Charles Mahoney (artist)
| Charles Mahoney | |
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| Born | 18 November 1903 |
| Died | 11 May 1968 (aged 64) London |
| Nationality | British |
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| Known for | Art teacher and painter |
Cyril Mahoney, known as Charles Mahoney, RA (18 November 1903 – 11 May 1968) was a British artist and teacher.
Mahoney was born in Lambeth, London and attended Beckenham College of Art before studying at the Royal College of Art, RCA, from 1922 to 1926. At the RCA his fellow students included Edward Bawden and Barnett Freedman, who gave him the nickname Charles which Mahoney adopted for his professional career. In 1928, Mahoney accepted a teaching post at the RCA and would continue to work there until 1953. During this period he led the Colleges' composition class and later the Mural Room. Mahoney and a group of students, which included Evelyn Dunbar, were commissioned to decorate the assembly hall of Brockley County School for Boys, in south London with a series of murals illustrating Aesop's fables, that were unveiled in 1936. Other mural commissions completed by Mahoney included The Pleasures of Life at Morley College alongside Bawden and Eric Ravilious, two works at the Festival of Britain in 1951 and a mural for the Lady Chapel at Campion Hall in Oxford. In 1937, he wrote the book Gardeners' Choice which was illustrated by Dunbar.
Mahoney married the calligrapher, and fellow RCA tutor, Dorothy Bishop in 1941 and from 1945 the couple lived in Wrotham, Kent. From 1954 to 1963, he taught at the Byam Shaw School of Art and from 1961 until 1968 at the Royal Academy Schools. Mahoney was elected an associate member of the Royal Academy in 1961 and elected a full Academician in 1968.
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