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ID: 500020355
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500020355
 
Record Type: Person
Ford, Gordon Onslow (English painter, 1912-2003, active in the United States)

Note: A Surrealist painter. Upon moving to Paris in the late 1930s, Ford became interested in Surrealism and soon became an official member of the Surrealist group. He later moved to New York where he lectured on Surrealism and organized a number of exhibitions of Surrealist art, influencing Abtract Expressionist artists. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art held a retrospective of his work in 1948 and the Oakland Museum staged another in 1978. His work can be found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Tate Britain, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Names:
Onslow-Ford, Gordon (preferred,V,index,LC)
Gordon Onslow-Ford (V,display)
Onslow-Ford, Gordon Max (V,Dutch,NA)
Ford, Gordon Onslow (V,English-P,NA,U)
Ford, Gordon Onslow (Dutch,NA)
Gordon Onslow Ford (V,Dutch,NA,U)
Gordon Max Onslow-Ford (V,Dutch,NA,U)
Ford, Gordon Onslow- (U)
פורד, גורדון אונסלו (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)
Ford, Gordon Onslow (1912-2003) (U,Dutch-P,NA)
Onslow Ford, Gordon (U)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
British (modern)
English

Roles:
artist (preferred)
painter
curator

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Wendover (Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)
Died:  Inverness (Marin county, California, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   United States (North and Central America) (nation)
active:   from the late 1930s  Paris (Île-de-France, France) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
colleague of ....  Mullican, Lee  
......................  (American painter and professor, 1919-1998) [500002977]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Ford, Gordon Onslow (I)

Biographies:
(English painter, 1912-2003, active in the United States) ..... [VP Preferred]
(British artist, op.1913-1942) ..... [WCI]
(American painter, born 1912) ..... [BHA]
(British artist, 1912-) ..... [WCP]
(British artist, b.1912) ..... [WCI]
(British artist, born 1912) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(artist) ..... [GRL]
(British artist, 1912-2003) ..... [MoMA]
(English painter, 1912-2003) ..... [IMJ]
(English painter, 1852-1901) ..... [RKD]
(English artist, 1912-2003) ..... [RKD]
(English painter, 1912-) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
פורד, גורדון אונסלו ........ [IMJ]
....................................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
Ford, Gordon Onslow ........ [IMJ Preferred, RKD, VP, WCI]
.......................................  CAA News 29/2 (2004) 23
.......................................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
.......................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 104548
.......................................  Witt Computer Index database
Ford, Gordon Onslow- ........ [GRL]
.........................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 81118814
Ford, Gordon Onslow (1912-2003) ........ [RKD Preferred]
.............................................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 293874
Gordon Max Onslow-Ford ........ [RKD, VP, WL-Courtauld]
..............................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Gordon Onslow-Ford ........ [GRL, MoMA, VP]
.......................................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
.......................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Gordon Onslow Ford ........ [RKD, VP]
.....................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Onslow-Ford, Gordon ........ [GRL Preferred, MoMA Preferred, VP Preferred]
.........................................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
.........................................  Ask Art [online] (2003) accessed 17 June 2003
.........................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 81118814
Onslow Ford, Gordon ........ [RKD]
.......................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 293874
Onslow-Ford, Gordon Max ........ [BHA Preferred, RKD, WCI Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
................................................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
................................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 60606
................................................  Witt Library, Authority files

Subject: ........ [BHA, Gallery Systems, GRL, IMJ, MoMA, RKD, VP, WCI, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Ask Art [online] (2003) accessed 17 June 2003
....................  Barron, California: 5 Footnotes to Modern Art History (1977)
....................  Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres (1976)
....................  CAA News 29/2 (2004) 23
....................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n81118814
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n81118814
....................  MoMA, Library Catalog (1976)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 293874; 60606; 104548
....................  Vollmer, Künstler-Lexikon 20. Jahrhunderts (1953-62)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q3889392; Q2065439
....................  Witt Computer Index database
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [VP, WL-Courtauld]
.......... CAA News 29/2 (2004) 23
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