John Stanton Ward

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John Stanton Ward

by Jack Heath
etching, circa 1938-1939
5 7/8 in. x 3 5/8 in. (148 mm x 93 mm) plate size; 5 in. (126 mm overall
Given by the artist's daughter, Bronwen Heath, 2016
Reference Collection
NPG D47412

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  • John Stanton Ward (1917-2007), Portrait painter, book illustrator and architectural draughtsman. Sitter in 8 portraits, Artist or producer of 15 portraits.

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Britain pursues its policy of appeasement. At the Munich Agreement, Britain, France and Italy agreed to allow Hitler to seize the Sudetenland area of Czechoslovakia. The agreement was seen at the time as a triumph for peace, with Neville Chamberlain returning home brandishing the paper agreement and saying 'peace for our time.' Within six months Germany had occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia.

Art and science

Graham Greene publishes Brighton Rock. The novel follows the descent of Pinky, a teenage gang leader in Brighton's criminal underworld. The book examines the criminal mind and explores the themes of morality and sin - recurrent concerns for the Roman Catholic Author.
Glasgow hosts the Empire Exhibition; an £11 million celebration of the British Empire visited by 13 million people.

International

In its pursuit of 'Lebensraum' (living space), Germany annexes Austria and parts of Czechoslovakia with little opposition from the League of Nations. At home, the Nazis continued their escalating persecution of the Jews with 'Kristallnacht' (the Night of Broken Glass), attacking Jewish homes, shops, businesses and synagogues, and taking Jewish men to concentration camps.

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Stephen Govier

17 May 2020, 11:29

John Stanton Ward [1917-2007] was born at Hereford and went to St Owen's School, Hereford and Hereford Art School [1932-1936] and at the Royal College of Art [1936-1939] being tutored by Gilbert Spencer. In 1939 he joined the Royal Engineers and after the 2nd World War returned to the Royal College of Art in 1947. At the Royal College of Art he became a friend of James Henry Govier [1910-1974] who like John was tutored by Malcolm Osborne and Robert Austin. Stephen Govier son of the artist.