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Article: Kitchen sink drama - search for an artist; THE GO-BETWEEN A journalist is trying to track down a painter, says Ros s Reyburn.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
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- February 28, 1998
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In the 1950s, Patrick Venton was a promising young artist from Birmingham with a painting shown in the first John Moores Liverpool Exhibition. But where is he today?
Freelance journalist David Buckman is listing Venton in his dictionary of post-World War II artists being published this September. But he has spent more than four months trying to find out what happened to Venton without success.
He first came across his work last October when he visited the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and saw his painting, Still-Life: Kitchen Sink displayed in an upstairs ...