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1914 · oil paint
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John S. Currie
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25
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67
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5
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- Birth yearWikidata· 92%
- Death yearWikidata· 92%
- Primary mediumWikidata· 92%
- BiographyWikipedia· 88%
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- TateTier 3 · Scraped/inferred95%
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John Currie was an English painter and murderer. Born in Staffordshire, the illegitimate son of an Ulster-Scottish father who was a 'navvy' working on the railways and an English mother, he worked as an artist in the Potteries, painting ceramics, before going to the Royal College of Art in 1905, and later becoming Master of Life Painting at Bristol. He married in 1907. In the summer of 1910 he briefly attended the Slade School of Art, where he joined the 'Neo-Primitive' group that included fellow Slade students Mark Gertler, C.R.W. Nevinson, Edward Wadsworth, Stanley Spencer and Adrian Allinson. The contemporary art collector Michael Sadleir described him as 'blazing with genius'; others likened him to a character in a Dostoevsky novel.
Source: Tate · Trust score: 95% · Updated 1mo ago
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