Study Related to Stained Glass, No 5

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

John Piper was born in Epsom, Surrey and worked in his father’s solicitors’ firm until 1926. He later studied art in Richmond and London. Meeting Braque in Paris inspired him to make abstract art and to exhibit with the Seven and Five Society (1934–35). In 1935 Piper collaborated with Myfanwy Evans (later, his wife) on the pioneering review, ‘Axis’. He abandoned abstract art for Neo-Romanticism and during the Second World War, as an Official War Artist, he recorded bomb-devastated buildings of England’s disappearing architectural heritage. A versatile artist, Piper made book illustrations, theatre designs, ceramics, stained-glass and textiles. He collaborated with Patrick Reyntiens on stained glass projects which included the baptistry window for what was then the new Coventry Cathedral, and the stained glass lantern for Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. Retrospectives of Piper's work were held at the Museum of Modern Art (Oxford, 1973) and the Tate (1983–84).

Places

Subjects

abstract, stained-glass window

Materials & Techniques

mixed media (art material), paper (as artists material), mixed media (art object)

Artist

John Piper (1903 - 1992)

Title

Study Related to Stained Glass, No 5

Date

c.1959

Medium

Mixed media on paper

Dimensions

height: 57.50 cm, width: 78.60 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Leicester Galleries, January 1960

Inscription

br: John Piper

Provenance

Consigned by the artist to Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in December 1959

GAC number

5040