Augustus John OM

1878–1961

*A Jamaican Girl* 1937
© The estate of Augustus John. All Rights Reserved 2023 / Bridgeman Images
License this image

In Tate Britain

Historic and Modern British Art

In Tate St Ives

Prints and Drawings Rooms

4 artworks by Augustus John OM

View by Appointment

Biography

Augustus Edwin John (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a time he was considered the most important artist at work in Britain: Virginia Woolf remarked that by 1908 the era of John Singer Sargent and Charles Wellington Furse "... was over. The age of Augustus John was dawning." In the second volume of BLAST, Percy Wyndham Lewis wrote, referring to John, that the ten years up to 1914 had been "the Augustan decade." He was the younger brother of the painter Gwen John.

This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License. Spotted a problem? Let us know.

Read full Wikipedia entry