Charles E Peers Pencil Drawing "From Kloof Nek" (Chas E Peers)
On offer this original pencil drawing by renowned and listed artist Charles E Peers, titled "From Kloof Nek" and signed in the lower right corner of the drawing. It is framed in a wooden frame, behind glass. This is an old piece of art, but in good condition with no visible foxing. With frame, it measures 49x41cm.
Peers was born in Northern Ireland in 1875 and came to South Africa in 1904. Please see below the photos a more comprehensive biography of the artist - Source - Berman, E. 1994. Art & Artists of South Africa . Southern Book Publishers.
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Charles Ernest Peers was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland 1875 - 1944
Art Education
Briefly at Liverpool School of Art; also, possibly, at Slade School, London.
Short Artist Biography
Youth spent in Liverpool; Charles Peers fascinated by local shipping activity; initially intended to pursue a naval career; later worked as a draughtsman for a marine architect, but could not afford to studyprofessionally.
1904: Charles Peers came out to South Africa, mainly for health reasons; settled in Cape Town where his brother was a shipping agent.
1905: Charles Peers elected member of South African Society of Artists
1924: Charles Peers winner of Cape Times poster competition.
1926: member of South African Institute.
1930: Charles Peers published two folios of lithographic drawings - `The Cape' and `Natal'. Member of the Owl Club, Cape Town; President in 1934.
1935: Chairman of the K Club, Cape Town.
1938: invited by New Group to participate in their first exhibition, subsequently elected Chairman of the Group. Employed by various printing firms as a chromo-lithographer and designer. During his early career Charles Peers painted exclusively in watercolour, but from c1922 began to work in oil as well. Illustrated `The Seven Wonders of Southern Africa' by Hedley ChIIvers
Art Exhibitions
1923: one-man art exhibition oil paintings, watercolours and pastels, Lezard's Galleries, Johannesburg. 1927: Inaugural Exhib, South African Institute, Durban.
1938: first New Group Exhibition.
1948: Overseas Art Exhibition of South African Art
1953: Rhodes Centenary Exhibition, Bulawayo.
1957: `Founders of Painting at the Cape since 1857', South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
1975: Prestige Exhibition, South African National Gallery.
Public Art Collections
South African National Gallery; William Humphreys Gallery, Kimberly; Durban Art Gallery; Pretoria Art
Museum
Source
Berman, E. 1994. Art & Artists of South Africa . Southern Book Publishers.
