Peter Lanyon 1918-1964 (BAA 1952-1957) Born in St Ives, Cornwall. 1936 studied with Borlase Smart. 1936-37 Penzance School of Art. 1938 spent four months Euston Road School. Met Gabo, Hepworth and Nicholson the following year and received lessons from Nicholson. 1940-45 served RAF. 1946 founder member Crypt Group. 1947 one-man exhibition Downing’s Bookshop. St Ives. 1949 founder member Penwith Society, (resigned following year). 1949 one-man exhibition Lefevre Gallery; 1951 Sixty Paintings for ‘51 (Arts Council); 1952 first of several one-man exhibitions Gimpel Fils. Described himself as a landscape painter. 1953 Italian Government Scholarship. Began teaching BAA, winter terms (for account of teaching see his article ‘The Nature of Painting’, Athene, April 1957). 1955 exhibited at Willis and The Octagon Galleries, Bath with BAA colleagues. 1957 visited USA, met Rothko and Motherwell; first of several exhibitions Catherine Viviane Gallery, New York. 1955-60 co-ran St Peter’s Loft Art School, St lves with William Redgrave. 1959 took up gliding. 1960 executed mural Liverpool University, another for Stanley Seeger. New Jersey, 1962 and Birmingham University, completed 1963. 1963 British Painting in the Sixties Tate Gallery. 1964 died following gliding accident. Several exhibitions since his death including 1968 Tate Gallery Retrospective (touring exhibition); 1978 Whitworth Gallery. Manchester (touring exhibition); included in St lves 1939-64, Tate Gallery, 1985; British Art in the 20th Century, Royal Academy of Arts, 1987.