Edward Piper
Edward Blake Christmas Piper (1938–1990) was an English painter.
Also recorded as Edward Blake Christmas Piper
Edward Piper
- Born
- 1938
- Died
- 1990
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- painter
- Education
- Slade School of Fine Art · Bath School of Art and Design
- Languages
- English
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Edward Blake Christmas Piper (1938–1990) was an English painter.
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Edward Piper was the eldest son of the artist John Piper and his wife Myfanwy. He was educated at Lancing College and later studied under Howard Hodgkin at the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham and later at the Slade School of Art in London. Piper produced photographs for the Shell County Guides and also undertook graphic design commissions to make a living. He continued on to study figurative art and painting female nudes; he later painted landscapes, in Corsica, Malta, France, Italy and Spain. A number of Piper's lithographs and screenprints are to be found in the Tate Gallery collection. Piper's son Luke Piper is also a painter and his younger son Henry Piper is a sculptor. Edward Piper died in June 1990 of cancer at the age of 51.
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1938
Edward Piper born.
1990
Edward Piper died.
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• Clayton, Sylvia, Edward Piper. David & Charles, 1991.. • Perry, Jenny, Edward Piper.
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