ALLINSON, Adrian

Adrian Allinson was born in 1890 and studied at the Slade under Tonks, Steer, Brown and Russell, winning the Slade Scholarship. He exhibited at the RA, NEAC and LG aswell as Redfern and Leicester Galleries. He taught at Westminster School of Art. He died in 1959.

Allinson was born in London. After leaving Wycliffe College, Allinson began studying medicine, but gave this up and turned instead to art, gaining a scholarship in his second year at the Slade. Graduating in 1910, he travelled to Europe to study in Paris and in Munich. Following his first exhibition, at the Alpine Club Gallery, in February 1911, he became one of the founding members of the Camden Town Group, and with other members later joined with the Vorticists to form The London Group.

A pacifist, Allinson associated himself with the Bloomsbury Group during the First World War, producing drawings for the Daily Express newspaper and one of his most important works, a scene inside the Cafe Royale made in 1915–16.

Following the war he again travelled to Europe. He became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1933 and of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1936. During the 1930s he made a series of posters for London Transport.