signed and dated ’55’; also signed, inscribed with title and dated (on the reverse)
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Winter Study, 1955
Exhibition History:
Venice, Biennale Internazionale d’Arte di Venezia; Edinburgh, Arts Council Gallery, 1955;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, 6 March – 15 April 2012;
Somerset, Hestercombe Gallery, A Personal Passion, 25 April – 5 July 2015;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Road to Abstraction, 21 May – 24 July 2016
Literature:
Andrew Lambirth, William Gear, Sansom & Company, Bristol, 2015 (illustrated, p. 206, fig. 217)
Many of William Gear’s paintings are abstract compositions inspired by landscapes and feature heavy black lines and bold swatches of colour. He was awarded a Festival of Britain Purchase Prize in 1951 and his work appeared at the 1954 Venice Biennale. Gear was also Curator of the Towner Art Gallery (1958-64) and Head of the Faculty of Fine Art, Birmingham College of Art (1964-1975).
