BENONI LAKE - Terrence McCaw
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Terence McCaw
SOUTH AFRICAN (1913 - 1978)
BENONI LAKE
signed and dated 53
oil on canvass laid down on board
size : 40 x 50 cm
More on artist:
Terence McCaw (1913 – 1978) McCaw and Walter Battiss met and became close friends while studying together, with Battiss declaring him “without doubt the best painter at the school.” They maintained a life-long friendship and went on several painting trips together. Determined to earn his living as a professional artist, he worked in Cape Town for a year after his studies before returning to Johannesburg to work as a commercial artist. One can only guess that this was a compromise brought on by the harsh reality of trying to earn a living from his art while he was yet to establish a reputation. In 1935, his extremely skilled draftsmanship saw him taking first prize in a South African Railways poster competition. Thereafter he was awarded a travel bursary to study art abroad. He furthered his training in London at Heatherleys and the Central School of Art. While in London he exhibited with the London Group and Royal Watercolour Society. His talent and skill was such that while still a student he had paintings hung in the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Royal British Association, the Royal Portrait Society and at Agnews of Bond Street. He then spent six months traveling and painting in Spain and Morocco before returning to South Africa in 1937, whereafter he returned once again to Cape Town. was awarded a scholarship to study at the Witwatersrand Technical Art School, where he was enrolled from 1930 to 1933 and studied under Sydney Carter and Emily Fern – the influence of Carter on his work endured throughout his artistic career.
(source: Stephan Welz & Co. Press release 14 May 2009)
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