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Derek Boshier

Derek Boshier (Born 1937) is active/lives in Texas, California / England.  Derek Boshier is known for Modernist fantasy genre and figure painting, teaching.

The following was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California.

Derek Boshier was born in 1937 in Portsmouth, England.  He studied at the Yoevil School of Art from 1953 to 1957, and at the Royal College of Art from 1959 to 1962.  He is a contemporary of David Hockney, Allen Jones, Peter Phillips and Ronald Kitaj.  He is also one of the group of young artists who, in 1961, launched Pop Art in Britain, and therefore was included in shows in the Paris Biennale, the Hague, Vienna and Berlin, Munich, and York. 

He taught at the Central College of Art and Design and the Hornsey College of Art in London from 1963 through 1973, and the Royal College of Art from 1973 through 1975, and in 1975 at the University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada.   

In the content of his pictures Boshier showed man as "Manipulated Man", according the human figure the same treatment as mass-produced co   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3500 characters.]  Artist bio

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