Oliver kilbourn biography

oliver kilbourn biography

Oliver Kilbourn - Ashington Group

    Oliver Percival Kilbourn (6 October – April ) was a British coal miner, painter, and founding member of the Ashington Group.

End of Shift, 1941 - Oliver Kilbourn -

    Oliver Percival Kilbourn (6 October 1904 – April 1993) was a British coal miner, painter, and founding member of the Ashington Group.
Oliver Percival Kilbourn (6 October 1904 – April 1993) was a.
The Group’s first show was at the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, in 1936, in which Kilbourn participated, and his pictures were in all subsequent exhibitions in Britain and overseas.
Mining and landscape painter and illustrator, born in Ashington, Northumberland.
A damn good miner: Oliver Kilbourn's 'My Life as a Pitman ...

Lowse, End of Shift, 1975 - Oliver Kilbourn -

    Mining and landscape painter and illustrator, born in Ashington, Northumberland.

Oliver Percival Kilbourn - Museums Northumberland

    Among the earliest members of the Ashington Group, he was consistently among its most prolific painters, producing a vast body of artworks in various mediums which formed a near-complete record of working life and leisure in Ashington.

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  • Oliver Percival Kilbourn was a British coal miner, painter, and founding member of the Ashington Group.

    • Oliver Kilbourn: My Life as a Pitman - The QT

  • Among the earliest members of the Ashington Group, he was consistently among its most prolific painters, producing a vast body of artworks in various mediums which formed a near-complete record of working life and leisure in Ashington.

    • Kilbourn, Oliver, 1904–1993 - Art UK

  • The extraordinary story of The Ashington Group of artists became world-famous through Lee Hall's play 'The Pitmen Painters', and Oliver Kilbourn the group's best-known member.

    • Oliver Milburn - Wikipedia

  • Oliver Kilbourn, born October 1904, began working in the mines three days after his 13th birthday.

    • Oliver Kilbourn

    Oliver Kilbourn

    Born

    Oliver Percival Kilbourn


    1904

    Ashington, Northumberland

    Died1993
    NationalityBritish
    EducationWorkers' Educational Association Workers' Educational Association
    Ashington Miners' Union
    Known forCoal mining
    Painting
    Notable workMy Life as a Pitman
    MovementModern art
    Figurative painting

    Oliver Percival Kilbourn (6 October 1904 – April 1993) was a British coal miner, painter, and founding member of the Ashington Group.

    Widely considered to be the group's best-known artist, Kilbourn used the experiences that he had gained while working in the mines and represented them in his art work. His main contribution to the Ashington Group was his focus on Modern art.[1]

    Early life and family

    Kilbourn was born in 75 Chestnut Street, Ashington, and was the fifth child of James Smith Kilbourn and Mary Hannah Chilton. After attending elementary school, he began working as a miner at the Du