Thames at Kew

Location

Country: Bangladesh
City: Dhaka
Place: High Commission

Colin Hayes was born in 1919 in London and read Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford. Whilst at Oxford, Hayes also attended art classes at the Ruskin School of Drawing. At the outbreak of war in 1939, Hayes volunteered and served in the Royal Engineers. He was invalided out of the Army in 1945. Hayes's first major solo exhibition was at Marlborough Fine Arts in London. During the 1950s he was part of a group of tutors who transformed the Royal College of Art into a leading force in English art education. Among his many students were Bridget Riley, Peter Blake, R.B. Kitaj, David Hockney and Frank Auerbach. He retired in 1984 and remained an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College until his death in 2003.

Places

England, Surrey, River Thames, London, Kew

Subjects

topography, townscape/cityscape, tree, river, man, path, house

Materials & Techniques

board, oil, oil painting

Artist

Colin Hayes (1919 - 2004)

Title

Thames at Kew

Date

Medium

Oil on board

Dimensions

height: 40.80 cm, width: 76.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Agnew, November 1953

Inscription

br: Hayes

Provenance

With Agnew’s Gallery, London; from whom purchased in November 1953

GAC number

2382