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British, b. 1932
The Guardian wrote of Gordon House, upon his death in 2004: Many of the works made during his last years by the painter and graphic designer Gordon House, who has died aged 71, referred back to his birthplace in the Swansea valley. He spent his earliest years in the steel town of Pontardawe. In Tin-pan Valley, the memoir he published earlier this year, he recalled "the clamour of steel mills ... the tinplate works and pithead gear" and "dynamite blasting as coal seams were struck higher up the valley". Unemployment and the depression of the 1930s led Gordon's parents to take him from the valleys of south Wales to the order and designed coherence of Letchworth, "Hertfordshire's first garden city". After leaving school at 14, he went to study, first, at Luton School of Art. For a while after that, he worked in a hospital, before, with the aid of a scholarship, moving on to St Albans School of Art. By 1961, Gordon had become established among a new generation of artists as an independently minded and adventurous painter and designer. The previous year, he had shown his large, bold, hard-edged canvasses at the important London "Situation" exhibition of large-scale abstract painting, and had designed the catalogue for that exhibition. As the 1960s moved on, Gordon designed for the pop world. He worked for the Beatles, designing their White album and the back of the Sergeant Pepper album, for which his longtime friend Peter Blake designed the front. Later, he designed Wings' first album. He delighted in the creative energy of others, and so could respond to the talents of musicians and artists alike. Gordon made paintings throughout his life as a designer. During the 1960s and 70s, his canvasses and prints reflected the dramatic tensions of his graphic design; by the 1980s, Wales had become his constant subject matter. The surface, texture and colour of his paintings softened. No doubt, he needed to pay homage to the places and the people who had shaped him, just as he always paid homage to the artists for whom he designed. His canvasses reduced in size, becoming palm-of-the-hand landscapes. He spent much time in Wales and, in his final years, he used his brush to walk a path through memories of collieries, valleys, smoking stacks, rows of cottages and the people who had first nurtured him.
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Artist: Gordon House
Red Tracery, from the After Powhatan Suite - Large Pink + Green Abstract Print
Red Tracery, from the After Powhatan Suite - Large Pink + Green Abstract Print

Red Tracery, from the After Powhatan Suite - Large Pink + Green Abstract Print

By Gordon House

Located in Kingsclere, GB

Gordon House 1932-2004 Red Tracery, from the After Powhatan Suite, 1992 unframed, screenprint 101.6 x 71.1 cm 40 x 28 in signed, titled, dated and numbered 4/20 in pencil Gordon Hou...

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Blue Buckler, from the After Powhatan Suite - Large Blue + Green Abstract Print
Blue Buckler, from the After Powhatan Suite - Large Blue + Green Abstract Print

Blue Buckler, from the After Powhatan Suite - Large Blue + Green Abstract Print

By Gordon House

Located in Kingsclere, GB

Gordon House 1932-2004 Blue Buckler, from the After Powhatan Suite, 1992 unframed, screenprint 121 x 80.6 cm 47 5/8 x 31 3/4 in signed, titled, dated and numbered 4/20 in pencil Gor...

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The Idea, from the FLW/ Highbury Portfolio Suite - 20th Century Abstract Print
The Idea, from the FLW/ Highbury Portfolio Suite - 20th Century Abstract Print

The Idea, from the FLW/ Highbury Portfolio Suite - 20th Century Abstract Print

By Gordon House

Located in Kingsclere, GB

Gordon House 1932-2004 The Idea, from the FLW/ Highbury Portfolio Suite, 1987 homemade print from an office copy machine 42 x 29.7 cm 16 1/2 x 11 3/4 in Gordon House was born in 193...

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Site Visit, from the FLW/ Highbury Portfolio Suite - 20th C Abstract Print
Site Visit, from the FLW/ Highbury Portfolio Suite - 20th C Abstract Print

Site Visit, from the FLW/ Highbury Portfolio Suite - 20th C Abstract Print

By Gordon House

Located in Kingsclere, GB

Gordon House 1932-2004 Site Visit, from the FLW/ Highbury Portfolio Suite, 1987 homemade print from an office copy machine 42 x 29.7 cm 16 1/2 x 11 3/4 in Gordon House was born in 1...

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Working, from the FLW/ Highbury Portfolio Suite - 20th Century Abstract Print
Working, from the FLW/ Highbury Portfolio Suite - 20th Century Abstract Print

Working, from the FLW/ Highbury Portfolio Suite - 20th Century Abstract Print

By Gordon House

Located in Kingsclere, GB

Gordon House 1932-2004 Working, from the FLW/ Highbury Portfolio Suite, 1987 homemade print from an office copy machine 42 x 29.7 cm 16 1/2 x 11 3/4 in Gordon House was born in 1932...

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Still Working, from the FLW/ Highbury Portfolio Suite - 20th C Abstract Print
Still Working, from the FLW/ Highbury Portfolio Suite - 20th C Abstract Print

Still Working, from the FLW/ Highbury Portfolio Suite - 20th C Abstract Print

By Gordon House

Located in Kingsclere, GB

Gordon House 1932-2004 Still Working, from the FLW/ Highbury Portfolio Suite, 1987 homemade print from an office copy machine 42 x 29.7 cm 16 1/2 x 11 3/4 in Gordon House was born i...

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Heavily textured abstract print in a serigraph and terragraph technique. It has a raised texture to the surface, A beautiful piece. This listing is for the one print, the cover justification sheet and the photograph are just included for provenance. This is from the limited edition of 100. Hand signed and numbered on colophon page. (They are not signed and numbered on each print) Arches paper. Dimensions: 15.75 X 15.25 These have a texture that feels like a painting. Done in Jaffa Israel based on the Hebrew Bible. Jewish, Judaica interest. Emil Schumacher is among the best-known exponents of Art Informel in Germany. His painting style, which he initially developed in the 1950s under the influence of Wols, is marked by dark, brownish black or brilliant thick red colours and a graffiti like sign language that endow the pictures the expressive character of old cracked masonry. 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International Art Exhibition, Tokyo. 1962: Premio Cardazzo, XXX Venice Biennale, Italy. 1962: First prize silver medal, Bang Danh-Du Award in celebration of the 1st International Arts Exhibition, Saigon, Vietnam. 1963: Großer Kunstpreis (Great Art Award) of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf, Germany. 1966: Prize of the Governor of Tokyo, in celebration of the 5th International Biennale Exhibition of Prints, Tokyo, 1968: Member of the Academy of Arts Berlin, Germany. 1974: Award of the city of Ibiza in celebration of the Graphic-Biennial 1974. 1978: August Macke Prize of the city of Meschede 1983: Receives Grand Cross of Merit with Star from the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. French art critic Michel Tapié named the influential European movement that during the 1950s paralleled Abstract Expressionism in the U.S, Art Informel. 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