Henry Mundy (abstract painter) explained

Henry Mundy
Birth Date:	1919 1, df=yes
Birth Place:	Birkenhead, Wirral, Cheshire, England
Death Place:	Bude, Cornwall, England
Spouse:
Children:	2
Movement:	Abstract art
Works:	Cluster (1961)
Awards:	John Moores Painting Prize (1961)

Henry Mundy (13 January 1919 – 27 February 2019) was an English abstract painter and teacher.^[1] ^[2]

Born in Birkenhead, Cheshire Mundy was one of ten children and attended St Francis Xavier School and Laird School of Art (1933–37). Moving to London to study at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts (1946–50) alongside Anthony Eyton, Terry Frost, Andrew Forge and Gillian Ayres whom he would marry in 1951.

Taught at Saint Martin's School of Art (1966–82) and Bath School of Art and Design (1959–66).

Work

Art critic David Sylvester commented that Mundy's works 'relate to visual experience, to seeing in a space which is all around one, to seeing as one moves about in space'.^[3]

Selected exhibitions

Solo

Gallery One, London (1954)
Henry Mundy: Drawings, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (1958)

Group

Place, ICA (1959)
Situation, RBA Galleries (1960)
New Situation, New London Gallery (1961)

Awards

John Moores Painting Prize (1961)

Collections

Notes and References

Web site: 20 May 2019 . Henry Mundy, abstract painter who took a long break from the art scene and destroyed much of his own work – obituary . https://web.archive.org/web/20240221114313/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/05/20/henry-mundy-abstract-painter-took-long-break-art-scene-destroyed/ . 21 Feb 2024 . The Daily Telegraph.
Web site: Henry Mundy Artist Royal Academy of Arts . https://web.archive.org/web/20240221124636/https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/henry-mundy . 21 Feb 2024 . Royal Academy of Arts.
Web site: September 2004 . 'Untitled', Henry Mundy, 1964 Tate . https://web.archive.org/web/20220415173155/https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/mundy-untitled-p04635 . 15 Apr 2022 . Tate.
Web site: Henry Mundy Artists Collection British Council – Visual Arts . https://web.archive.org/web/20220816081302/http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/collection/artists/mundy-henry-1919 . 16 Aug 2022 . British Council.
Web site: Henry Mundy – English, born 1919 Brooklyn Museum . https://web.archive.org/web/20230212115744/https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/artists/4137/objects . 12 Feb 2023 . Brooklyn Museum.
Web site: Henry Mundy · SFMOMA . https://web.archive.org/web/20240221125843/https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Henry_Mundy/ . 21 Feb 2024 . San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Web site: Henry Mundy 1919–2019 Tate . https://web.archive.org/web/20220118172128/https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/henry-mundy-1679 . 18 Jan 2022 . Tate.