Figurative and abstract artist and
teacher, born in London, who worked in oil,
etching and
3-dimensions. He studied at Ealing School
of Art and the Royal College of Art; teachers including John
Nash, Francis Bacon, Rodrigo Moynihan
and Edward
Bawden.
Rae showed
considerable early talent, exhibiting at the RA
in 1946 and by the age
of 21 he had held two successful London solo
shows, which gained critical appreciation. He taught
etching at Edinburgh Collge of Art and
3-dimensional design
at Liverpool College of Art where younger
artists found his approach sympathetic. Much of Rae's early painting was
destroyed, the fate of most of his sculpture made between 1970 and
1980, when he began painting again.
Rae retired
from teaching to settle in Bradpole, Bridport,
Dorset where the local
landscape was an influence on his work as were
Bacon and Balthus.
In the mid
1990s he wrote that he was painting "more at
present than at any other time, but avoid the art world
and glad to be quite out of touch."
Mixed shows
include Aitken Dott, Edinburgh, The London Group
and the Young Contemporaries. Showed twice
with the Little Gallery. Other one man
exhibitions included
Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and Dorchester Museum
and Art Gallery in
1994. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool holds
his work.
Taken from the
Dictionary of Artists in Britain since
1945
by
David Buckman
