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Peter Lanyon’s Gliding Paintings
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Peter Lanyon
Exhibition
Soaring Flight. Peter Lanyon’s Gliding Paintings
15 Oct 2015 – 17 Jan 2016
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- Somerset House, Strand
- London
- WC2R 0RN
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Charing Cross/Temple/Holborn
- Waterloo/Charing Cross
Event map
This major exhibition explores a remarkable and unprecedented series of paintings by Peter Lanyon, one of Britain’s most important and original Post-War artists.
About
Lanyon (1918-64) sought to create a new vision of landscape painting for the modern era that could express both sensory experience and a profound understanding of our fragile existence within the world. During the 1950s, he produced radical, near-abstract paintings of the tough coastal landscape of his native West Cornwall inspired by his experience of gliding, this series will be showcased in a major retrospective at The Courtauld this autumn.
