Leslie Hurry
Painting, Visual Artist
1909 – 1978
Who was Leslie Hurry?
Leslie George Hurry was a British artist and set designer for ballet, theatre and opera.
The son of A. G. Hurry, a funeral director in St John's Wood, he was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School. Resisting pressure to join the family business, he attended St. John's Wood Art School and the Royal Academy Schools. Leaving the Royal Academy School of Painting in 1931, before the completion of his five-year scholarship, his first commission was from a brewing firm to decorate a chain of saloon bars with landscape murals.
In the second half of the 1930s he wandered Britain and Ireland painting landscapes. Depressed with his work and seeking inspiration to develop a personal style, he moved to Brittany then Paris, but was forced to return to Britain due to health problems.
In 1939, found unfit for military service and disturbed by the war, he isolated himself in his secluded cottage at Thaxted, Essex. At this time he was befriended by Grace Sholto Douglas, an elderly patron of arts who died in 1942. In 1940–41 he produced two books of intricate automatic drawings that were exhibited at the Redfern Gallery, leading to his acclaim as an "ultra-surrealist".
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- Born
- Feb 10, 1909
London - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- Royal Academy of Arts
- Died
- Nov 20, 1978
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on July 23, 2013
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