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British artist

Eric Rimmington
Born1926
Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Died2024, age 98
Education
  • Southern Secondary School for Boys
  • Southern Art College
Alma materSlade School of Fine Art
Known for
Notable workThe Return of the Prodigal Son (1962).
Style
Spouses
  • Margaret McVey
  • Mary Michaels

Background

Eric Rimmington was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire. His father was naval engine room artificer Charlie Rimmington senior, who served in the Royal Navy in the First World War, and his mother was seamstress Mabel Bowman. He had an elder brother, Charlie Rimmington junior of the Royal Navy, who was mentioned in dispatches in the 1944 Birthday Honours. He was educated at Southern Secondary School for Boys and Southern Art College. However, before he could complete his studies, he was recruited into the military during the Second World War, serving in the Far East. After the war, he completed his studies, and earned a fine art diploma in 1952 at the Slade School of Fine Art.

Rimmington married Margaret McVey in 1947 and they had a daughter, but the marriage failed in the 1960s or 1970s. While working at Wolverhampton he formed a partnership with Mary Michaels, a history of art teacher at the same establishment, and they married in 1994.

Career

Rimmington was a still life artist, and a draughtsman who used graphite and pencil. Art critic William Packer said that he was, "one of our most distinguished exponents of still life".

While continuing with his own painting, Rimmington was employed as an art teacher. He taught at Scarborough College of Art between 1952 and 1958, and at Bradford College of Art from 1958 to 1966. He was a senior lecturer in art between 1966 and 1969 at Birmingham College of Art and Design. He was then hired at Wolverhampton Polytechnic as senior course tutor and principal lecturer between 1969 and 1982. Around 1982–1983, he taught for a year at the University of Wisconsin–Stout in the United States. Mary Michaels said tha, "Eric found an atmosphere refreshingly free of the prescriptive attitudes that dominated the British art world". He returned to Worcester and then Hackney, and proceeded to work as a still life artist.

Exhibitions

Over thirty years from the 1980s, Rimmington contributed to a large number of group exhibitions, and had thirty exhibitions of his own work. He exhibited at the Millinery Works, Islington, the Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames, and the Mercury Gallery, Cork Street, London. The 2012 Millinery Works exhibition featured forty paintings of the London Underground, created between 2006 and 2011..

Collections

Rimmington's works are held in a number of public collections, including the Gulbenkian Foundation, the Imperial War Museum and Bradford City Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Reading Museum and Art Gallery, University of Leeds, Scarborough Art Gallery and the ING Collection; Museum of London.

Notes

  1. Eric Rimmington (1926–2024). GRO index: Births Sep 1926 Rimmington Eric O. Bowman Portsmouth 2b 608.
  2. Charlie Rimmington senior (26 December 1889 – 1969). GRO index: Births Mar 1890 Rimmington Charlie Portsea 2b 509. Deaths Dec 1969 Rimmington Charlie 26 De 1889 Portsmouth 6b 1339.
  3. Mabel Bowman (c. 1888 – 1964) GRO index: Marriages Dec 1913 Rimmington Charlie and Bowman Mabel, Portsmouth 2b 953. Deaths Sep 1964 Rimmington Mabel 76 Portsmouth 6B 426.
  4. Charlie Rimmington junior (born 1914) GRO index: Births Dec 1914 Rimmington Charlie, mother Bowman, Paddington 1a 117.

References

  1. "The Return of the Prodigal Son Eric Rimmington (1926–2024)". artuk.org. Art UK. 1962. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  2. "Lives of the First World War: Charlie Rimmington". livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk. Imperial War Museum (IWM). Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  3. "Charlie Rimmington . Official Number: 271944 . Date of Birth: 26 December 1889. Ref. ADM 363/276/84". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. The National Archives. 1939. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  4. "Mentioned in Despatches". The London Gazette (Supplement). H.M. Government. 2 June 1944. pp. 2565–2652.
  5. ^ Michaels, Mary (8 December 2024). "Eric Rimmington obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  6. "Eric Rimmington 1926–2024". artuk.org. Art UK. 2024. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  7. "This exciting exhibition is the first opportunity to see four decades of still life paintings by the highly regarded British artist Eric Rimmington". artrabbit.com. Art Rabbit. November 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  8. "Eric Rimmington: Going Underground". Time Out. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  9. "Rimmington, Eric". radnorshire-fine-arts.co.uk. Radnorshire Fine Arts Ltd. Retrieved 9 December 2024.

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