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Harold Yates (1916 - 2001)
Signed and dated, inscribed with title on reverse
Pen and ink, pencil, watercolour
10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.6 cm)
Size:
Height – 25.4cm x Width – 35.6cm
The Isle of Wight was the HQ of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry 5th Battalion.
During World War II Yates produced documentary work , which was bought
by War Artists’ Advisory Committee, and is now in the Imperial War Museum.
Aged 14 Yates attented Portsmouth School of Art for 18 months, where he
showed talent for figure work and developed an ambition to be an
illustrator. After joining a commercial studio aged 17 he became
disillusioned with the disciplines there and painted abstract works in
his spare time. Showed with AIA, London Gallery and had a solo show at
Foyles Gallery aged 19.
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Painter, mainly in watercolour, and draughtsman. His father was an amateur artist who worked as a cartoonist for the trade press. Aged 14 Yates attented Portsmouth School of Art for 18 months, where he showed talent for figure work and developed an ambition to be an illustrator. After joining a commercial studio aged 17 he became disillusioned with the disciplines there and painted abstract works in his spare time. Showed with AIA, London Gallery and had a solo show at Foyles Gallery aged 19. While in Army during World War II did documentary work which was bought by War Artists’ Advisory Committee, now in Imperial War Museum, at the same time producing pictures with a personal symbolism. After the Army worked as a freelance commercial artist and on the staff of a leading London advertising agency, while continuing to paint part-time. Yates had a solo show at Belgrave Gallery in 1989, a retrospective at Chappel Galleries, Chappel, Essex, in 1992.
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