Geoffrey Arthur Tibble - Artist Info

About Geoffrey Arthur Tibble

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    Geoffrey Arthur Tibble (27 February 1909[1] – 15 December 1952) was an English artist prominent in the Objective Abstraction* movement.

    Tibble was born in 1909 in Reading, Berkshire, and was educated at the Reading University School of Art. At age 18, he entered the Slade School of Art*, London in 1927 under Henry Tonks, where he was a contemporary of William Coldstream.

    Tibble was a significant figure in the short-lived Objective Abstraction movement. In 1934, Tibble exhibited abstract works at the Exhibition of Objective Abstractions at the Zwemmer Gallery, London (works described as "vortices in pigment, suggesting rather than representing something in nature") He later destroyed or overpainted most of the works from this a...

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