Artist      Claude Rogers
Title       The Theatre Trolley
Date      1950's
object    Painting
Media    oil
Size       20.5 x 24cm
Ref         163

Purchased in the 106th RWA Annual Exhibition in 1958

Other websites featuring this artist's work/
www.tate.org.uk/
www.npg.org.uk

The Theatre Trolley
Born in London in 1907, Claude Rogers was largely known as a skilled and well regarded painter of portraits, landscapes and scenes of everyday life. He studied at the Slade School of Art. He travelled in his youth, working in Paris in 1930 and at Gravesend in 1931.

Rogers became an active member of the London Artists' Association between 1931- 4 with his first exhibition under their auspices in 1933. In 1937, he married his fellow painter Elsie Few, . together with their friends, Victor Pasmore, William Coldstream and Graham Bell they became the Euston Road School, their stated aim being “for the purpose of retrieving a firm objective standpoint in the visual object“. Rogers and Few were also members of the London Group from 1938 and he became the group's President in 1952. Rogers was also a long-time member of the N.E.A.C.

During World War Two he served with the Royal Engineers and in the immediate post-war period taught at Camberwell School of Art from 1945-50 and then at the Slade School of Art from 1950 onward. Rogers was aVisitor of the R.C.A. between 1955-8. He had a major retrospective exhibition at the Hatton Galler yin Newcastle in 1955, which went on to tour the UK. He was awarded the O.B.E. for his services to Art and Education in 1959. His works are held in many publuc collections, includeing the Tate Gallery, and the National Portrait Gallery.

A significant figure in British modernism, Claude Rogers died in 1979.

Further Reading:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964,

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