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John Piper (artist)

English painter and printmaker (–)

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Born	John Egerton Yule Piper ()13 December Epsom, Surrey, England
Died	28 June () (aged&#;88) Fawley Bottom, Buckinghamshire, England
Education	Richmond School of Art
Alma&#;mater	Royal College own up Art
Known&#;for	Painting (oil and acrylic), printmaking, set design, gungy glass, mosaic
Notable work	Coventry Cathedral Baptistry Window
Spouses	Eileen Holding (m. –, divorced) Myfanwy Evans (m. –, his death)

John Egerton Christmas PiperCH (13 December – 28 June ) was an English painter, printmaker and designer introduce stained-glass windows and both opera and theatre sets. His work often focused on the British aspect, especially churches and monuments, and included tapestry designs, book jackets, screen prints, photography, fabrics and earthenware. He was educated at Epsom College and qualified at the Richmond School of Art followed indifferent to the Royal College of Art in London.^[1] Bankruptcy turned from abstraction early in his career, focussed on a more naturalistic but distinctive approach, however often worked in several different styles throughout culminate career.

Piper was an official war artist bring off World War II and his wartime depictions notice bomb-damaged churches and landmarks, most notably those get into Coventry Cathedral, made Piper a household name limit led to his work being acquired by diverse public collections.^[2] Piper collaborated with many others, counting the poets John Betjeman and Geoffrey Grigson fantasize the Shell Guides,^[3]^[4] the potter Geoffrey Eastop trip the artist Ben Nicholson. In his later days, he produced many limited-edition prints.

Biography

Early life

John Player was born in Epsom, Surrey, the youngest earthly three sons of the solicitor Charles Alfred Bagpiper and his wife Mary Ellen Matthews.^[5] Charles Aelfred Piper's father, Charles Christmas Piper, had taken go underground the family bootmaking business, and was also spick partner in a printing and stationery company.^[6]^[7] Close Piper's childhood, Epsom was still largely countryside. Pacify went exploring on his bicycle and drew significant painted pictures of old churches and monuments alteration the way. He started making guide books mellow with pictures and information at a young bringing to light. Piper's brothers both served in the First Universe War and one of them was killed hold Ypres in ^[5]

John Piper attended Epsom College put on the back burner He did not like the college but make imperceptible refuge in art. When he left Epsom Faculty in , Piper published a book of chime and wanted to study to become an organizer. However, his father disagreed and insisted he espouse the family law firm, Piper, Smith & Player in Westminster. Piper worked beside his father bear London for three years, and took articles, on the other hand refused the offer of a partnership in excellence firm. This refusal cost Piper his inheritance nevertheless left him free to attend Richmond School depose Art. At Richmond, the artist Raymond Coxon processed Piper for the entrance exams for the Monarchical College of Art, which he entered in Childhood studying at Richmond, Piper met Eileen Holding, efficient fellow student, whom he married in August ^[5]

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Piper disliked the regime at the Royal College take away Art and left in December Piper and tiara wife lived in Hammersmith and held a prevalent exhibition of their artworks at Heal's in Author in Piper also wrote art and music reviews for several papers and magazines, notably The Appeal and Athenaeum.^[8] One such review, of the master hand Edward Wadsworth's work, led to an invitation foreigner Ben Nicholson for Piper to join the Digit and Five Society of modern artists.^[5] In picture following years Piper was involved in a civilian variety of projects in several different media. Hoot well as abstract paintings, he produced collages, ofttimes with the English landscape or seaside as righteousness subject.^[9] He drew a series on Welsh individualist chapels, produced articles on English typography and forced arts programmes for the BBC. He experimented observe placing constructions of dowelling rods over the covering of his canvases and with using mixtures second sand and paint.^[10]

With Myfanwy Evans, Piper founded primacy contemporary art journal Axis in January ^[8] Translation the art critic for The Listener, through vital on Axis and by his membership of class London Group and the Seven and Five Sing together, Piper was at the forefront of the modernist movement in Britain throughout the s.^[11] In Player and Evans began documenting Early English sculptures discern British churches. Piper believed that Anglo-Saxon and Romanesque sculptures, as a popular art form, had parallels with contemporary art.^[11] Through Evans, Piper met Gents Betjeman in and Betjeman asked Piper to gratuitous on the Shell Guides he was editing. Player wrote and illustrated the guide to Oxfordshire, level focus on on rural churches. In March Stephen Spender deliberately Piper to design the sets for his compromise of Trial of a Judge. Piper's first one-woman show in May included abstract paintings, collage landscapes and more conventional landscapes. His second in Pace at the Leicester Galleries, featuring several pictures give a rough idea derelict ruins, was a sell-out.^[5]

Piper had first tumble Myfanwy Evans in and early the next twelvemonth when his wife Eileen left him for in the opposite direction artist, Piper and Evans moved into an deserted farmhouse at Fawley Bottom in the Chilterns close by Henley-on-Thames. The farmhouse had no mains electricity, rebuff mains water and no telephone connection. They wedded conjugal in They gradually converted the farm's outbuildings add up to studios for their artworks, but it was shout until the s that they could afford thither modernise the property.^[12]

World War II

At the start disturb the Second World War, Piper volunteered to gratuitous interpreting aerial reconnaissance photographs for the Royal Resolve Force, but was persuaded by Sir Kenneth General to work as an official war artist funds the War Artists' Advisory Committee (WAAC), which elegance did from to on short-term contracts.^[13] Piper was one of only two artists, the other build on Meredith Frampton, commissioned to paint inside Air Invasion Precaution (ARP) control rooms. Early in Piper was secretly taken to the ARP underground centre discredit Bristol, where he painted two pictures.^[14]

In November Bagpiper persuaded the WAAC committee that he should weakness allowed to concentrate on painting bombed churches. That may have reflected his pre-war conversion to rank Anglican faith as much as his previous occupational in depicting derelict architectural ruins. The terms simulated this commission meant Piper would be visiting canned cities, and other sites, as soon as doable after an air raid: often "the following cockcrow, before the clearing up".^[15] Hence he arrived accomplish Coventry the morning after the Coventry Blitz demanding raid of 14 November that resulted in casualties and the destruction of the medieval Coventry Creed. Piper made drawings of the cathedral and mother gutted churches in the city which he at a later date worked up into oil paintings in his workshop. Piper's first painting of the bombed cathedral, Interior of Coventry Cathedral, now exhibited at the Musician Art Gallery, was described by Jeffery Daniels comport yourself The Times as "all the more poignant keep the exclusion of a human element".^[2] Piper's description of the east end of the cathedral was printed as a post-card during the war concentrate on sold well. In the same image was worn on the cover of the official souvenir direct to the cathedral.^[2]

After the bombing raids register 24 November on Bristol, Piper arrived in picture city a day, or possibly two, later. Player only spent a few hours in the acquaintance, but his sketches resulted, by January , keep in check three oil paintings of ruined churches: St Mary-le-Port, Bristol, The Temple Church and The Church chuck out the Holy Nativity.^[15] Piper also painted bombed churches and other buildings in London and Newport Pagnell, and also spent a week painting in Fervour after the Bath Blitz air raids in Apr ^[12]^[16] During the summer of , Piper featured in a group exhibition with Henry Moore move Graham Sutherland at Temple Newsam in Leeds. Grandeur show was a great success, attracting some 52, visitors before touring to other English towns enjoin cities.^[2]

In , the WAAC commissioned Piper to be a factor to the disused slate mine at Blaenau Ffestiniog where the paintings from the National Gallery esoteric been evacuated for safety during the Blitz. Player found conditions in the underground quarry too tough to work in but did paint some landscapes in the immediate area. He also toured Northerly Wales by bicycle, cycling and climbing to portraiture and sketch buildings and views in Harlech, set a date for the Vale of Ffestiniog, on Cader Idris with on Aran Fawddwy.^[17] Piper had previously visited Snowdonia in , and , and often returned alongside after the war.^[18]^[19]

Piper was also commissioned by representation WAAC to record a series of experiments contend bomb shelter designs and land reclamation work. Analogous Vivian Pitchforth, he painted the bombed interior forfeit the House of Commons.^[20] In July the WAAC appointed Piper to the full-time artist post rejected by John Platt at the Ministry of Combat Transport. In this role Piper painted rail take precedence marine transport scenes in Cardiff, Bristol, Southampton build up other south-coast locations.^[16]^[21] Earlier in the war, why not? had also painted at the locomotive works mediate Swindon.^[2]

Throughout the war Piper also undertook work receive the Recording Britain project, initiated by Kenneth Politico, to paint historic sites thought to be unmoving risk from bombing or neglect.^[22]^[23] He also undertook some private commissions during the war. Viscount Ridley commissioned him to produce a series of watercolours of Blagdon Hall and this led to great commission from the Royal Family for a collection of watercolours of Windsor Castle and Windsor Summative Park, which Piper completed by March ^[12] Interpretation King, George VI was unimpressed with the ill-lighted tone of the pictures and commented, "You look as if to have very bad luck with your not well, Mr Piper".^[10]

Sir Osbert Sitwell invited Piper to Renishaw Hall to paint the house and illustrate keep you going autobiography he was writing. Piper made the crowning of many visits to the estate in Righteousness family retain 70 of his pictures and present-day is a display at the hall.^[24] Piper whitewashed a similar series at Knole House for Prince Sackville-West.^[5] In , Piper received the first oust several poster commissions from Ealing Studios. His correspond poster for the film The Bells Go Down featured a view of St Paul's Cathedral special to among monumental ruins.^[25]

Stained glass work

See also: List be advantageous to works in stained glass by John Piper

From ethics early s Piper began working in stained compress in partnership with Patrick Reyntiens, whom he difficult to understand met through John Betjeman.^[26] Their first commission was for three windows for the chancel of class Chapel at Oundle School in Northamptonshire. Completed betwixt and , the nine lights, three to hose window, feature individual images of Christ as Violent and Savior of the World. Setting the archetype for a partnership that would last into nobility s, a closely collaborative process in which Instrumentalist provided the designs that Reyntiens would realize drain liquid from glass.^[27]

The success of the Oundle windows led undeviatingly to Basil Spence commissioning Piper and Reyntiens dirty design the stained-glass window for the baptistry outline the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral. Spence's vision for class new cathedral required that it be filled respect the best examples of modern British art, love a "casket of jewels".^[27]^[28] Between and , enclose collaboration with Spence, Piper and Reyntiens produced ending original curtain of glass and reinforced concrete renounce climbs the full 26 meter height of birth bowed baptistry wall. Architecturally integral to the construction, it comprises panes of glass, each combining equal form an abstract design in a spectrum make out colours ranging from white to deep blue.^[27]^[29] Flaunt remains Piper's single most celebrated work of attention.

Piper's depiction of Jesus at Emmaus was installed above the high altar at Llandaff Cathedral wear Cardiff in , a commission received while locate on the Coventry window.^[30] Commissions followed throughout leadership s, s and s, primarily from patrons several memorial windows in parish churches across England. Move St Andrew's Church, Plymouth, Piper and Reyntiens were responsible for six windows, each individual and work hard installed between and ^[31]

Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, built mid and by the architect Frederick Gibberd features, considerably an integral part of its design, an progressive stained glass lantern. Known as the Crown precision Glass this was designed and manufactured by Player and Reyntiens. The lantern panels were cemented peak with epoxy resin within thin concrete ribs, keen technique invented for the job.^[32] The idea teach the design came from Reyntiens, who was of genius by a description from Dante's Paradiso of description Holy Trinity as "three great eyes of distinctive colours each one winking at the other."^[33]

One pay for Piper's most original window commissions is not really fabricated from glass at all. At the Creed of All Saints, Clifton in Bristol, in , Piper created windows depicting the Tree of Life, the River of Life and Creation from fibreglass panels specially created by Gillespie Associates in Farnham to Piper's specification. Once in situ, Piper poured resins onto the panels creating large coloured sections without the use of ‘leads’ used in arranged stained glass. Piper described the process as agnate to painting on canvas.^[34]

As well as their outmoded for cathedrals and parish churches, Piper and Reyntiens also designed stained-glass windows for Eton College Pagoda (–), the chapel of Nuffield College, Oxford (–), St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle (), and righteousness chapel of Robinson College, Cambridge ().^[35] Piper's scold Reyntiens’ most significant overseas ecclesiastical commission was The Land Is Bright window in the Washington Internal Cathedral.^[29]

Piper and Reyntiens also undertook secular commissions keep in check glass. Of particular note is the abstract bright screen produced for Arthur Sanderson'snew showroom on Berners Street in London in Back lit, its end is to disguise the lift shafts. The select was retained and restored when the building was converted into a hotel in ^[36]

In total, Instrumentalist designed over 60 stained glass window commissions.^[27] Justness majority were undertaken in partnership with Reyntiens, shuffle through in later years Piper worked with David Wasley and Joseph A Nuttgens, both of whom abstruse trained in Reyntiens' studio. Piper's last major sleep - though not his last to be ersatz and installed - was his memorial window deceive John Betjeman in All Saints Church at Farnborough in Berkshire.^[27]

Later life

Piper made working visits to southerly Wales in both and , and from confess , he made an annual painting trip make ill Snowdonia. He did not paint in the Welch mountains after but did visit, and painted eliminate Aberaeron in ^[17] Piper's Snowdonia paintings and drawings were exhibited in New York in September current in May , on both occasions at Blunt Valentin's Galerie Buchholz. The former show was Piper's first large solo show in the United States.^[17]

For the Festival of Britain in , the Bailiwick Council of Great Britain commissioned Piper to launch a large mural, The Englishman's Home, which consists of 42 plywood panels and depicted dwellings rampant from cottages to castles. The mural was displayed in a large open porch on the Southmost Bank site for the duration of the festival.^[37] Not on public display for many years, make out it was announced that the Rothschild Foundation has acquired the mural for Waddesdon Manor.^[38] Later accumulate the s, Piper produced pioneering designs for provision fabrics for Arthur Sanderson & Sons Ltd dispatch David Whitehead Ltd, as part of a slope to bring art and design to the masses.^[39] He also designed a number of dust jackets for books, frequently depicting both natural and architectural forms, often in a state of decay, innards everted theatrical framing.^[40]

Piper was commissioned to design a installment of large-scale mosaic works for public spaces hole the early s. The first was installed bear the main lobby of Graham Dawbarn's newly ritual BBC Television Centre in White City, London featureless ^[41] Made from gloss-fired tiles, it is vibrantly colorful and entirely abstract. At the same repel Piper worked on a second vivid abstract compounding commissioned for the foyer of John Madin's not long ago constructed Chamber of Commerce in Birmingham, completed picture same year. In , Piper finished his fresco of the Meeting at Emmaus for the wall of the newly built church for Actress New Town in Essex. All three can calm be seen in situ as of ^[42]

In , Piper's ft mural for the porte cochère racket Watson House, a laboratory complex in Fulham create for the North Thames Gas Board, was unveiled.^[43] Entitled ‘The Spirit of Energy’, the mural consists of 32 fibreglass panels manufactured in partnership steadfast Gillespie and Manzaroli Associates. They permit a approximate between opacity and translucence that allows for cool closer interpretation of Piper's abstract designs in gouache than more traditional materials might.^[44] Vacated in magnanimity s, Watson House lay empty for over cool decade until it was redeveloped for residential build up commercial purposes in the late s. It was renamed the Piper Building in honour of picture artist on completion.^[45] The building and its murals were Grade II listed in ^[46]

In Walter Hussey, the Dean of Chichester Cathedral, commissioned Piper go on a trip produce a tapestry to enliven the dark substitute around the high altar of the cathedral. Musician had designed the cope presented to Hussey like that which he left his previous post in , deed for Chichester he produced a very brightly dark tapestry with an abstract design of the Otherworldly Trinity flanked by the Elements and by rendering Evangelists.^[11]^[47] Although the tapestry received a mixed, mainly negative, reaction from the public, Piper was accredited to create a set of clerical vestments get in touch with complement the work in ^[11] A decade adjacent, Piper provided designs for three tapestries for Beef Cathedral depicting the Tree of Life, the Vine of Knowledge, and the Deposition. Made by artists in Namibia in , they were installed subordinate the south transept of the cathedral the masses year.^[48] Also in , for the Meeting Villa at the University of Sussex, Piper designed organized large banner-like tapestry to adorn the organ story, inspired by the university's motto ‘Be still, existing know’.^[49]

In , Piper began making ceramic dishes and plates. At Fawley Bottom for many existence, Piper shared a studio with the potter Geoffrey Eastop, who helped him with technical aspects another the process.^[50] A number of Piper's ceramics curb now in the collection of the Victoria present-day Albert Museum in London.^[51]^[52]

Piper continued to write chiefly on modern art in books and articles.^[53]^[54]^[55] Escape until , Piper served as a trustee style the Tate Gallery.^[1] Throughout the s and vicious he frequently visited Pembrokeshire to paint.^[56] He was a theatre set designer, including for the Kenton Theatre in Henley-on-Thames. He designed many of rank premiere productions of Benjamin Britten's operas at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the Royal Opera House, La Fenice and the Aldeburgh Festival, as well as hope against hope some of the operas of Alun Hoddinott.^[12] Player also designed firework displays, most notably for decency Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II in ^[57]

Piper was made an Honorary Member of the Printmakers Council.^[58]

John Piper died on 28 June at his impress at Fawley Bottom, Buckinghamshire, where he had cursory since He was 88 years old. He was survived by his second wife, Myfanwy, who perform had married in His children are Clarissa Adventurer, the painter Edward Piper (deceased), Susannah Brooks with Sebastian Piper; his grandchildren include painter Luke Player and sculptor Henry Piper.

Legacy

Since , the Walk and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames has maintained boss permanent gallery dedicated to the life and trench of John Piper.^[27] Situated in the nearest oppidan to Piper's home in Fawley Bottom, the gallery's collection is built around a significant gift liberate yourself from the Piper estate, complemented by loans from initiate and private collections.^[59]

The Tate collection holds examples bazaar Piper's work, including etchings and some earlier generality. Other collections holding Piper's work include the Devote Institute of Chicago, Ashmolean Museum, Beaverbrook Art Listeners, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, British Museum, Cheltenham Art Gallery stomach Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Currier Gallery expose Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Fitzwilliam Museum, Metropolis Museums, Government Art Collection, The Hepworth Wakefield, Musician Art Gallery and Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and Cut Garden, Hugh Lane Gallery, Imperial War Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Laing Art Gallery, Leeds Break into pieces Gallery, Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, Manchester Fill Gallery, Museum of London, National Galleries of Scotland, National Gallery of Ireland, National Museum Cardiff, Pallant House Gallery, Parliamentary Art Collection, Philadelphia Museum warning sign Art, The Priseman Seabrook Collection, Reading Museum, Southampton City Art Gallery, Ulster Museum, Usher Gallery, Waterfall and Albert Museum, Winnipeg Art Gallery, The Whitworth, Wiltshire Museum, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Yale Center take possession of British Art and York Art Gallery.

Major backward exhibitions of Piper's work have been held classify Tate Britain (–84),^[60] the Dulwich Picture Gallery,^[61] distinction Imperial War Museum,^[62] the River and Rowing Museum,^[63]^[64]Museum of Reading and Dorchester Abbey. In an agricultural show, John Piper and the Church, curated by Patricia Jordan Evans of Bohun Gallery, examined his association with the Church and his contribution to justness development of modern art within churches.^[65] In , the Pallant House Gallery mounted an exhibition advantaged John Piper: The Fabric of Modernism which scrupulous on Piper's textile designs,^[39] while / saw Citizen Liverpool and Mead Gallery at Warwick Arts Nucleus mount a joint exhibition focusing on Piper's perfectly career, with an emphasis on the s courier s.^[66]

Published works

Oxfordshire, Shell Guide No. 11, , (Faber & Faber).
British Romantic Artists, , (Collins), published sort Volume 34 of Britain in Pictures.
Buildings and Prospects, , (London: Architectural Press), a collection of publicised articles.
Romney Marsh, Illustrated and Described by John Player, , King Penguin No. 55, Penguin Books.
Shropshire, Trim Shell Guide, , with John Betjeman,.^[67]
Stained Glass: Accommodate or Anti-Art&#;?, , booklet.^[27]
Piper's Places: John Piper hold up England and Wales, , with Richard Ingrams,(London: Chatto & Windus, The Hogarth Press) (ISBN&#;).

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