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      • John Keith Vaughan (23 August 1912 – 4 November 1977), was a British painter. His work is held in the collections of the Government Art Collection, National Galleries Scotland, National Portrait Gallery, Tate and Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK.


      Early life


      Born at Selsey in West Sussex, Vaughan attended Christ's Hospital school.
      He worked in an advertising agency until World War II, when as an intending conscientious objector he joined the St. John Ambulance; in 1941 he was conscripted into the Non-Combatant Corps.


      Art career



      Vaughan was self-taught as an artist. His first exhibitions took place during the war. In 1942 he was stationed at Ashton Gifford near Codford in Wiltshire, and paintings from this time include The Wall at Ashton Gifford (Manchester Art Gallery).
      During the war Vaughan formed friendships with the painters Graham Sutherland and John Minton, with whom after demobilisation in 1946 he shared premises. Through these contacts he formed part of the neo-romantic circle of the immediate post-war period. However, Vaughan rapidly developed an idiosyncratic style which moved him away from the Neo-Romantics. Concentrating on studies of male figures, his works became increasingly abstract.
      Vaughan is also known for his journals, selections from which were published in 1966 and more extensively in 1989, after his death. A gay man troubled by his sexuality, he is known largely through those journals.


      Educator


      Vaughan worked as an art teacher at the Camberwell College of Arts, the Central School of Art and later at the Slade School.


      Later life and death


      He was diagnosed with cancer in 1975 and died by suicide in 1977 in London, recording his last moments in his diary as the drugs overdose took effect.


      Art market


      His auction record of £313,250 was set at Sotheby's, London, on 11 November 2009, for the oil on canvas Theseus and the Minotaur, previously in the collection of Richard Attenborough (who bought it in 1967).


      Publications


      Keith Vaughan. Journals & Drawings, 1966, published in London by Alan Ross, 219 pages.
      Keith Vaughan: Journals 1939–1977, ed Alan Ross, 1989, published in London by John Murray, 217 pages, ISBN 0-7195-4732-6.
      Keith Vaughan, His Life and Work, Malcolm Yorke, 1990, published in London by Constable, 288 pages, ISBN 0-09-469780-9 (Hardback)


      Exhibitions


      1944
      Keith Vaughan: Gouaches and Drawings, Alex Reid and Lefevre Gallery, London
      1946
      Keith Vaughan: Paintings and Gouaches, Alex Reid and Lefevre Gallery, London
      1948
      Keith Vaughan: Paintings and Gouaches, George Dix Gallery, New York
      Keith Vaughan: Paintings, Gouaches and Monotypes, Alex Reid and Lefevre Gallery, London
      1950
      Keith Vaughan: Paintings and Gouaches, Instituto de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires
      Gouaches, Redfern Gallery, London
      1951
      Keith Vaughan: Paintings and Gouaches, Alex Reid and Lefevre Gallery, London
      1952
      Keith Vaughan: Retrospective Exhibition, Redfern Gallery, London
      Keith Vaughan – Drawings for Rimbaud: Une Saison en Enfer, Hanover Gallery, London
      Keith Vaughan: Paintings and Gouaches, Durlacher Bros, New York
      1953
      Keith Vaughan: Paintings, Leicester Galleries, London
      1955
      Keith Vaughan: Gouaches, Leicester Galleries, London
      Keith Vaughan: Paintings and Gouaches, Durlacher Bros, New York
      1956
      Keith Vaughan: New Paintings, Leicester Galleries, London
      Keith Vaughan: Retrospective Show, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
      1957
      Keith Vaughan: Travelling Retrospective, (based on Keith Vaughan: Retrospective Show, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle), Arts Council
      Keith Vaughan: Paintings and Gouaches, Durlacher Bros, New York
      1958
      Keith Vaughan: Paintings, Leicester Galleries, London
      1959
      Keith Vaughan: Paintings and Gouaches, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
      Keith Vaughan, Leicester Galleries, London
      1960
      Keith Vaughan: Paintings, Gouaches and Drawings, Matthiesen Gallery, London
      1962
      Keith Vaughan: Retrospective Exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery, London
      1963
      Keith Vaughan: Drawings, Bienal de Sao Paulo
      1964
      Keith Vaughan: Paintings, Gouaches and Charcoals, Marlborough New London Gallery, London
      1965
      Keith Vaughan: Gouaches, Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford
      Keith Vaughan: Recent Gouaches, Marlborough Fine Art, London
      1966
      Keith Vaughan: Paintings, Durlacher Bros, New York
      1967
      Keith Vaughan: Retrospective Drawings, Tib Lane Gallery, Manchester
      1968
      Keith Vaughan: Gouaches, Rex Evans Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
      Keith Vaughan: New Paintings, Marlborough Fine Art, London
      Keith Vaughan: Gouaches and Drawings 1942–46, Hamet Gallery, London
      1969
      Keith Vaughan: Retrospective Exhibition, Mappin Gallery, Sheffield
      Keith Vaughan: Drawings, Tib Lane Gallery, Manchester
      1970
      Keith Vaughan: Paintings, Gouaches and Drawings, Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford
      Keith Vaughan: Gouaches and Drawings, Hamet Gallery, London
      Keith Vaughan: Retrospective, University of York, York
      1973
      Keith Vaughan: New Paintings, Waddington Galleries, London
      Keith Vaughan: Paintings in Gouaches, Victor Waddington Gallery, London
      1976
      Keith Vaughan: New Paintings and Gouaches, Waddington Galleries, London
      Keith Vaughan: Paintings, Gouaches and Drawings, Tib Lane Gallery, Manchester
      Keith Vaughan: Paintings and Gouaches and Drawings, Compass Gallery, Glasgow
      1977
      Keith Vaughan: Memorial Exhibition, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
      1981
      Keith Vaughan: Images of Man: Figurative Paintings: 1946–1960, Geffrye Museum, London and Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
      1985
      Keith Vaughan: Drawings and Paintings, New Grafton Gallery, London
      Keith Vaughan: Early Drawings and Gouaches, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London
      1987
      Keith Vaughan: Paintings and Drawings, New Grafton Gallery, London
      Keith Vaughan: Paintings, Gouaches, Watercolours and Drawings 1936–76, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, Sunninghill
      Keith Vaughan: Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, Mercury Gallery, Edinburgh
      Keith Vaughan: Works on Paper, Garry Anderson Gallery, Darlinghurst
      1989
      Keith Vaughan, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London
      Keith Vaughan: Gouaches, Drawings, Notebook Sketches, Redfern Gallery, London
      1990
      Keith Vaughan: Retrospective, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London
      Keith Vaughan: Paintings, Drawings, Gouaches, Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath
      1991
      Drawings of the Young Male, St Jude's, London
      Keith Vaughan: Drawings, Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath
      1994
      Keith Vaughan: Works on Paper, Redfern Gallery, London
      1995
      Keith Vaughan: Les Illuminations de Rimbaud, an Exhibition of 42 Drawings, Deka, London
      Keith Vaughan: Paintings, Drawings and Gouaches, Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath
      1999
      Keith Vaughan: Gouaches and Drawings, Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath
      2000
      Keith Vaughan: Paintings, Gouaches, Drawings and Lithographs, Julian Lax, London
      2002
      Keith Vaughan: Retrospective, Winter Fine Art and Antiques Fair, Olympia, London
      2004
      Keith Vaughan: Drawings, Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath
      2007
      Keith Vaughan: Figure and Landscape, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
      Keith Vaughan: A Selection of Early Work from the Collection of Peter Adam, Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath
      Keith Vaughan: Paintings and Drawings, Osborne Samuel Gallery, London
      2009
      Keith Vaughan: Drawings, Abbott and Holder, London
      2010
      Drawings and Sketches for Paintings 1945–1960, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London
      Keith Vaughan: Four Decades of Drawing, Gallery 27, London
      2011
      Keith Vaughan: Gouaches, Drawings and Prints, Osborne Samuel Gallery, London
      Keith Vaughan: Works on Paper, Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath
      2012
      Keith Vaughan, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London
      Keith Vaughan: Works on Paper from the Estate of Keith Vaughan, Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath
      Keith Vaughan: Romanticism to Abstraction, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
      Keith Vaughan, Osborne Samuel Gallery, London


      Collections


      Vaughan's work is held in the following permanent collections:

      Government Art Collection, UK: 7 works (as of 19 April 2023)
      National Galleries Scotland, UK: 5 works (as of 19 April 2023)
      National Portrait Gallery, London: 1 work (as of 19 April 2023)
      Tate, UK: 1 painting (as of 19 April 2023)
      Victoria and Albert Museum, London: 32 objects (as of 19 April 2023)


      References




      External links



      102 artworks by or after Keith Vaughan at the Art UK site
      Modern British Artists: Vaughan

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