Augustus John Art Collection 1903-1946

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Augustus John Art Collection 1903-1946

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00206/00206-P.html

The Collection consists of ten portraits on paper (drawings, etchings, and reproductive prints) of well known English contemporaries of John. The Manuscripts Collection holds papers of Augustus John, including letters to Dora Carrington, Edward Gordon Craig, and Ottoline Morrell.

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John, Augustus

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Augustus Edwin John was born January 4, 1878, at Tenby, Pembrokeshire, to Edwin William John and Augusta Smith. In 1894 he began four years of studies at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where he worked under Henry Tonks and Frederick Brown. During his time at the Slade School, John also studied the works of the Old Masters at the National Gallery. After suffering a head injury while swimming at Pembrokeshire in 1897, the quality of John's artwork, as well as his appearance a...