IRVIN, ALBERT (British, b.1922)

Irvin's large-scale abstract paintings are amongst the most compelling and distinctive produced in Britain today.
He studied at Northampton School of Art and after five years in the Royal Air Force he studied at Goldsmith’s College School of Art, where he took a teaching post between 1962-83.
His first one-man show was held in 1960 at the 57 Gallery, Edinburgh. From 1961 he held a series of shows at the New Art Centre, London and at the Serpentine Gallery, London.
In 1968 he won an Arts Council Travel Award to America, seven years later gaining an Arts Council Major Award.

Public collections include:
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Stuyvesant Collection, Amsterdam
Tate, London
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Bibliography
P.MOORHOUSE, Albert Irvin, Life to painting, London, 1998