BIOGRAPHY
	Bernard Meninsky (1891-1950) 60th Anniversary Exhibition paintings and works on paper   7 May - 5 June 2010
It is sixty years since Meninsky took his life. Meninsky was one of the most talented and a central figure of a generation of great Anglo Jewish artists that included Bomberg, Gertler, Kramer and Rosenberg, Despite the power of his work, the excellence of his draughtsmanship and the spiritual feel of his figurative work, he is probably the least known. This is partly due to the fact he spent most of his life teaching and partly to his lack of self confidence. In addition, he did not quite fit into any specific style - He had his own voice and vocabulary of art which had probably more to do with Picasso than the Neo Romantic art movement with which he has been associated in recent years.. The Boundary Gallery is delighted to show a series of works on paper for the first time ever. Destined to the waste paper baskets by Meninsky in dark moods, these works, some of which are superb, were saved by his widow and have just come to light. Brief biography: Born in Ukraine 1891; family arrived to Liverpool c1896 Left school 1902; began evening classes in art 1903    Won second prize in national drawing competition 1906    Won scholarship to Liverpool School of Art that he left with King's Medal 1909    Summer course at the Royal College of Art 1911    Won award taking him to Paris to study at Academie Julian for 3 months 1912    Scholarship to Slade School of Art 1913    Began 35 years of teaching at Central School of Art 1914    Enlisted with Royal Fusiliers, posted in Palestine 1918    After a breakdown, six months contract as War Artist 1919    Elected to London Group 1923    Elected to New English Arts Club 1927    Married Nora 1935    Designed sets and costumes for ballet David produced by Markova-Dolin Company 1940    Moved to Oxford where he taught at the Oxford City School of Art 1945    Returned to London and to his teaching job at Central School of Art 1946    llustrated Milton's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso Selected Solo exhibitions 1951    Arts Council Memorial Exhibition at New Burlington Gardens, London,              Oxford Museum of Modern Art 1978    City Art Gallery, York 1979    Worthing Art Gallery 1981    Retrospective touring show, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, Blond Fine Art,              London Public Collections incl. British Museum, Tate Gallery, Imperial War Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Manchester City Art Gallery, Sheffield, Wakefield, and Nottingham Museums, Museum of New South Wales, Australia..