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John Craxton was born on 3 October, 1922 in St John's Wood, London, is an English painter. Discover John Craxton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?
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17 November, 2009 |
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John Craxton Net Worth
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His older brother Harold Antony Craxton (1918–1999) became a leading television producer and outside broadcaster.
His sister Janet became a notable oboist.
He went to Clayesmore School but left without qualifications.
He applied for Chelsea School of Art but was considered to be too young to attend nude life classes.
John Leith Craxton RA, (3 October 1922 – 17 November 2009) was an English painter.
He was sometimes called a neo-Romantic artist but he preferred to be known as a "kind of Arcadian".
John was the son of musician Harold Craxton and his wife Essie.
Instead he studied at the Académie Julian and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris during 1939, until the outbreak of war meant he had to complete his studies in London, at Westminster School of Art and the Central School of Arts and Crafts.
Between 1941 and 1942, having been rejected for military service on medical grounds, he attended Goldsmiths College, then toured the wilds of Pembrokeshire with Graham Sutherland in 1943.
His first solo exhibition was in London in 1942 at the Swiss Cottage Café, and his first major solo show at the Leicester Galleries in 1944.
He produced lithographs for several anthologies edited by Geoffrey Grigson, including Visionary Poems (1944).
His work was seen as part of the neo-romantic revival, and his early pre-1945 work shows the influence of Sutherland and Samuel Palmer, and he was also heavily influenced by friend and patron Peter Watson.
After the war he travelled to the Isles of Scilly, Switzerland, Istanbul, Spain, Italy, but mainly Greece especially Crete, from 1946 to 1966.
The writer Richard Olney remembered Craxton in Paris, en route to Greece during the summer of 1951;
In 1951 Craxton was a ballet designer for the production of Daphnis et Chloé by the Sadler's Wells Ballet (now The Royal Ballet) at Covent Garden, at a time when ballet stage design provided a haven for the neo-Romantic arts.
He was able to use his first-hand experience of Greece to inform his ballet designs.
He had numerous shows of his paintings in both England and Greece.
A major retrospective show was held at Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1967.
His later work became more formal, structured and decorative, although still expressing Romantic pastoral themes.
He produced the scenery and costumes for the Royal Opera House's 1968 production of Igor Stravinsky's Apollo.
His work was also reproduced in magazines such as New Writing, Horizon, and he has illustrated the books of Patrick Leigh Fermor.
He moved permanently to Crete from about 1970, and switched between living in Crete and in London.
He was elected Royal Academician in 1993.
Craxton lived and worked in both Chania, Crete and London.
His love of Crete extended to his being one of the British Honorary Consuls there.
He died aged 87, survived by his long-term partner Richard Riley.
A monograph by Ian Collins about Craxton's work, John Craxton, was published by Lund Humphries in 2011.
The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge held an exhibition of his work from December 2013 to 21 April 2014.
In 2021, Ian Collins published a full biography: John Craxton: A Life of Gifts (Yale University Press); this book won the Runciman Award in 2022.