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Article: Obituary.(COMMENT)(Peter Townsend)(Obituary)
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- Art Monthly
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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Peter Townsend 1919-2006
Peter Townsend who died on July 21 was the founding editor of Art Monthly and Art Monthly Australia.
He was the fourth of five siblings: William, Robert, Janet and Margaret. They grew up near Canterbury where Peter went to the King's School. The family were Quakers which produced a streak of austerity in Peter: he recalled that not much red meat was eaten and maintained a preference for rather uncomfortable upright chairs. Their father Lewis Townsend was a dentist, a 'man of letters manque, a poet and the author of a successful biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes', as William, the painter and diarist wrote. Peter greatly ...