NORMAN WILKINSON CBE, PRI, ROI, RSMA, HRWS (1878-1971)
Biography – Norman Wilkinson
Norman Wilkinson was an artist in oil, watercolour and drypoint, usually of marine subjects. Illustrator and poster artist, he also made an important contribution in both World Wars in the field of dazzle camouflage.
“Norman Wilkinson” painted by his son Rodney Wilkinson.
Born in Cambridge in 1878 he was educated at Berkhamsted School of Art. In 1898 he started contributing to The Illustrated News and The Illustrated Mail which was the start of a long association. In Paris in 1899 he studied figure painting but was already set upon working on marines.
With his love of the sea he travelled extensively including visits to Spain, Germany, Italy, Malta, Greece, Aden, Bahamas, United States, Canada, and Brazil. He was elected R.I. in 1906, Hon. Marine Painter to the Royal Yacht Squadron in 1919, P.R.I. in 1937 and awarded the C.B.E. in 1948.
S.S.Titanic Painting
Wilkinson had a painting of Plymouth in the smoking room of the S.S. Titanic. One of the finest marine painters of this century, he is well represented in many public collections, including the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich.
“Norman Wilkinson painting at Seaview on the Isle of Wight”
Member of : Royal Society of British Artists, President of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Royal Society of Marine Artists, Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-colours.
Exhibited:
Royal Academy
Royal Society of British Artists
Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours
Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Fine Art Society
Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts
Walker Art Gallery
Liverpool, Abbey Gallery
Royal Society of Artists
Birmingham
Beaux Arts Gallery
Related Artists : W.L.Wyllie, Charles Dixon and David Cobb
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Title: Ariel and Taiping in the Great Tea Race of 1864.
Medium: Original signed oil painting
Title: Yacht Racing, Cowes Week, Isle of Wight.
Medium: Original signed oil painting
Title: Gallions Reach on the Thames Estuary near to Woolwich Ferry, Greenwich, London
Medium: Original signed oil painting
Title: Grand Canal, Venice, Italy
Medium: Original signed oil painting
Title: Walmer Beach in Kent
Medium: Original signed oil painting
Title: Shipping off Gibraltar showing Europa Point and Catalan Bay with water catchment above.
Medium: Original signed oil painting
Title: Salmon Fishing
Medium: Original signed oil painting
Title: Cowes Week – On board Liberty 1920
Medium: Original signed watercolour painting
Title: The Seven Sisters, The edge of the South Downs in East Sussex, between the towns of Seaford and Eastbourne.
Medium: Original signed watercolour painting
Title: Dover Harbour, showing Dover Castle in Kent.
Medium: Original signed watercolour painting
Title: Breakwater
Medium: Original signed watercolour painting
Title: The Dardanelles – 1915
Medium: Original signed watercolour painting
Title: Venice
Medium: Original signed watercolour painting
Title: Quebec, looking east c.1956
Medium: Original signed watercolour painting
Title: Dover from the English Channel
Medium: Original signed watercolour painting
Title: River Wye
Medium: Original signed watercolour painting
Title: Passing ships.
Medium: Original signed watercolour painting
Title: Gillie
Medium: Original signed drypoint etching
Title: The Lure
Medium: Original signed drypoint etching
Title: The Survivors
Medium: Original signed drypoint etching