Anthony Curtis (1928 - 2018)
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Still Life by Anthony Curtis
Still Life. 1956/7 Sold
 
Time Game by Anthony Curtis
Time Game. 1957 Sold
 
White City by Anthony Curtis
White City. 1957 Sold
 

Biography

A painter born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, Curtis studied at Loughborough College, (1948-50) at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham,(1950-1) and did a postgraduate diploma at London University (1974-6) his teachers including William Scott, Bryan Winter, Peter Lanyon and Kenneth Armitage. In 1955, Curtis was among those selected for the Daily Express Young Artists’ Exhibition at The New Burlington Galleries, London, and in 1957 he was included in Jack Beddington’s book ‘Young Artists of Promise’. He held his first solo show at the Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford in 1959. He was a member of Free Painters and Sculptors, and exhibited at the Royal West of England Academy, of which he was a member. He took part in a number of London exhibitions including the Redfern Gallery, the Zwemmer Gallery and the London Group. From 2000 he showed at London Art Fairs at the Royal College of Art with Julian Lax. In 2002 he won an International Prize at the Royal West of England Academy.