David Jones

Painting, Author

1895 – 1974

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Who was David Jones?

David Jones CH was both a painter and one of the first-generation British modernist poets. As a painter he worked chiefly in watercolour, painting portraits and animal, landscape, legendary and religious subjects. He was also a wood-engraver and designer of inscriptions. As a writer he was considered by T. S. Eliot to be of major importance, and his The Anathemata was considered by W. H. Auden to be the best long poem written in English in the twentieth century. His Christian beliefs and Welsh heritage helped form his work.

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Born
Nov 1, 1895
Brockley
Religion
  • Catholicism
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Education
  • Camberwell College of Arts
  • Westminster School of Art
Lived in
  • Brockley
Died
Oct 28, 1974
Middlesex

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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