastings, G., 'Drawing to a close: the final journals of Keith Vaughan', Pagham Press, 2012
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Hepworth, A., Massey, I., 'Keith Vaughan: The Mature Oils 1946- 1977', Bristol: Sansom and Company, 2012
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Vann, P., 'Keith Vaughan', Farnham : Lund Humphries in association with Osborne Samuel, 2012
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Cruise, C., Heuser, H., Meyrick, R., Pierse, S., 'Keith Vaughan: Figure and Ground', Bristol: Sansom and Company, 2013
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Hastings, G., 'Visions & Recollections: Prunella Clough & Keith Vaughan', Pagham Press, 2014
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