John Houston
Birds, Flowers and Dark Sun
About this artwork
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artist:John Houston (1930 - 2008) Scottish
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title:Birds, Flowers and Dark Sun
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date created:About 1962
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:86.40 x 112.10 cm; Framed: 94.30 x 120.10 x 4.60 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased (Gulbenkian UK Trust Fund) 1962
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accession number:GMA 818
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John Houston
John Houston
Born in Fife, Houston studied and subsequently taught at Edinburgh College of Art. He retired in 1989, after having been departmental head of the painting school and director of the post-graduate department. The style of his early paintings was expressive and semi-abstract, but in the late 1960s...
