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Gordon House 1932-2004
The Tate Gallery holds over 100 of his prints. His work is held in the collections of the Arts Council, British Council, V&A, Moma New York, as well as in many other museum and public collections. House’s skills as a designer were so great that he was constantly in demand, leaving little time to attend to the promotion of his art. We are excited to have re-discovered him.
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Accessory
The Tin-pan Valley Suite 1998
Gordon House was born in Pontardawe,
for the Tate, the Arts Council and many Cork
South Wales, which had, in the early part
Street galleries. From 1961 onwards he was
of the 20th century, become an established
able to pursue his own artistic work,
thriving steel town, black with many smoking
teaching part-time at the Central School of
chimneys. House called the area Tin-pan
Art, St Albans and Hornsey Schools of Art.
Valley, giving the name to this major suite of coloured etchings and to his book of
He participated in the seminal Situation
memoirs.
British Painting exhibition at the RBA Galleries (1960) which required that all the
House studied at Luton and St. Albans
works were to be large scale and abstract.
Schools of Art from 1947. During the 1950s
House also exhibited at the New London
he worked for an advertising agency, in
Situation show the following year and
various fields of design. He was a designer
continued to be represented in important
for ICI from 1952 to ‘59 and from 1959 to
exhibitions until The Sixties Art Scene in
‘61 for the Kynoch Press. He also worked
London (1993).
Tin-pan Valley Suite, coloured etchings, ed 30, 39 x 39 cm, £475 each
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Chalice
As a designer, his client base was very
The Tate Gallery holds more than 100 of his
diverse including leading contemporary
prints and his work is also represented in
London galleries, the Beatles, the Rolling
many important public collections including
Stones and the Ashmolean Gallery, Oxford.
the Arts Council, the British Council, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Museum
The artist Sir Peter Blake, a friend for 50
of Modern Art in New York.
years, who worked with House on several important commissions including the LP
In 2004 House died and the same year his
cover for Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Band,
autobiographical memoir Tin-pan Valley
wrote:
was published posthumously. The following
...there were very few artists who were
year a major retrospective celebrating
equally comfortable and talented at being
House’s life and achievement was held at
both a painter and a graphic designer, and
the Millinery Works.
Gordon House was one such.
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The Tin-pan Valley Suite Ten images drawn direct, open bite through a wax ground over pre-worked liquid etched plates in staged sequences prior to final hard-ground line etch on pierced and flanged zinc plates 39 x 39 cm by Gordon House 1998. Editioned on Velin Arches 100% cotton white 300gsm paper size 59.7 x 55.9 cm. Each print is signed, numbered and titled by the artist in an edition of 30 with 5 artist’s proofs, and bears the artist’s chop mark. A copy of the justification page (see right) accompanies each etching.
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Gordon House was a driven man, a workaholic who produced unique and unmistakable images, apparently abstract, but leaning heavily on visual sources. David Buckman
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