Dennis Hawkins
"Sphinx"
1968
Silkscreen on paper
30.75"x22.25"
Signed in ink lower right
Excellent Condition - Minor wear consistent with age and history
Dennis Hawkins (1925-2001) was a well-known abstract painter and printmaker. He studied at Ruskin School, Oxford 1947-49, then at the Slade School, London 1949-52. Dennis Hawkins exhibited extensively, including at the Redfern Gallery, Zwemmer Gallery, Gimpel Fils, and with the London Group. He was a founder member of the Printmakers Council and Midland Group of Artists, and also showed at International Print Biennales in Tokyo and Florence. He is represented in several public collections at home and abroad, including the Victoria Museum & Gallery in Liverpool, Oxford Brookes University and Manchester Art Gallery. He taught at Repton School for some years, becoming Director of Art, and lived in Derbyshire.
b. 1925 in England. Studied at the Slade School of Art. One-man exhibitions at the Midland Group, Nottingham (1955); New Vision Centre, London and A.I.A. Gallery (1958); Zwemmer Gallery (1962 & 64); King Street Gallery, Cambridge (1965).
A painter, sculptor and printmaker. Hawkins studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford, 1947-49, then at the Slade School of Fine Art, 1949-52, where his teachers included William Coldstream and Graham Sutherland. From the 1950s he exhibited widely in leading London Galleries including Gimpel Fils, Artists’ International Association, London Group, Redfern Gallery and the New Vision Centre. His one-man exhibitions included two at the Zwemmer Gallery, London (1962 & 1964.) He also took part in international Print Biennales in Tokyo and Florence. The Arts Council; Victoria & Albert Museum; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Birmingham City Gallery and numerous other City Art Galleries hold his work, as does the Seattle Museum of Modern Art and other overseas galleries.
