British painter, teacher, and writer, Frederick Gore CBE RA was born in Richmond, Surrey, and was the son of the artist Spencer Gore. He studied at Trinity College and Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford, 1932-4, and finally at Westminster School of Art and Slade School of Fine Art, 1934-7. In the last year of his studies he had his first one man show at the Redfern Gallery, followed by a series there after World War II.
In 1938 he travelled to Greece, showing the resulting work in Paris. Greece, Majorca and France were favourite landscape subjects for Gore, whose rich palette had more in common with the French tradition as opposed to that of the English. Gore taught at Westminster, Epsom and Chelsea Schools of Art and was head of painting department at St Martin's School of Art between the years of 1951 and 1979.
He was elected RA in 1973 and was chairman of its exhibition committee from 1976 to 1987. His publications included Abstract Art, 1956; Painting: Some Basic Principles, 1965; and Piero della Francesca's 'The Baptism', 1969; plus many RA catalogue introductions. In 1979 he had retrospectives at Gainsborough's House in Sudbury and Bury St. Edmund's Art Gallery, as well as an important show at the RA in 1989. Gore was awarded the CBE in 1988.
The work of Frederick Gore is represented in the public collections of Southampton City Art Gallery; Plymouth Art Gallery; Leicester County Council; Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery; the Contemporary Art Society; Reading Museum; London Transport Museum; the Royal Academy of Arts; The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; The Government Art Collection; Arts Council of Great Britain; Manchester Art Gallery; the Jerwood Collection; Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Wirral: Russell Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth and Tate Britain, London.
Flowers from ProvenceFrederick Gore CBE RA- The Luberon from above LourmarinFrederick Gore CBE RA
- Late Evening, looking towards Crau from Les Baux de Provence, 1992Frederick Gore CBE RA
- Lavender Field in the Luberon, near Buoux, 1991Frederick Gore CBE RA
- Beach by the Villa Delphini, Paxos, 1989Frederick Gore CBE RA
- Methama and the Distant Pelopennese from Sfendouri, 1989Frederick Gore CBE RA
- Bouquet de Fleur, 1987Frederick Gore CBE RA
- Elm Park Gardens, 1981Frederick Gore CBE RA
- Le Petit Luberon from Bonnieux, 1975Frederick Gore CBE RA
- Evening, Majorca, 1962Frederick Gore CBE RA
- Olive Trees, Les Baux, 1954Frederick Gore CBE RA
- Red Landscape, Les Baux, 1951Frederick Gore CBE RA
- The Broad Walk, Regent’s Park, 1949Frederick Gore CBE RA
- A Farm and a Vineyard under the LuberonFrederick Gore CBE RA
- Landscape Near Fornalutx, MajorcaFrederick Gore CBE RA
- Landscape, Les Baux de ProvenceFrederick Gore CBE RA
- Mediterranean LandscapeFrederick Gore CBE RA
- November, Elm Park GardensFrederick Gore CBE RA
- Olive Grove, MajorcaFrederick Gore CBE RA
- Olive Trees at Les BauxFrederick Gore CBE RA
- Olive Trees at Les BauxFrederick Gore CBE RA
- Olive Trees at Les Baux IIFrederick Gore CBE RA
- Orange Grove, Fornalutz, MajorcaFrederick Gore CBE RA
- Poppies, ProvenceFrederick Gore CBE RA
- Roches d’entre, Les Baux, ProvenceFrederick Gore CBE RA
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