Keith Vaughan (1912-1977)Keith Vaughan’s major paintings are seldom seen. They are divided between the Tate Gallery store, provincial museums and a large number of discriminating private collectors. It is the latter group, the private collectors, who are providing the hundred and more oil, gouache, and watercolour paintings, and the drawings in pencil and charcoal, for the first comprehensive selection of Vaughan’s work to be seen in London for forty years.Born at Selsey Bill, Sussex. Self taught. First one man show of drawings at the Lefevre Gallery in 1942, of paintings in 1946. Travelled extensively, was a visiting resident artist at Iowa State University, USA in 1959. Retrospective exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery with Arts Council in 1962. Memorial show at the Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield. The Tate Gallery and many other public galleries hold his work. Reclining Nude, unknown date
 Foreshore with Figures, 1962
 Wrestlers, ca. 1948
 Figure Drying ca. 1955
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