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"At a time when figurative painting has long been out of fashion in British art schools and among the curators of the nation's galleries of modern art, its acknowledgement limited to Freud, Hockney and a handful of other grandees, Richard Harrison has been one of the very few younger contemporary artists to hold to this ancestral tradition. His early work was essentially abstract, and abstract values have formed the armature of all of his later work, but in subject he has moved from a convincing interest in the texture and manipulable qualities of the simple materials of a painting to biblical and mythical narratives that were common among European painters from the High Renaissance to the H...
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Died Oct. 17 1999.