Augustus John (124 page)

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Authors: Michael Holroyd

Appendix Seven

A
UGUSTUS
J
OHN
: C
HRONOLOGY AND
I
TINERARY

1878

4 January, born at Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales.

1884

August, mother dies. Family move from Haverfordwest to Tenby.

1894–8

Slade School of Fine Art, London.

1897

Bathing accident.

1898

‘Moses and the Brazen Serpent’ wins the Summer Composition Prize. Visits Holland with Ambrose McEvoy.

1899

First one-man show at Carfax Gallery. Makes £30 and goes to Vattetot-sur-Mer with William Rothenstein, William Orpen, Charles Conder. Meets Oscar Wilde in Paris. Begins exhibiting at New English Art Club.

1900

Goes to Swanage with Conder. ‘Walpurgis Night’. Visits Le Puy-en-Velay with the Rothensteins and Michel Salaman. Painted by Orpen.

1901

12 January, marries Ida Nettleship. Moves into 18 Fitzroy Street, London.

1901–2

Art instructor at Liverpool. Meets John Sampson and the Dowdalls. Etchings.

1902

6 January, David born.

1903

Elected to NEAC.

January, meets Dorothy McNeill in London. March, Carfax Gallery: ‘Paintings [3], Pastels [8], Drawings [21] and Etchings [13] by Augustus E. John’; ‘Paintings [3] by Gwen John’.

22 March, Caspar born.

August, Gwen and Dorelia’s ‘walk to Rome’, via Toulouse. Augustus and Ida move to Elm House, Matching Green, Essex.

1903–7

Involved with Orpen and Knewstub in Chelsea Art School, Rossetti Studios.

1904

Gwen and Dorelia arrive in Paris. Dorelia elopes to Bruges.

August, Dorelia returns and lives at Elm House.

Augustus elected to membership of the Society of Twelve.

23 October, Ida’s Robin born.

1905

April–May, on Dartmoor. Dorelia’s Pyramus born.

September, emigration to rue Monsieur-le-Prince, Paris.

November, Chenil Gallery: ‘Drawings by Aug. E. John [42] and William Orpen [22]’.

27 November, Ida’s Edwin born.

1906

January, move to 77 rue Dareau, Paris.

May, Chenil Gallery: Eighty-Two Etchings. First drawings of Alick Schepeler.

August, at Ste-Honorine-des-Perthes with Wyndham Lewis. Dorelia’s Romilly born.

November, Dorelia detaches herself and moves to 48 rue du Château.

1907

February, Augustus and Ida move to 3 Cour de Rohan.

9 March, Ida’s Henry born.

14 March, Ida dies.

Summer at Equihen with Dorelia.

September, visits Lady Gregory at Coole, Ireland. Paints W. B. Yeats. Moves to 8 Fitzroy Street, London.

November, Carfax Gallery. Eighty-one drawings.

1908

Gets to know Lady Ottoline Morrell. Starts off for Spain, via Paris.

July–September, at Dielette with Dorelia and children. Visited by Mrs Nettleship.

Autumn, moves into 153 Church Street with Dorelia and families.

1909

January, paints William Nicholson. Takes studio at 181a King’s Road.

July, caravans to Cambridge. Paints Jane Harrison. August, paints ‘His Worship the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, and Smith’.

Meets John Quinn in London.

September, agrees to decorate Hugh Lane’s house.

1910

January–September, travels, at Quinn’s expense, to Italy and Provence. Visits Frank Harris at Nice.

April, Villa Ste-Anne, Martigues.

October, ‘The Smiling Woman’ becomes the first purchase of the Contemporary Art Society (£225) and is later (1917) given to the Tate Gallery.

November–December, Chenil Gallery: ‘Provençal Studies [48] and Other Works [35 drawings]’. Begins working with J. D. Innes.

1911

Elected to the Camden Town Group.

May, rents cottage with Innes in North Wales.

July, paints Kuno Meyer in Liverpool.

August, moves to Alderney Manor.

September, in France with Quinn.

October, in Wales.

December, Chenil Gallery: Paintings, Drawings and Etchings.

1912

March, Pyramus dies. Poppet is born.

Summer, west coast of Ireland with Francis Macnamara and Oliver St John Gogarty.

September, stays at Chirk Castle with the Howard de Waldens.

1913

January, in South of France with Innes.

February, Armory Show, New York (23 paintings, 14 drawings).

Spring, Madam Strindberg’s cabaret club opens.

July, North Wales with Holbrooke and Sime.

August, visits Modigliani in Paris.

September, North Wales.

November, Goupil Gallery: Fifteen Panels.

1914

February, elected President of the National Portrait Society. In Cornwall with Laura Knight and others.

April, Crab Tree Club opens.

May, Cardiganshire. Gives up studio at 181a King’s Road, moves into 28 Mallord Street.

June, one week in Boulogne.

August, Eilean Shona, Archarcle, Argyllshire. Last visits to Innes at Brighton and Swanley in Kent before his death.

October–November, drilling with Wadsworth in the courtyard of the Royal Academy.

December, sees Gwen John in Paris. Fails to persuade her to return to England.

1915

March, Vivien born.

May, Hugh Lane drowned in
Lusitania.

June, at Coole. Paints three portraits of Bernard Shaw.

October, Aran Islands and Galway.

1916

February, Chenil Gallery: Paintings (21) and Drawings (41). Portrait of Lloyd George.

May, Chenil Gallery: ‘Etchings by Augustus E. John’.

July, goes to Herbert Barker for knee operation.

August, rejected for military service. ‘Galway’ shown at Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Burlington House.

Starts experiments in lithography. Bust by Jacob Epstein.

1917

20 March, Monster Matinée at Chelsea Palace Theatre.

27 April, meets Lady Cynthia Asquith.

August, portrait of Oliver St John Gogarty.

9 October, begins portrait of Lady Cynthia Asquith (‘Lady in Black’).

November–February (1918), Alpine Club: pictures and decorations (67 exhibits).

December, advances to Aubigny as a Canadian Army major.

1918

March, retires from France after knocking out Captain Wright.

May, starts Canadian cartoon (National Gallery of Canada) and ‘Fraternity’ (Imperial War Museum, London).

8–28 August, represented at ‘Englische Moderne Malerei’, an exhibition organized by the Contemporary Arts Society at the Kunsthaus, Zürich.

1919

February–May, in Paris as official war artist. Paints Marchesa Casati and Duchess of Gramont. First drawing of T. E. Lawrence.

March, Chenil Gallery: 125 etchings.

September, at Deauville with Lloyd George.

1920

Augustus John
by Charles Marriott published by John Lane in the ‘Masters of Modern Art’ series. Elected Fellow of University College, London.

March, Alpine Club: War, Peace Conference and Other Portraits (39 exhibits).

April, Sister Carline Hospital. Operation on nose.

May, Rouen and Dieppe.

October, rumpus over Lord Leverhulme’s decapitated portrait.

Campbell Dodgson’s
Catalogue of Etchings by A. E. John
published.

1921

22 April, elected Associate of the Royal Academy. Begins painting of Mme Suggia.

June, portrait of Herbert Barker.

1922

March, the Sculptors’ Gallery, New York: works by Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska, Innes, Augustus John and Wyndham Lewis from Quinn Collection (7 paintings, 7 drawings).

April, Paris.

May, arrives in Spain.

1923

March, Alpine Club Gallery: Paintings and Drawings. First showing of ‘Mme Suggia’.

28 March–23 June, United States.

June, Beaux Arts Gallery: paintings (29).

Augustus John
by A.B. [Anthony Bertram] published by Benn.

21 September, meets Thomas Hardy at Kingston Maurward.

October, completes portrait of Hardy at Max Gate.

1924

‘Mme Suggia’ wins first prize at International Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh.

April–June, United States.

July, in Dublin for Taillteann Games. Stays with Lord Dunsany.

September-October, Paris.

1925

February, Lord Duveen gives ‘Mme Suggia’ to the Tate Gallery.

March–April, in Berlin. Paints Gustav Stresemann and Lali Horstmann.

May–June, Ischia with T. W. Earp.

Italy. Starts flower painting.

1926

February–March, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, United States: drawings.

February–April, France.

April, Elected member of Royal Society of Portrait Painters.

May, New Chenil Gallery: Paintings (47) and Drawings (35); Gwen John, paintings (44) and 4 albums of drawings.

17 June, begins portrait of Hugh Walpole.

9 July, ‘Art and the Public’, BBC talk. Meets and paints Sean O’Casey.

October, walks from Avignon to Marseilles with Horace de Vere Cole and A. R. Thomson.

December (till February 1927), at Villa Ste-Anne.

1927

Begins portrait of Lord D’Abernon.

March, moves from Alderney Manor to Fryern Court.

June–July, at Château de Missery.

July, helps Gwen John buy Yew Tree Cottage, Burgate Cross, Fordingbridge.

December (till January 1928), South of France.

1928

14 January–4 February, Anderson Gallery, New York: Paintings and Drawings.

April, Villa Ste-Anne sold.

August–December, in United States. Portrait of Governor Fuller.

5 December, elected Royal Academician.

1929

February, at Cap Ferrat with James Dunn.

4 April–17 May, Tooth’s Gallery: Recent Paintings (27).

May–June, designs sets for Act II of Sean O’Casey’s
The Silver Tassie.

July, Château de Missery.

September, Rheims.

October, paints T. E. Lawrence at Fryern Court.

November, drawing of Frederick Delius.

December, designs Noah’s Ark for Chelsea Arts Club Ball at Albert Hall.

1930

Contributes reminiscences to Ifan Kyrle Fletcher’s
Ronald Firbank.

April, Harlow, McDonald & Co, New York: Etchings and Drawings.

1 April, begins portrait of Montagu Norman.

April–May, in hospital, Preston Deanery Hall, Northampton.

July–September, Ireland. Portraits of W. B. Yeats and Brenda Gogarty.

October, Kiddalton Castle, Port Ellen, Isle of Islay. In Amsterdam with Dorelia.

November, Paris, James Joyce drawings.

December (till February 1931), Cap Ferrat.

1931

21 November, funeral of John Sampson who bequeaths John under Clause 8 of his will, ‘my Smith and Wesson Revolver No. 239892’.

1932

February–March, in Jersey with Sir Herbert Barker. More attention to knee. Lord D’Abernon’s portrait signed.

May, portraits of Joe Hone and T. W. Earp.

June, represented at XVIII Biennial International Art Exhibition, Venice.

July, France.

August, Cornwall. Romilly John’s
The Seventh Child
published by Heinemann.

December, Majorca.

Death of Mrs Nettleship.

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