David Jones

1895–1974

Biography

Walter David Jones CH, CBE (known as David Jones, 1 November 1895 – 28 October 1974) was both a painter and one of the first-generation British modernist poets. As a painter he worked chiefly in watercolour, painting portraits and animal, landscape, legendary and religious subjects. He was also a wood-engraver and designer of inscriptions. As a writer he was considered by T. S. Eliot to be of major importance, and his work The Anathemata was considered by W. H. Auden to be the best long poem written in English in the 20th century. Help in forming his work came from his Christian beliefs and Welsh heritage.

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Artworks

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David Jones The Garden Enclosed

1924
David Jones Aphrodite in Aulis

1940–1
David Jones Exiit Edictum

1949
David Jones Sanctus Christus de Capel-y-ffin

1925
David Jones Illustration to the Arthurian Legend: The Four Queens Find Launcelot Sleeping

1941
David Jones The Chapel in the Park

1932
David Jones Illustration to the Arthurian Legend: Guenever

1938–40
David Jones The Terrace

1929

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Artist as subject

David Jones The Garden Enclosed

1924
Prunella Clough Diary

18 November 1944–27 February 1947

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Henry Moore OM, CH, recipient: Ben Nicholson OM Letter from Henry Moore to Ben Nicholson

29 June 1931

Features

Tate Etc

Tate Etc. issue 30: Spring 2014

Online edition of Tate's magazine featuring Richard Deacon, Henri Matisse, Richard Hamilton and more, published 15 January 2014
Art Term

Gouache

Gouache is a type of water-soluble paint that, unlike watercolour, is opaque so the white of the paper surface does ...
Tate Etc

Transmogrified by the trenches: David Jones at Tate Britain

The acclaimed poet Christopher Reid reflects on The Garden Enclosed 1924, currently on display at Tate Britain, which may have ...