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William Coldstream
Sir William Menzies Coldstream, CBE (28 February 1908 – 18 February 1987) was an English realist painter and a long-standing art teacher.
==Biography==
Born in Northumberland, northern England, the son of a country doctor, he grew up in London and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London where he met and married Nancy Sharp. He co-founded the Euston Road School with Graham Bell, Victor Pasmore and Claude Rogers in 1937 having previously been involved in the short-lived Objective Abstraction movement.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Objective Abstraction, Tate website )〕 He enlisted in the Royal Artillery at the start of the war but he was appointed a War Artist in 1943, working in Egypt and Italy.〔Gowing and Sylvester 1990, p. 111.〕 His earlier years were characterized by a dedicated engagement with socialist ideals, and by the pursuit of a non-elitist form of art. At this period he was close friends with the composer Britten, and the writers Auden and Isherwood.
In November 1945, he became a visiting teacher at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, and later its Professor. In 1949 he returned to lead the Slade School as Principal, and Professor of Fine Art. Under his direction the Slade achieved an international reputation for excellence.〔Gowing and Sylvester 1990, p. 114.〕 In 1952 he became a CBE In the Queen's Birthday Honours 1956 Coldstream was appointed as a Knight Bachelor. In 1960 he married his model, Monica Hoyer, his first marriage having broken down many years earlier. Between 1958 and 1971 he was Chairman of the National Advisory Council on Art Education, which published its first report in 1960—called the "Coldstream Report"—outlining the requirements for a new Diploma in Art and Design (Dip.A.D.). Other administrative posts he held were as Vice Chairman of the Arts Council, and as a director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and as a trustee of the National Gallery. He was also Chairman of the British Film Institute from 1964 to 1971 (he had worked with John Grierson in the GPO Film Unit for a few years in the 1930s).
He retired from the Slade School in 1975, and continued to paint until 1984, when his health was in marked decline. He died in the Royal Homeopathic Hospital in London on 18 February 1987.
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