Artist: Roy Slade

Title: Island - an original signed oil painting on board, unframed

Description: Roy Slade (born 1933, Cardiff) is well known on both sides of the Atlantic as a painter and art teacher.  He studied at Cardiff School of Art under James Cresser Tarr 1949-54 and gained his teaching degree at the University of Wales 1954. After National Service in Malaya in the Army he returned to Wales and took a post teaching art and design at Heolgam School, Bridgend.  By 1957 he became very interested in the study and theory of colour, line, shape, form and texture, and his own painting became more and more abstract. In 1958 he had a one man show at the influential Howard Roberts Gallery in Cardiff, followed by other shows at The New Art Centre in Sloane Street, Chelsea 1960; Coventry Art Gallery 1964; and the Park Square Gallery, Leeds 1969.  His career as a teacher saw him move from Wales to Nottingham 1960-64, and then to Leeds College of Art with Eric Atkinson 1964-67.

Roy Slade settled in the United States in July 1967 and became an American citizen in 1975.  He has enjoyed considerable success as a painter and teacher and has had a number of solo shows in America, including at the Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington DC; Pyramid Gallery, Washington DC; and the Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan. Slade's work is held by The Contemporary Art Society, The Arts Council, Westinghouse Corporation, etc.  He was Director of the Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington DC 1972-77, Director of the Cranbrook Art Museum 1977-95, and President of the Cranbrook Academy of Art 1977-95, and now lives in Florida.

The present work is an unframed original oil on board, signed and dated 1960 and titled 'Island' to the reverse. It measures about 6 x 24.4 inches and is unframed. The painting has been in the same ownership since it was acquired from the artist some fifty years ago, and we think it probable that it was painted along the south coast of Wales.  The work is generally in good original condition, save for a 'bump' to one corner upper left which has resulted in relatively minor paint loss to that corner.  This scarce early painting shows Roy Slade's development as an artist, sitting as it does delightfully between representation and abstraction...

Price: £450

Size: 6 x 24.4 inches board size

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Ref #: 0877