The Spectators, 1951
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Michael Ayrton, born in London in 1921, was an English artist best known for his sculpture (though he produced paintings and prints and wrote numerous articles, essays and radio broadcasts as well). Ayrton had plans for an artistic career from an unusually early age, leaving school at just 14 years old to start work as a painter.
Ayrton’s sheer determination and focus in his own work, his rejection of the artistic trends which flooded the mid-20th century, meant that he was all too isolated from mainstream criticism and he has remained relatively little known. He died in 1975 and is only now beginning to gain the attention he has long deserved.
Ayrton’s sheer determination and focus in his own work, his rejection of the artistic trends which flooded the mid-20th century, meant that he was all too isolated from mainstream criticism and he has remained relatively little known. He died in 1975 and is only now beginning to gain the attention he has long deserved.
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During the Second World War much of London was scarred with bomb damage. The Lyons Teashops had not received any maintenance during the five years the war lasted and their interiors were showing signs of wear. Felix and Julie Salmon (Directors) felt that, rather than redecorate, they could be brightened by some pictures and, wanting to encourage young post war artists, approached Jack Beddington, Artistic Director of Shell-Mex, for advice. The first series of sixteen posters were printed in 1947 by the craftsmen lithographers at Chromoworks Ltd, London. Artists included L.S Lowry, Edward Ardizzone, Mary Kessell, Edward Bawden, John Nash and Anthony Gross. The print run for the initial sixteen commissions was 1500, no reprints were undertaken. By special request a copy of each of the lithographs was retained and viewed by Queen Mary. Due to the popularity of the prints two subsequent series were commissioned in 1951 and 1955, including artists such as Michael Ayrton, Edwin Ladell, John Minton, David Gentleman and John Piper. As the lithographs were printed on thin paper and often pasted directly onto the walls of the Lyons Teashops very few have survived intact.
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