David Oxtoby (artist)

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David Jowett Greaves Oxtoby (born 23 January 1938 in Horsforth), is an artist associated with the Pop Art Movement. [1] [2] [3]

Oxtoby studied at Bradford College from 1950 to 1957, and at the Royal Academy Schools from 1960 to 1964. He taught at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts from 1964 to 1965, and subsequently at Maidstone College of Art. in 1978 a book of his work "Oxtoby's Rockers", with text by David Sandison was published by Phaidon Press. [4] [5] [6]

He has said of his work painting images of popstars and pop music: "I started working on musical subject matter while studying graphics at Bradford College of Art during the fifties, completing three or more self-imposed record covers a day. These were actually small paintings (a fact I didn’t realize for many years) with lettering typeset in the Print Department and shoved on as an afterthought." Much of his work of the 1960s was lost in a warehouse fire. in the 1980s Oxtoby gave up exhibiting so as to devote himself to a series of large paintings on rock music. [6]

Collections

Oxtoby's work is in the collections of both the Victoria and Albert Museum [7] the National Portrait Gallery, London, Sheffield Art Gallery and other galleries in the UK and abroad. [3] [6]

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References

  1. Gallivan, Joseph (8 April 1994). "Exhibitions: Etch a falling star: David Oxtoby's drawings of rock dinosaurs are coveted by the stars themselves. Joseph Gallivan ponders their appeal". Independent. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  2. Vickers, Graham (2010). Rock Music Landmarks of London. Ombibux Press. ISBN   9780857123091 . Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  3. 1 2 "David Jowett Greaves Oxtoby". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  4. "David Oxtoby" Archived 2016-10-29 at the Wayback Machine , Redfern Gallery website, accessed 28 October 2016.
  5. Sandison, David (1978). "Oxtoby's Rockers". London: Phaidon. ISBN   0-7148-18542
  6. 1 2 3 "David Oxtoby" Bradford College 175 Heroes website, accessed 28 October 2016.
  7. "Experienced Acquaintance". Victoria and Albert Museum. 1974. Retrieved 5 September 2015.