Artist     Rodney Burn
Title      The Breakwater
Date      1970's
object    Painting
Media    oil
Size      30.5 x 40.5cm
Ref         547

Purchased in the 122nd RWA Annual Exhibition in 1974

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The Breakwater
Born in 1899, Rodney Burn was a noted painter of post-impressionistic landscape and figurative works. He was the son of Sir Joseph Burn and studied at the Slade School bewteen 1918-22 after service in the trenches of World War One.

He exhibited widely, with the New English Art Club. from 1923 and individually, including at the RA (where he was eventually elected as an acadmician in 1962).and at the RWA among others.

Burn was a tutor at the R.C.A. from 1929-31 and again at the City and Guilds School and Camberwell School of Art post World War Two. Rodney Burn was also the Director of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston, U.S.A., for a period in the early thirties.

Rodney Burn passed away in 1984 at the age of 85. A prize named afyer him by the Slade School of Art is awarded each year by the Council on the recommendation of the Professor of Fine Art 

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