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Euan Ernest Richard Uglow (10 March 1932 – 31 August 2000) was a British painter. He is famous for his nude and still life paintings such as ''German Girl'' and ''Skull''. ==Biography== Euan Uglow was born in 1932 in London. As a child, he lived in Tulse Hill in south London, where his father was an accountant. Uglow went to the local grammar school in Tulse Hill, Strand School. Afterwards he studied at Camberwell School of Art from 1948 to 1950, during a time when Camberwell students studied under artists such as Victor Pasmore, Lawrence Gowing, John Minton, Kenneth Martin and William Coldstream. Uglow was influenced by Coldstream whilst at Camberwell, although he believed that another tutor there, the painter Claude Rogers, was more significant in his development.〔Tom Rosenthal, 'Review of Euan Uglow: The complete paintings by Catherine Lampert and Richard Kendall', in ''The Independent'' (London newspaper), 27 May 2007〕 Nonetheless, when Coldstream left Camberwell to teach at the Slade School of Art in 1951, Uglow followed him, and remained a student at the Slade until 1954. Refusing compulsory military service, Uglow was registered as a conscientious objector in 1954, and spent two years undertaking community work, assisting in the restoration of a war-damaged church by Christopher Wren in the City of London, redecorating the house of the artist Patrick George, and helping on a farm in Surrey.〔June Ducas, 'The irresistible Mr Uglow, in ''The Daily Telegraph'' (London newspaper), 5 April 1997〕 Success in art was not immediate, and he did not sell a painting until eight years after leaving art school. During this time he took a variety of part-time teaching jobs, most notably at the Slade from 1961, an institution with which he was to be associated for the rest of his life. In 1962 he was at the centre of a storm at the municipal art gallery in Bradford, Yorkshire, when a local councillor, Horace Hird, had one of Uglow's paintings, ''German Girl,'' removed from an Arts Council exhibition at the gallery.〔'Nude portraits cause uproar in England', in ''The Dispatch,'' (newspaper from Lexington, North Carolina), 22 August 1962, p.2〕 Hird claimed the painting 'offended decency'.〔'Nude Paintings Taken Down', in ''The Herald'' (Glasgow newspaper), 21 August 1962, p.7〕 Despite this, Uglow was generally a shy artist who shunned publicity as well as honours, including an offer to become a member of the Royal Academy in 1961.〔Keith Perry, 'UK's 'unknown' master painter dies of cancer', in ''The Guardian'' (London newspaper), 1 September 2000〕 However, he did become a trustee of the National Gallery in London in 1991, although, in his own words, he was generally ignored by the other trustees.〔June Ducas, 'The irresitable Mr Uglow, in ''The Daily Telegraph'' (London newspaper), 5 April 1997〕 Uglow's first solo show was in 1961 at the Beaux Arts Gallery, but his slow and methodical working method did not lead to a large number of solo shows. In 1969 he exhibited drawings at the Gardener Centre at Sussex University, in 1974 at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London and then periodically at the Browse & Darby Gallery in London. He also took part in numerous group shows, including exhibitions of the London Group and the annual John Moores Prize exhibitions in Liverpool. In 1981 he took part in the exhibition ''Eight Figurative Painters'' at the University of Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, and in 1984 in ''The Hard Won Image'' at the Tate Gallery, London. In 1992 he featured in the exhibition ''British Figurative Painting of the 20th Century'' at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and in 2000 in the exhibition ''Encounters'' at the National Gallery in London. In 2002 a posthumous retrospective was organised by the Arts Council for England, entitled ''Spotlight on Euan Uglow,'' which toured around Britain. In 2003 there was a retrospective ''Euan Uglow: Controlled Passion, Fifty Years of Painting'' at the Abbot Hall Gallery, in Kendal. In 1980 Uglow was invited by the artist Stass Paraskos to become the first artist-in-residence at the new Cyprus College of Art arts centre in village of Lempa on the island of Cyprus.〔Michael Paraskos, et al, ''Stass Paraskos'' (London: Orage Press, 2010)〕 He has work in the collections of the Arts Council of England, the British Council, the National Museum of Wales, the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull, Glasgow Art Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Southampton City Art Gallery, the British Government Art Collection, the Tate Gallery and The Hepworth in Wakefield. Uglow died of liver cancer at his home in Wandsworth, London, in 2000. The Estate of Uglow is represented by Marlborough Fine Art, London. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Euan Uglow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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