Ivon Hitchens, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ivon Hitchens

British artist

Date of Birth: 03-Mar-1893

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 29-Aug-1979

Profession: painter

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Ivon Hitchens

  • Ivon Hitchens (3 March 1893 – 29 August 1979) was an English painter who started exhibiting during the 1920s.
  • He became part of the 'London Group' of artists and exhibited with them during the 1930s.
  • His house was bombed in 1940 during World War II, at which point he moved to a caravan on a patch of woodland near Petworth in West Sussex.
  • He worked there for the next forty years, gradually augmenting his caravan with a series of buildings.
  • He is particularly well known for panoramic landscape paintings created from blocks of colour.
  • There is a huge mural by him in the main hall of Cecil Sharp House.
  • His work was exhibited in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1956. Hitchens was the son of the artist Alfred Hitchens.
  • His son John Hitchens and grandson Simon Hitchens are both artists.

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