Anthony Green (born 30 September 1939) is an English realist painter and

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best known for his paintings of his own middle-class domestic life. His works sometimes use compound perspectives and

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forms—particularly with large, irregularly shaped canvasses. As well as producing oil paintings, he also produces a number of works designed from the start as limited edition prints, which are typically

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works.

Biography

Anthony Green was born on 30 September 1939 in

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, Bedfordshire, and educated at

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, London (where he was taught by

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) and the

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(where he first met lifelong friend and fellow RA Ben Levene). In 1960 he moved to Paris and

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on a scholarship from the Government of France. He returned to England in 1961 and married Mary Cozens-Walker, with whom he had two daughters, Kate and Lucy. His first one-man exhibition was held at the Rowan Gallery in 1962. He taught at the Slade from 1964 until 1967 when he received a

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and spent two years living in

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. Green was elected an Associate Member of the

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on 23 April 1971, was elected a full Member on 1 March 1977 and won the Royal Academy Summer Exhibit of the Year in 1977. He has had almost 100 one-man shows worldwide. A retrospective of his work was held at the Royal Academy in 1978, and in Japan in 1987–88. In 1991 he was elected a Fellow of

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and in 1996 was shortlisted for the

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. Green's work ''Resurrection'', a pictorial sculpture for the Millennium, toured UK cathedrals in 2000. In 2000, Green was appointed as a Trustee of the Royal Academy, and he was elected to the

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in 2002. In 2003 he was a featured artist at the

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. He lives and works in

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. Anthony Green RA is represented by Chris Beetles Gallery, London.

Public collections

The following public collections contain works by Green: *

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, Glasgow *

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, Lisbon *

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...

, New York *

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works ...

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, Cardiff *Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts,

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(in the ''Gabrielle Keiller Collection'') *

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, Tokyo *

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, London

Books

*Bailey, Martin, ed. ''A green part of the world: Anthony Green.'' London: Thames & Hudson, 1984. . *''Anthony Green 1960–86.'' Tokyo: The Japan Association of Art Museums / Yomiuri Shinbun, 1987. (No ISBN.) Catalogue of exhibitions held in Niigata, Tokyo, Osaka and Iwaki, 31 October 1987 – 15 May 1988; text in Japanese and English. *Bailey, Martin, ed. ''Anthony Green: Painting life.'' London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2017. .

External links

Personal web site
at the Royal Academy website. *

(painting and essay)

(many paintings shown)
An evening with Anthony Green RA
(Anthony Green in conversation with Frank Whitford at Wolfson College, Cambridge, on Weds 1 May 2013)

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