Cecil Collins Contents Life and works Exhibitions Bibliography References External links Navigation menu"Ginger Art""Ginger Gilmour Sculptor details""Artist's £1m works left to the nation""Cecil Collins — A Centenary Exhibition"61 paintings by or after Cecil CollinsCecil CollinsEye of the Heart. The paintings of Cecil Collins.XX4865905cb14971829w(data)0000 0000 6629 1569n80109611368fbf9b-2b7f-4c77-940e-efe321cffa553521863200000557917766w6xw6ghz1632565355000089748860769088607690

1908 births1989 deaths20th-century English paintersEnglish male paintersAlumni of the Royal College of ArtPeople from PlymouthEnglish printmakers20th-century British printmakersRoyal Academicians


MBEEnglishSurrealistPlymouthDevonportRoyal College of ArtWilliam RothensteinCentral School of ArtGinger GilmourMBEEdward Lucie-SmithTate GalleryElisabeth CollinsTate Britain




This article is about the British artist. For the American running back, see Cecil Collins (American football). For the South Carolina politician, see Cecil L. Collins.



James Henry Cecil Collins, best known under the name Cecil Collins MBE (23 March 1908 – 4 June 1989) was an English painter and printmaker originally associated with the Surrealist movement.




Contents





  • 1 Life and works


  • 2 Exhibitions


  • 3 Bibliography


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links




Life and works


Collins was born in Plymouth and worked first as a mechanic at a firm based in Devonport. From 1924 to 1927 he attended Plymouth School of Art. In 1927 he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art where he won the William Rothenstein Life Drawing Prize.


From 1951 to 1975 he taught at the Central School of Art. Later, one of his pupils was Ginger Gilmour.[1][2]


Collins was awarded an MBE on 26 June 1979, to be dated 16 June 1979,[3] on the occasion of the celebration of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's birthday.[4]


BBC Radio ran a programme about him in 1981 in the Conversations with Artists series, with Edward Lucie-Smith. In 1984 BBC TV showed a 30-minute documentary devoted to Collins, 'Fools and Angels', in the 'One Pair of Eyes' series.


A retrospective exhibition of his prints was held at the Tate Gallery in 1981. A retrospective of his paintings took place (before Collins died) in 1989.[4]


His widow Elisabeth Collins died in 2000 and, in 2008, 250 of Collins' paintings worth £1 million were given to museums and galleries in the UK.[4]


In honour of the centenary of his birth, an exhibition of Collins' work took place at Tate Britain in Autumn 2008.[5]



Exhibitions


  • 1935 - Bloomsbury Gallery, London, England

  • 1936 - International Surrealist Exhibition - New Burlington Galleries, London, England

  • 1942 - Toledo Museum of Fine Art, USA

  • 1948 - New Paintings by Cecil Collins - Lefevre Gallery, London, England

  • 1950 - New Paintings - Heffer Gallery, Cambridge, England

  • 1951 - Leicester Galleries

  • 1953 - Society of Mural Painters

  • 1953 - Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

  • 1954 - Arts Council, London

  • 1956 - Leicester Galleries

  • 1959 - Whitechapel Gallery, London

  • 1961 - Gallery Zygos, Athens, Greece

  • 1964 - Carnegie International Exhibition, Pittsburgh, USA

  • 1965 - Arthur Tooth & Sons

  • 1967 - Crane Kalman Gallery

  • 1971 - Britain's Contribution to Surrealism - Hamet Gallery, London, England

  • 1972 - Retrospective Exhibition. Drawings, Paintings, Watercolours, Gouaches and Paintings 1936-1968

  • 1981 - New Works - Anthony d'Offay, London, England

  • 1981 - The Prints of Cecil Collins - Tate Gallery, London, England

  • 1983 - Plymouth Arts Centre

  • 1984 - Festival Gallery, Aldeburgh

  • 1988 - Recent Paintings - Anthony d'Offay, London, England

  • 1989 - Tate Gallery, London


Bibliography



  • The Gates of Silence (Grey Walls Press, 1944) by Wrey Gardiner with drawings by Cecil Collins


  • The Vision of the Fool (Grey Walls Press, 1947)


  • Cecil Collins: Painter of Paradise (1979) by Kathleen Raine


  • The Quest for the Great Happiness (1988) by William Anderson


  • In Celebration of Cecil Collins: Visionary Artist and Educator (2008) compiled and edited by Nomi Rowe


  • The Magic Mirror: Thoughts and Reflections on Cecil Collins (2010) by John Stewart Allitt

  • Meditations, Poems, Pages from a Sketch Book, by Cecil Collins (Golgonooza Press, 1997)

  • The Vision of the Fool and other Writings, by Cecil Collins, enlarged edition (Golgonooza Press, 2002)

  • Cecil Collins, The Artist as Writer and Image Maker, by Brian Keeble (Golgonooza Press, 2009)


References



  1. ^ Gilmour, Ginger. "Ginger Art". Retrieved 15 July 2011..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em


  2. ^ "Ginger Gilmour Sculptor details". ArtParkS Sculpture Park. Retrieved 15 July 2011.


  3. ^ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/47888/supplement/8/data.pdf


  4. ^ abc "Artist's £1m works left to the nation". BBC News. 2 March 2001. Retrieved 8 February 2014.


  5. ^ Andrew Lambirth (3 September 2008). "Cecil Collins — A Centenary Exhibition". The Spectator.



External links



  • 61 paintings by or after Cecil Collins at the Art UK site


  • Cecil Collins at the Tate Gallery


  • Eye of the Heart. The paintings of Cecil Collins. 1978. Arts Council England film collection









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