Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Downing Street

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. Retrospectives were held at the Museum of Modern Art (Oxford, 1973) and the Tate (1983–84).

Places

England, Sheffield, Yorkshire, South Yorkshire

Subjects

topography, townscape/cityscape, street, house, church, spire, tower

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

John Piper (1903 - 1992)

Title

Sheffield Suburb

Date

c.1960

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 106.50 cm, width: 152.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, December 1967

Inscription

BR: John Piper

GAC number

7956