Rowland Suddaby (1912–1972) was a British artist and illustrator.
Rowland Suddaby was born in
Kimberworth
Kimberworth is a suburb of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. It is located in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, about 2 miles (3.5 km) north-west of Rotherham town centre and 5 miles (7.6 km) north-east of Sheffield. Until 19 ...
, Yorkshire in 1912.
Suddaby won a scholarship to
Sheffield College of Art and studied there from 1926.
Suddaby moved to London in 1931.
He exhibited in shows at London's
Wertheim Gallery
Lucy Carrington Wertheim (''née'' Pearson; 4 April 1883, in Seedley, Pendleton, Lancashire – 1971, in Brighton) was an English gallery owner who founded the Twenties Group of "English artists in their twenties" in 1930 and was Christopher ...
, and
The Redfern Gallery
The Redfern Gallery is an exhibition space in the West End of London specialising in contemporary British art. It was founded by Arthur Knyvett-Lee and Anthony Maxtone Graham in 1923 as an artists' cooperative on the top floor of Redfern H ...
from 1936, and later at Austin Desmond.
At the start of World War II, he moved to near
Sudbury Sudbury may refer to:
Places Australia
* Sudbury Reef, Queensland
Canada
* Greater Sudbury, Ontario
** Sudbury (federal electoral district)
** Sudbury (provincial electoral district)
** Sudbury Airport
** Sudbury Basin, a meteorite impact cra ...
, Suffolk, with his wife Elizabeth and daughter Joanna.
Suddaby's work is held in the collections of 18 UK galleries, including the V&A, and the Government Art Collection has 24 of his works.
References
1912 births
1972 deaths
British artists
People from Rotherham
Alumni of Sheffield Hallam University
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