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Whishaw’s wife, Jean Gibson, dies after a long illness. 1992: Elected to the Royal West of England Academy. 1994: Featured on Channel 4 News, in a story about his 1989 exhibition at Galerie in Faust. 1994-95
Anthony Whishaw RA (born 1930) is an English artist and member of the Royal Academy. He is also a member of The London Group. He was married to the sculptor Jean Gibson until her death in 1991.
Oct 16, 2019 · Considered to be "a slow artist for a fast-moving world", Anthony Whishaw RA is to celebrate his 90th year with a new book and Kickstarter campaign, starting this month, followed by an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in February.
Sep 28, 2021 · Anthony Whishaw (b.1930) Herbert Art Gallery & Museum. In London galleries he discovered artists such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque and a new, dynamic way of treating the human figure and manipulating pictorial space.
The iconography – a solitary Christ, without the companionship of thieves, without soldiers or spectators, seen almost in profile, dead or at the point of death - is rare, and Whishaw has handled it with fierce concentration, bravely and with compassion. It compels contemplation of the most Lenten kind, it is Christ scarified, stripped bare…
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May 30, 2020 · This month Anthony Whishaw celebrates his 90th birthday in his Chelsea home, where he has lived and worked since 1956. Born in Paddington, London in 1930, he spent the first nine years of his life living in Brazil, where his father worked for the British government.