Robin Craig Guthrie
(1902-1971), PainterSitter in 1 portrait
Artist of 20 portraits
Robin Guthrie was born in Harting, Sussex, the son of James Joshua Guthrie (1874-1952), also an artist and writer, and the founder of the Pear Tree Press. He studied at the Slade School of Art (1918-22) under Philip Wilson Steer and Henry Tonks and from 1923 exhibited with the New English Art Club; later his work was shown in the Goupil Gallery and at the Fine Art Society. His draughtsmanship was admired from early in his career and in addition to painting and drawing landscapes and portraits he undertook book illustrations, including his father's A Wild Garden (1924).
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Crispin Robinson
26 September 2022, 17:44
My family through my mother Rosemary Robinson inherited three Guthrie works of art. Her great aunt was Ernestine Greaves with whom Robin G had an affair in the mid 1930s. They also travelled to Germany together before the war. He painted her portrait; we have a print of the poet Edward Thomas (you have it too I believe) and a fine drawing of a young man dated 1935.