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Hugh Cronyn (British, 1905 – 1996)
Harvest on the Causse
Oil on canvas
Signed with initial ‘H.C’ (lower right)
24 x 40.1/4 in. (61 x 102 cm.)
Hugh Cronyn, of French-Canadian parentage, was born in Vancouver, Canada, in 1905. It was not until he started attending evening classes in drawing, whilst working for the Anglo-American Tea Company in Toronto between 1923 and 1928, that he received any kind of training. It was this which led him to become a student of Franz Johnston (1888-1949), a Canadian painter and illustrator. In 1929 Cronyn had the opportunity to go to New York to study portrait painting at the Art Students’ League. From 1931 to 1933 he worked in Paris under the cubist painter, André Lhote (1885-1962), who advised him to “remain abstract but also concrete, that is to say a caricaturist in the noble sense of the word”. This was a piece of advice which he seemed to have followed ever after.
After travelling through France, Italy, Germany and Spain, Cronyn settled in Hammersmith, London, where he worked freelance with a group of talented painters such as Julian Trevelyan (1910-1988) and Raymond Coxon (b. 1896). A year later, in 1936, he held his first one man show in Toronto. In 1939, at the outbreak of the Second World War, Cronyn enlisted in the Thames River Emergency service, then a unit of the Royal Navy, being commissioned as Lieutenant Commander, RNVR (1). At the end of the war he was awarded the George Medal for bravery in bomb disposal.
In 1942 he married Jean Harris and in 1946 became Director of Art at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, remaining there until 1949 when, for the next twenty years, he became a tutor in painting at the Colchester School of Art, all the while receiving acclaim in Canada and holding one man shows both in Victoria (British Columbia) and Montreal. Cronyn later moved to Suffolk with his wife and two daughters. Throughout this period he frequently travelled to Canada, painting in Quebec, Northern Ontario, The Rockies and Vancouver.
By 1960 he and his wife bought an old farmhouse in Quercy, South West France where he was able to paint the landscapes he loved. In 1975 they moved back to Hammersmith Reach on the Thames where, in between visits to France, he painted until he died in 1996.
Hugh Cronyn was a Member of Colchester Art Society from 1958 to 1996 and was made an Honorary Member in 1974.
- Creator:Hugh Cronyn (1905 - 1996, British)
- Dimensions:Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 40.25 in (102.24 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Condition:In good condition.
- Gallery Location:Petworth, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU540313605332
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