Michael Kidner RA (1917-2009)
Born: 11 September 1917, Kettering, England
Elected RA: 26 May 2004
Category of Membership: Painter
Michael Kidner RA died on Sunday 29 November 2009.
Michael Kidner RA, Creationism? Michael Kidner read History and Anthropology at Cambridge University from 1936 to 1939 before studying landscape architecture at Ohio State University from 1940 to 1941. After five years in the Canadian army he trained himself as an artist and moved to Paris. He first came to prominence in the 1960s following his first solo exhibition at St Hilda’s College, Oxford in 1959. Kidner’s distinctive style was formed after he came under the influence of the American Expressionists. He was a pioneer in the Op Art movement.
