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A BUY E R’ S GUIDE ALBERT WAINWRIGHT
Albert Wainwright was born in 1898 in Castleford, Wakefield. The youngest of three children, he had a Methodist upbringing and was expected by his father to follow in his footsteps and become an engineer. It was thanks to the help of his perceptive art teacher at Castleford Secondary school, Alice Gostick, who spotted and nurtured Wainwright’s artistic talents that Albert’s father allowed him to leave the engineering apprenticeship that he hated and attend Leeds School of Art in 1914.
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Whilst at Leeds School of Art, Wainwright drew on a wide range of influences, including the work of Aubrey Beardsley and Léon Bakst, together with the brave new wave of European art created by the Viennese Secessionist art group. The work of Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt captivated and inspired the young Wainwright who was drawn to their exaggerated forms, fluid use of line and dynamic use of colour and pattern within the works.
After serving in the Royal Flying Corps, Wainwright left military service to re-join his family who now lived near Pontefract. Here he transformed a room of the family home into a studio where he could continue his work as an artist and designer. Around this time he began to attend Saturday morning pottery painting sessions at the local Grammar School with Miss Gostick, his former art teacher, along with his sisters Hilda and Maud. At the same classes was the great sculptor Henry Moore, also a former pupil of Miss Gostick’s. Moore was at this time a close personal friend of Wainwright’s, exchanging many beautifully illustrated letters to each other over their time in service during WW1, however for some unknown reason their friendship abruptly ended around 1920.
In 1920 Wainwright received his first one-man exhibition at Leeds City Art Gallery, aged just 22. The show was very well received and drew the attention and support of Sir Michael Sadler, Vice Chancellor of Leeds University and notable art collector and Frank Rutter, the influential art critic and curator. It also led to Wainwright being represented by the Goupil Gallery in London where they held solo shows of his work in 1921 and 1922. His art nouveau-inspired watercolours received great praise in the Sunday Times, who lauded his ‘great ability in decorative design’.
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