Biography
Tony Stubbing (b. London 1921 - d. London 1983) born Newton Haydn Stubbing, was educated at Uppingham School, where he gained his first art prize. After a Newfoundland ornithology expedition, with Royal Geographical Society, in 1938, Stubbing was in the Army, 1939–47, including a period in Iceland, where he painted influenced by the local artist Kjarval. During 1946–7 Stubbing studied in the evening at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, his teachers including William Coldstream, Johnstone and Victor Pasmore. He was in Spain from 1947, becoming a founder-member of School of Altamira. He studied sculpture and ceramics and from 1951 developed his distinctive hand-print pictures, inspired by cave paintings. In the mid-1950s he designed for Marquis de Cuevas Ballet Company, moving in 1957 to Paris where he mingled with advanced artists. In the early 1960s Stubbing settled in New York where he produced single-colour Minimalist works. He moved back to London in 1963, although later travelled regularly to America. Until his death he painted many murals, including Isle of Man Casino and Findhorn Murals, Scotland and made a sculpture for Pergamon Press, Oxford. He designed for Royal Ballet School and in 1977 was voted Fellow of Lindisfarne Foundation, a cultural think-tank.Stubbing showed widely internationally in group exhibitions snd had many solo shows, at the British Institute, Famagusta, 1943; later ones included a retrospective, with extended monograph, at England & Co in 2000.
