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John Egerton Christmas Piper

John Egerton Christmas Piper (1903 - 1992) was active/lived in Illinois / England, United Kingdom.  John Piper is known for Abstract and naturalist landscape painting-churches, war artist.

A versatile painter depicting churches, other architectural structures, and fauve-like abstract landscapes, John Piper was also a theatre set designer, and writer.  With his wife, painter Myfanwy Piper, he founded Axis, a contemporary art journal. 

Piper lived much of his adult life at Fawley Bottom near Henley-on-Thames, but had an active career beyond his residence.  He did set designs in London for the Royal Opera House's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream by Benjamin Britten, and for operas by Alun Hoddinott.  He designed stained-glass windows for many churches including Coventry Cathedral, and tapestries for Chicester and Hereford Cathedrals.

John Piper was born and raised at Epsom, a village eighteen miles southwest of London on the chalk hills or "downs' of Epsom.  He was educated at Epsom College, Richmond School of Art, and Royal College of Art in London.  His early painting was abstract, increasingly his fascinat   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7045 characters.]  Artist bio

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