Gordon Onslow-Ford

British, (1912–2003)

Gordon Onslow-Ford was born in Wendover, United Kingdom in 1912. He did not have a formal education in art but learned from his grandfather, Edward Onslow-Ford who was a well-known sculptor. He did attend the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1922. While in the Navy, he went to Paris and studied under artist Fenand Léger and met Surrealist artist Matta. His work is exhibited in the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York.