Anthony Earnshaw, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Anthony Earnshaw

British artist

Date of Birth: 09-Oct-1924

Date of Death: 17-Aug-2001

Profession: artist, illustrator, painter, sculptor, novelist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Anthony Earnshaw

  • Anthony Earnshaw (9 October 1924 – 17 August 2001) was an English anarchist, artist, author and illustrator. Earnshaw was born in Ilkley, West Yorkshire.
  • His father, a watchmaker and jeweller, died before he was born.
  • His mother ran the family shop until it went bankrupt in 1930, when they moved first to Redcar and then to Leeds.
  • Earnshaw attended Harehills School in Leeds until the age of 14. He worked as an engineering fitter, and later as a lathe turner and a crane driver, while educating himself at Leeds City Library.
  • At 20 he became interested in Surrealism and, with his lifelong friend Eric Thacker, devised surreal activities such as boarding and alighting from trains at random.
  • In the early 1960s he met several other like-minded people, including Patrick Hughes, Ian Breakwell and Glen Baxter.
  • Hughes persuaded Earnshaw to hold a retrospective at the Leeds Institute in 1966, which was followed by an exhibition in Exeter, The Enchanted Domain, to which he was invited by John Lyle. He began teaching part-time, first at the Harrogate School of Art, then at Bradford Art School, before leaving engineering altogether in 1972 to take up a fellowship at Leeds Polytechnic.
  • He left teaching in 1985 to concentrate on art. In 1968 Earnshaw collaborated with Thacker on an illustrated novel, Musrum, which was not commercially successful, but has become a cult classic.
  • The book is a fantasy, peppered with aphorisms ("Sudden prayers make God jump"), and tells the story of the title character's kingdom and of his battle with the nefarious Weedking.
  • It was followed in 1971 by a sequel, Wintersol, about the secret criminal nature of Father Christmas.
  • Both books were praised for their elegant writing, wit and wordplay, and especially for their sheer invention.Later publications included a cartoon in the Times Educational Supplement, a wheeled bird named Wokker, and books of aphorisms, the largest being Flick Knives and Forks in 1982.
  • In the 1980s and 1990s Earnshaw began making art boxes, further exemplifying his loyalty to Surrealism. Earnshaw died in 2001.
  • He was survived by his second wife, Gail, and by two daughters from his first marriage.

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