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Article: OBITUARY : John Christopherson
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 2, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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John Christopherson was a painter of small dreamlike townscapes
that combine an almost naive intensity with great sophistication.
He was also a knowledgeable, modest collector and connoisseur of
antiquities, tribal objects and post-war art.
Born in Blackheath, London in 1921, Christopherson began his
working life at Shell-Mex House in 1938, when Jack Beddington, the
director of the publicity department, was pioneering the use of
modern art in advertising. After a long wartime illness
Christopherson worked at County Hall in London, choosing for his
office wall a print of Paul Nash's Wood on The Downs; Nash's
primeval landscapes and magical moons were later to have a lasting
influence on ...
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