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About Artist Ron Atkin
Ron As an Author:
Ron Atkin has had 2 books published;
GOLDEN JOURNEYS Song Of The Sea and
VIRGIN GIVE BIRTH TO A FISH with one eye - ISBNs - 09538907-7-5 and 09538907-9-1
1954-57 Studied at Loughborough College of Art. Won Scholarship to Royal
Academy Schools London. The same schools Turner, Blake and Constable
attended. 1957-61 awarded bronze and silver medals for painting and three
David Murray travelling Scholarships for landscape painting, and a portrait
drawing prize. Graduated in 1961.
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COLLECTIONS
Paintings in private collections in Canada, U.S.A. U.K. Australia,
Germany, Spain, Zurich and Lucerne.
Devon County Council Schools Museum Service.
Lincoln College, Oxford. Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery.
Dartington Hall Trust, where two are with works by Mark Tobey, Cecil Collins, Winifred Nicholson, Ann Fawssett Atkin, Ben Nicholson, David Jones, Jacob Epstein and Henry Moore.
1975 5' x 4' Watercolour in R.A. Summer Exhibition, reproduced by Apollo
Magazine.
Critics comment being that it was one of the best of three out of
1,300 in the Summer Exhibition.
Sold to private collector at the PV.
Then sold again at Bonhams Chelsea: Thursday, March 31st, 1994 (Lot 62) MODERN
&CONTEMPORARY BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL PICTURES.
1984 Short-listed for a Gulbenkian Print maker s award.
1990-98
Featured in first and second edition of Dictionary of British Art volume
VI, 20th Century Painters and Sculptors 1990/91 by Frances Spalding and
Judith Collins, the Curator in the Modern Collection at the Tate Gallery.
Also in Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945 by David Buckman 1998
EXHIBITIONS
1959 Royal Society of British Artists.
1959 R.A. Schools Exhibition, Southhampton City Museum and Art
Gallery.
1959-60 Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Portrait of Boy goes on tour
of UK.
1960 Royal Society of British Artists.
1960 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
1961 Royal Watercolour Society Galleries, Bond Street
1961 Brighton Museum and Art Gallery.
1961 Mixed Exhibition, Roland Browse and Delbanco, Cork Street, and
South Africa.
1962 Paintings and Sculpture from some Oxford Junior Common Rooms,
Leicester City Museum and Art Gallery.
1964 Mixed Exhibition, Roland Browse and Delbanco, Cork Street, London,
Wl.
1969 Mixed Exhibition, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery and the Kemptown
Gallery
1970 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
1972 One -Person show, Beaford Centre, North Devon.
1973 Mixed Exhibition, Roland Browse and Delbanco, Cork Street.London, Wl.
1975 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
1975 One-Person show, Beaford Centre, North Devon.
1976 One-Person show, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery.
1980 One-Person show. Sponsored by South West Arts, at the Burton Art
Gallery, Bideford Devon.
1982 One-Person show, Chenil Art Gallery, King's Road London, SW3.
1982-83 Travelled throughout Australia painting.
1984 London Group, Royal College of Art.
1987-89 Burton Art Gallery, and The Gallery' N. Devon.
1990 One-Person show, Burton Art Gallery.
1992 Beaford Group, The Plough Torrington.N.Devon.
1993 Joint Exhibition with Wife '30 Years Apart' The Plough. N. Devon.
"This is a rare opportunity to view the work of two of our most gifted
artists and one which really should not be missed"
Rob Butler, Director.
1998 Reynolds Club Exhibition, Royal Academy Schools.
2003 Six foot Sculpture sold at RHS Rosemoor Gardens exhibition.
2006 Joint Exhibition with Ann Fawssett Atkin Beaford Centre July,
August and September
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