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John Wonnacott

A Biographical Study
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In this first major study of the work of the painter John Wonnacott (b.1940), Charles Saumarez Smith has surveyed a body of work produced at a tangent to the orthodoxies of modernism. Exploring the artist's formative experiences at the Slade, which connected him with artists such as Frank Auerbach and Michael Andrews and the School of London more broadly, Saumarez Smith roots Wonnacott's approach in his commitment to the discipline of drawing, his acute skills in observational analysis and the mechanics of graphic invention that makes his visual response to the world so memorable. Alongside commissioned portraits created in the grandest of architectural spaces, from naval bases to the Painted Hall at Greenwich and including John Major in 10 Downing Street and the Royal Family in Buckingham Palace, he has produced a revealing diary of self-portraits stretching back from his early teens and landscape paintings of light and sky which are celebrations of his native Essex coastline. In presenting the full range of Wonnacott's impressive oeuvre, the scope of the artist's remarkable achievement is revealed.
Charles Saumarez Smith is a freelance writer, curator and art historian. He has served as Director at the National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery and as Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts. He is currently Professor of Architectural History at the Royal Academy of Arts, Chairman of The Royal Drawing School and The Watercolour World, a Trustee of the Garden Museum, and Emeritus Trustee of ArtUK and Charleston.
Introduction; Chapter 1: Early Life; Chapter 2: The School of London; Chapter 3: The Family; Chapter 4: Chalkwell; Chapter 5: Teaching; Chapter 6: Dealers; Chapter 7: John Major; Chapter 8: The Landscape of Essex; Chapter 9: The Royal Family; Chapter 10: Self-portraits and Friends; Chapter 11: Late Works; Chapter 12: Critical Reflections; Acknowledgements; Index
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