Painter.

Biography

1895 Born in Hackney

1909 Attended evening classes at St. Martin's School of Art, London

1910-13 Studied on a scholarship to the Slade School of Fine Art, London

1913 Traveled in France and Italy for several months and then joined Roger Fry's Omega Workshops

1914 Met Wyndham Lewis, left Omega and joined the circle of Lewis, Edward Wadsworth, Frederick Etchells, and Cuthbert Hamilton

1916-18 Served with the Royal Field Artillery in France

1918 Returned to England as official war artist

1920 Met T.E. Lawrence

1923 Contributed drawings to T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom

1935-8 Read for a degree in Physics at University College, London

1939 Moved to Oxford with outbreak of war and lived there until 1945, teaching one day at week at Oxford Technical School

1940 Became an official war artist for the Ministry of Information

1956 Published the Vortex Pamphlets in response to Wyndham Lewis' exhibition at Tate Gallery, London

1958 Elected an Associate of the Royal Academy

1966 Elected Royal Academician

1980 Died in London

Bibliography

1957 Roberts, William Roberts, Some Early Abstract and Cubist Work

1960 Roberts, Paintings 1917-1958 by William Roberts ARA

1964 Roberts, William Roberts ARA, Paintings and Drawings 1909-1964

1976 Roberts, Paintings and Drawings by William Roberts RA

1982 William Roberts: Early Years

1984 William Roberts. An Artist and His Family Exhibition catalogue for the National Portrait Gallery, London

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1915 Exhibited with the Vorticists at the Vorticists' Exhibition in London, also joining the London Group

1920 Exhibited with Wyndham Lewis' Group X

1923 First solo exhibition at the Chenil Gallery, London

1927-34 Exhibited for the London Artists' Association

1929 Cooling Galleries, London

1931 Cooling Galleries, London

1935 Lefevre Gallery, London

1938 Lefevre Gallery, London

1942 Redfern Gallery, London

1945 Leicester Galleries, London

Leicester Galleries, London

1949 Leicester Galleries, London

1958 Leicester Galleries, London

1965 Tate Gallery, London, a major retrospective organized by the Arts Council

1969-76 Series of one-man exhibitions (d'Offay Couper, 1969; Hamet & Exeter, 1971; Hamet, 1973; Parkin, 1976)

1983 Retrospective at Reading Museum and Art Gallery

1990 William Roberts: Paintings & Drawings, Gillian Jason Gallery, London

1991 Forty Self Portraits, Gillian Jason Gallery, London

1992 Humour & Satire Gillian Jason Gallery, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

1945 Exhibited with London Group at Royal Academy

1948 Began to exhibit at Royal Academy and continued to do so every year until his death

Collections

In the collections of Tate Gallery, London; London Museum; and most major museum collections in the UK

Public commissions

1922 Poster for the entrance to the Wembley Exhibition, commissioned by the Underground Railway Co.