1932-2000
1932
Born, London.
1948-50
Attended Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, awarded David Murray Scholarship.
1951
Received State Scholarship for the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London. First exhibited with the London Group.
1952
Received Spanish State Scholarship to work in Segovia, Spain.
1953
Awarded Abbey Minor Scholarship (Prix de Rome). Traveled to France, Holland, Belgium; spent six months in Italy.
1954
Did building work and farming as a conscientious objector.
1957
Worked in France and Spain. Visited Giacometti with David Sylvester.
1959
Moved to studio in Battersea.
1960
Elected member of the London Group.
1961
Uglow taught part-time at the Slade and Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts. Second prize in junior section of John Moore exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
1962
Worked in France and Italy.
1963
Worked in Morocco.
1968
Worked in Turkey.
1970
Won Edwin Austin Abbey Premier Scholarship.
1972
Uglow was winner of first prize for the painting 'Nude, from Twelve Regular Vertical Positions from the Eye' 1967 at 'The John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 8', Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
1972-74
Worked in Italy during the summer months.
1976
Worked in Italy.
1980
Worked in Cyprus.
1983
Worked in Cyprus.
1984
Invited to the British Council to visit India for the exhibition The Proper Study, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
1985
Worked in Cyprus.
1987
Invited to teach in China.
1990-95
Artist Trustee, National Gallery, London.
1997
Honorary member of the London Institute.
2000
Died 31st August in London.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1961
Euan Uglow. Paintings and Drawings, Beaux Arts Gallery, London
1969
Uglow Drawings, Gardener Centre, Sussex University, London
1974
Euan Uglow, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (Arts Council touring exhibition)
Uglow: Drawings, Colnaghi, London
1977
Euan Uglow: recent paintings and drawings, Browse and Darby, London
1983
Euan Uglow: paintings and drawings, Browse and Darby, London
1989
Euan Uglow: Nudes, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1991
Euan Uglow: Ideas, 1952-91, Browse and Darby, London
1993
Euan Uglow, Salander O'Reilly Gallery, New York, in association with Browse and Darby
1997
Euan Uglow, Browse and Darby, London
1999
Euan Uglow: Drawings, Browse and Darby, London
2001
Euan Uglow: Night Paintings, Browse and Darby, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
1960-61
Modern British Portraits, The Arts Council Gallery, Cambridge, and tour (Arts Council exhibition)
1961
New Painting 1958-61, Torquay Art Gallery, and tour (Arts Council exhibition)
John Moores 3, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1962
Drawing towards painting, Six young painters, Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum
1964
London Group 1914-64, Jubilee exhibition - Fifty Years of British Art, Tate Gallery, London, and tour (Arts Council exhibition)
Six Young Painters, Blackburn Art Gallery, and tour (Arts Council exhibition)
1968
Helen Lessore and the Beaux Arts Gallery, Marlborough Fine Art, London
1971
Painting and Perception, The MacRobert Arts Centre Gallery, University of Sterling
The Slade 1871-1971, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1972
John Moore's 8, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1975
Body and Soul, Peter Moores Liverpool Project 3, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1976
The Human Clay, Hayward Gallery, London, and tour (Arts Council exhibition)
1977
British Painting, 1953-1977, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1979
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London (Arts Council exhibition)
The Knot of Life, L.A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles
1980
The British Art Show, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, and tour (Arts Council exhibition)
1981
Eight Figurative Painters, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
From Object to Object, Worcester City Museum and Art Gallery, and tour (Arts Council exhibition)
1984
The Proper Study, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi (British Council exhibition)
The Hard Won Image, Tate Gallery, London
1984-85
The Singular Vision, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter and tour
1985
British Arts in Italy, Canterbury College of Art
1986
Studies of the Nude, Marlborough Fine Art, London
1987-88
Invited artist, 8th International Drawing Biennale, Cleveland
1990
The Pursuit of the Real, Manchester City Art Gallery, and tour
1991-92
Bacon to Now, The outsider in British Figuration, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
1992-93
British Figurative Painting of the 20th Century, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1994
Five Protagonists, Browse and Darby, London
2000
La Mirada Fuerte. Pintura degurative de Londres, Mexico City (British Council exhibition)
2000
Encounters, National Gallery, London
Selected Bibliography
Coldstream, William, Laughton, Bruce, The Slade 1871-1971, exhibition catalogue, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1971
Cork, Richard, The School of London and their Friends, The Collection of Elaine and Melvin Merians, exhibition catalogue, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2000
Feaver, William, La Mirada Fuerte, exhibition catalogue, British Council, Mexico, 2000
Forge, Andrew, Painting and Perception, exhibition catalogue, The MacRobert Arts Centre Gallery, University of Stirling, 1971
Forge, Andrew, Euan Uglow, Paintings and Drawings, exhibition catalogue, Salander O'Reilly Galleries, New York, 1993
Gayford, Martin, A Thing Living in itself - A conversation with Euan Uglow, Modern Painters, Spring 2001, Volume 14, Number 1
Golding, Martin, Euan Uglow's Nudes, exhibition catalogue, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1989
Gowing, Lawrence, Eight Figurative Painters, exhibition catalogue, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981
Hyman, James, British Figurative Painting of the 20th century, exhibition catalogue, British Council, 1992
Hyman, James, The Battle for Realism, Yale University Press, 2001
Kendall, Richard, Manchester, London, Glasgow. The Pursuit of the Real, Burlington Magazine, May 1990
Kendall, Richard, Still Life Paintings (Ideas 1952-1991), exhibition catalogue, Browse & Darby, London, 1991 Kendall, Richard, Euan Uglow Drawings, exhibition catalogue, Browse & Darby, London, 1999
Kendall, Richard, The School of London and their Friends, The Elaine and Melvin Merians Collection, Burlington Magazine, January 2001
Kendall, Richard, Euan Uglow, Night Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Browse & Darby, London, 2001
Kitaj, The Human Clay, exhibition catalogue, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976
Lambirth, Andrew, Snatches of Conversation, exhibition catalogue, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1989 Lambirth, Andrew, 'A State of Emergency', Modern Painters, Summer 1992
Lambirth, Andrew, Five Protagonists, exhibition catalogue, Browse & Darby, London, 1994
Lambirth, Andrew, Encounters, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery, London, 2000
Lambirth, Andrew, 'Euan Uglow', London Magazine, April/May 2001
Lampert, Catherine, Painting from Life, exhibition catalogue, Hayward Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1979
Lampert, Catherine, Euan Uglow, The Proper Study, exhibition catalogue, British Council, 1984
Lampert, Catherine, Euan Uglow, exhibition catalogue, Browse & Darby, London, 1997
McLean, John, Euan Uglow, paintings and drawings, exhibition catalogue, Salander O'Reilly Galleries, New York, 1993
Morphet, Richard, The Hard Won Image, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London, 1984
Murphy, Myles, Euan Uglow: paintings and drawings, exhibition catalogue, Browse & Darby, London, 1983
Piper, David, Introduction, Euan Uglow, drawings, exhibition catalogue, Colnaghi, London, 1974
Prendeville, Brendan, A Measure of Reality, exhibition catalogue, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, 2002
Rothenstein, John, Modern English Painters (3 volumes), London, 1974
Seddon Jones, Julie, Euan Uglow, exhibition catalogue, Browse & Darby, London, 1989
Sylvester, David, 'Getting it Right', Modern Painters, Summer 1997
Troostwyck, 'New Work, Euan Uglow's Diagonal', The Studio, vol. 187, May 1974
Willing, Victor, 'Opaque Perception', Art Monthly, December/January 1978