Gordon House - Tin Pan Valley

GORDON HOUSE etchings from his 1998 Tin-pan Valley suite

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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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Yonder

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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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