Article: OBITUARY : John Christopherson

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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