1920-1999
Patrick Heron, best known as a painter, was also a textile designer and successful art critic. Heron lived at St Ives between 1925 and 1930 and later went onto study at the Slade School.
Heron's first one-man exhibition in London was at the Redfern Gallery in 1947 and in New York at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery in 1960. He was an art critic to the New Statesman and Nation 1947-50, and London correspondent to Arts (New York) 1955-8.
1956 Heron turned to abstract art paralleling recent American abstract painting and moved the same year to Zennor, Cornwall. Heron is the author of The Changing Forms of Art 1955, Ivon Hitchens 1955 and Braque 1956.
Patrick Heron
1920
Born on January 30th in Headingley, Leeds, Yorkshire
1935 - 1939
Works as designer for his father's firm, Cresta Silks
1937 - 1939
Studied at the Slade School of Art
1944 - 1945
Assistant at Bernard Leach's pottery, St Ives
1945
Moves to Holland Park, London
1944 - 1950
Works as designer for his father's firm, Cresta Silks
1953 - 1956
Taught at the Central School of Art, London
1956
Moves to Eagles Nest, Zennor, Cornwall
1945 - 1958
Critic for New English Weekly, New Statesman and Nation and Arts (New York)
1958
Moves into Nicholson's studio at Porthmeor, St Ives
1959
Winner of Grand Prize, in 2nd John Moores Exhibition
1965
Awarded Silver medal in the VIII Sao Paulo Bienal
1972
Retrospective at the Whitechapel Art Gallery
1977
Created CBE
1985
Retrospective at the Barbican Art Gallery
1998
Retrospective at Tate Britain
1999
Died in St Ives, 20 March
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008
The Effect Haim Steinbach, Waddington Galleries, London
2005
Patrick Heron: Gouaches from 1961 to 1996, Waddington Galleries, London
1998
Tate Gallery, London
1995
Patrick Heron, Arnolfini, Bristol
1994
Patrick Heron, Camden Arts Centre, London
Patrick Heron, Bodilly Galleries, Cambridge
1992
Patrick Heron, Waddington Galleries, London
1991
Patrick Heron, Waddington Galleries, London
1990
Patrick Heron, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Patrick Heron, Rex Irwin, Woollahra, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1989
Patrick Heron, Jersey Arts Centre, St. Helier
Patrick Heron, Waddington Galleries, London
1988
Patrick Heron, Oxford Gallery, Oxford
Patrick Heron, Chessel Gallery, Moray House College, Edinburgh
Patrick Heron, Plymouth Art Centre
1987
Patrick Heron, Waddington Galleries, London
1986
Patrick Heron, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
Patrick Heron, New Grafton Gallery, London
1985
Patrick Heron, Castlefield Art Gallery Manchester
Patrick Heron, Arcade Gallery, Harrogate
Patrick Heron, Barbican Art Gallery, Lonon
Patrick Heron, Newlyn Orion Gallery, Cornwall
Patrick Heron, Caledonian Club, Edinburgh
1984
Patrick Heron, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
1983
Patrick Heron, Waddington Galleries, London
1981
Patrick Heron, Riverside Studios, London
1979
Patrick Heron, Waddington Galleries, London
Patrick Heron, Oriel Gallery, Cardiff
1978
Patrick Heron, University of Texas at Austin Art Museum, USA
Patrick Heron, Bennington College, Vermont, USA
1977
Patrick Heron, Galerie Le Balcon des Arts, Paris, France
Patrick Heron, Waddington & Tooth Galleries, London1975
Patrick Heron, Waddington Galleries, London
Patrick Heron, Rutland Gallery, London
Patrick Heron, Festival of Bath, Bath
1974
Patrick Heron, Skinner Galleries, Perth, Western Australia
Patrick Heron, Prints on Prince Street, New York
1973
Patrick Heron, Waddington Art Gallery, London
Patrick Heron, Hester Van Royen Gallery, London
Patrick Heron, Bonython Art Gallery, Paddington, New South Wales, Australia
Patrick Heron, Midland Art Centre, Birmingham
1972
Patrick Heron, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1970
Patrick Heron, Waddington Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Patrick Heron, Mazelow Gallery, Toronto, USA
Patrick Heron, Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney; toured Australia
Patrick Heron, Waddington Galleries, London
Patrick Heron, Gallery Caballa, Harrrogate Festival of Arts & Science
1968
Patrick Heron, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Patrick Heron, Waddington Galleries, London
Patrick Heron, Park Square Art Gallery, Leeds
Patrick Heron, Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford
1967
Patrick Heron, Dawson Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Patrick Heron, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Patrick Heron, Kunstnernes, Oslo, Norway
Patrick Heron, Waddington Galleries, London
1965-67
VIII Bienal de Sao Paulo (representing Great Britain with Victor Pasmore); toured to Rio de Janiero, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Lima, and Caracas
1965
Patrick Heron, Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York
1964
Patrick Heron, Waddington Galleries, London
1963
Patrick Heron, Waddington Galleries, London
Heron, Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zurich, Switzerland
1960
Patrick Heron, Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York
Patrick Heron, Grinell College, Grinell, Iowa, USA
1956
Patrick Heron, Redfern Gallery, London
1955
Patrick Heron, Simon Quinn Gallery, Huddersfield
1954
Patrick Heron, Redfern Gallery, London
1953
Patrick Heron, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
II Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil; toured South America
1952
Patrick Heron, City Art Gallery, Wakefield; toured to University Galleries, Leeds; Bankfield Museum, Halifax; Scarborough Art Gallery; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham
1951
Patrick Heron, Redfern Gallery, London
1950
Patrick Heron, Redfern Gallery, London
Patrick Heron, Bristol City Art Gallery
1948
Patrick Heron, Redfern Gallery, London
1947
Patrick Heron, Redfern Gallery, London
Patrick Heron, Downing's Bookshop, St. Ives
Collections
Australia:
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Sydney University Colleection, Sydney
Canada:
London Art Gallery, London, ON
Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, PQ
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, PQ
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Eire:
University of Galway, Galway
Great Brtiain:
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford
C.E.M.A., Belfast
Bristol City Art Gallery, Bristol
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Eliot College, University of Kent, Canterbury
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Bishop Otter College, Chichester
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Cornwall house, Exeter University, Exeter
Exeter Art Gallery, Exeter
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
Leicestershire Education Committee, Leicester
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
British Broadcasting Corporation, London
British Council, London
British Museum, London
Contemporary Art Society, London
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, London
National Portrait Gallery, London
Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, London
Shell-Mex Limited, London
Tate Gallery, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Granada Television, Manchester
Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester
Hatton Art Gallery, Newcastle
Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich
Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Merton College, Oxford
New College, Oxford
Nuffield College, Oxford
Pembroke College, Oxford
St. John's College, Oxford
Plymouth City Art Gallery, Plymouth
Southampton Art Gallery, Southampton
University of Stirling, Stirling
Wakefield City Art Gallery, Wakefield
University of Warwick, Warwick
Japan:
Ohnishi Museum, Kogawa Prefecture
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
The Netherlands:
Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam
Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
Portugal:
Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
USA:
Museum of Art, Univeristy of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
University of Texas at Austin Art Museum, Austin, TX
Albreight-Know Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Selected Publications
2001, Patrick Heron, Fiona MacCarthy, Tate Gallery, London
1998, Patrick Heron, Tate Gallery, London
1994, Patrick Heron, Mel Gooding, Phaidon, London
1988, Patrick Heron, Vivien Knight, John Taylor/Lund Humphries, London