David Remfry

David Remfry

David Remfry, MBE RA (born 1942 in Worthing, England) is a British painter currently living in New York City. Best known for his life-size watercolors of urban scenes and nightclubs, his work is held by many museums in the United States of America and United Kingdom.

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Exhibitions

Remfry's work is based on the figure. He attended Hull College of Art from 1959-1964 before moving to London. His first show in the United States was at the Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles in 1980. He has exhibited since then at galleries in New York, Los Angeles and Florida and in 2002 had a solo exhibition at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY, Museum of Modern Art affiliate, curated by Alanna Heiss and Daniel Marzona. Solo museum shows in England include the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Ferens Art Gallery Hull, (1975 and 2005), Middlesbrough Art Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The National Portrait commissioned Remfry to paint Sir John Gielgud in 1981 and also acquired his watercolor of Jean Muir.

Remfry was elected a member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1987. In 2001 he was awarded the M.B.E. for services to British Art in America by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. In 2006 he was elected a Member of the Royal Academy of Arts, London and in 2007 he was invited to receive Honorary Doctorate of Arts by the University of Lincoln.

Work in Public Collections

Bass Museum of Art, Florida

Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida

British Museum, London

Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

Contemporary Art Society, London

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England

Middlesbrough Art Gallery, England

Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul

National Portrait Gallery (London)

New Orleans Museum of Art

Orlando Museum of Art, Florida

Museo Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombia

Royal Academy of Arts, London

Royal Watercolour Society, London

Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

The Museum at Florida International University, Florida

The Royal Collection, Windsor, England

Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, England

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England

Selected bibliography

  • Exhibition brochure, David Remfry A Selection of Large Works from the DANCERS Series, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, May 22—September 12, 2005. Essay by Edward Lucie-Smith.
  • Exhibition catalogue, David Remfry at Neuhoff Gallery, New York City, November 12,-- December 31, 2004. Essay by Vincent Katz. New Works on Paper by David Remfry.'
  • Exhibition catalogue, David Remfry Drawings for Stella McCartney, (In hardcover and soft-back) to accompany the exhibition Fashion into Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum, September 3–28, 2003. Introduction by Stella McCartney, David Remfry interviewed by Lance Esplund.
  • Book, (In hardcover and soft-back) David Remfry Dancers, David Remfry exhibition at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL (2002) toured to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England (2005). Essays by Edward Lucie-Smith, ‘David Remfry Dancers’, Dore Ashton ‘The Dance’ and Carter Ratcliff ‘The Meaning of the Dance, the Dance of Meaning’. Interview with the artist by Alanna Heiss. ISBN 0-936859-41-5 (softback) ISBN 0-936859-42-3 (Hardback). Exhibition brochure, David Remfry at P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center, New York City, Museum of Modern Art Affiliate, October 20, *2001—January 19, 2002. David Remfry interviewed by Alanna Heiss.
  • Exhibition catalogue, David Remfry at Neuhoff Gallery, New York City, October 11—November 8, 2001. Essay by Robert C. Morgan. ‘Lunar Creatures: New Watercolors by David Remfry.’
  • Exhibition catalogue, David Remfry at Neuhoff Gallery, New York City, October 20—December 4, 1999. Essay by Phyllis Tuchman, David Remfry, Sleepless City.’
  • Exhibition catalogue, David Remfry at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, March 26—May 9, 1999. Essay by George S. Bolge, ‘David Remfry, Personages.’
  • Exhibition brochure, David Remfry, Middlesbrough Art Gallery, May 30 – June 20, 1981.
  • Exhibition catalogue, David Remfry at Folkstone Art Gallery, Kent, England, March 12—April 18, 1976. Foreword by Marina Vaizey.
  • Exhibition brochure, David Remfry, Ferens Art Gallery, December 13, 1974 – January 11, 1975.
  • Exhibition catalogue, David Remfry, Editions Graphiques Gallery, 1974. Essay by Victor Arwas.

External links

  • Artist's official website [1]
  • Royal Academy of Arts [2]
  • National Portrait Gallery [3]
  • Victoria & Albert Museum [4]
  • Daily Telegraph Article [5]
  • Art in America Article [6]
  • P.S. 1 Center for Contemporary Art [7]
  • YouTube [8]

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