Alan Reynolds
1926 - 2014
Alan Reynolds
Alan Reynolds (1926–2014) was a British painter and constructive artist whose career fell into two distinct phases: richly structured neo-romantic landscapes of the 1950s and early 1960s, and austere abstract reliefs and drawings made over the following decades.
Reynolds established his name in the 1950s with closely observed rural subjects, painted with a strong underlying structure and an early pull towards geometry. He returned repeatedly to orchards, fields and hop gardens, and showed regularly at the Redfern Gallery during the decade.
By the end of the 1950s he began moving away from landscape towards abstraction, later turning to austere reliefs and modular drawings. Alongside his studio practice he taught at the Central School of Art and Design (1954–61) and later at Saint Martin’s School of Art.
His work is held by major collections including Tate; the Victoria and Albert Museum; the Government Art Collection; Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the National Gallery of Canada.
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Sycamore Shoreham (1953)