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Robert Arthur Wilson (1884 - 1979)
Signed and dated
Watercolour, 10 x 7 in. (25.3 x 17.7 cm.)
Size:
Height – 25.3cm x Width – 17.7cm
Provenance: the artist’s family
Exhibited: R.A. Wilson: Exhibition of Paintings and Colour Studies, Guild of Decorators’ Syndicate, London, May 1922
Literature: Memoirs of an Individualist,’ privately printed autobiography, Brighton 1972
In 1919,Wilson’s work was included in an extraordinary exhibition organised by the art critic James Wood for The Cambridge Magazine, alongside Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Amedeo Modigliani.
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Painter in oil, tempera and watercolour, printmaker and teacher, horn
in Monk Wearmouth, County Durharrr. He was apprenticed to a sign-writer until 21, studying part-time at Sunderland School of Art. A
Government National Scholarship took him to the Royal College of Art
where he won a scholarship. Then studied at Acad mie Julian, in Paris,
and under Percyval Tudor-Hart, a major influence. Married the painter
Stella Louise Wilson and was the father of the artist Arthur Wilson,
Taught part-time in Surrey and London art schools. Showed RA, Paris
Salon and SGA and had a series of solo exhibitions including Sunderland
Art Gallery, notably in 1965. Wrote on tempera and the use of colour
and in 1972 privately published his Memoirs of an Individualist.
British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum hold his work, which
has an honest, art-and-crafts complexion. R A Wilson, as he liked to be
known, lived in Bletchingley. Surrey.