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Julian Otto Trevelyan

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Born near Dorking, Trevelyan belonged to a modernist group which published the student magazine Experiment in Cambridge in 1928. In Paris in 1930 he studied under Léger and Ozenfant, and enrolled at S. W. Hayter's print workshop, Atelier 17, working with Miró, Ernst and Picasso. He settled in Hammersmith in 1935, and his work was included in the International Surrealist Exhibition in 1936. Trevelyan participated in Tom Harrison's Mass Observation in Bolton and Blackpool in 1937–1938. Trevelyan, a camouflage officer with the Royal Engineers, was invalided out on psychiatric grounds in 1943. An influential teacher, he taught printmaking at Chelsea (1950–1960) and the Royal College of Art (1955–1963).Deeply affected by the industrial north, he adopted an expressionist manner, evident in this self-portrait painted during the Blitz.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Julian Otto Trevelyan

Date

1940

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 61.1 x W 46.4 cm

Accession number

5807

Acquisition method

Purchased, 1985

Work type

Painting

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