Life of Henry Tonks

Henry Tonks was a surgeon turned artist who taught at the Slade School of Fine Art and became a War Artist during World War I. He created pastels of facial injury cases and visited Archangel, Russia, after the war. He died in 1937.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 31 December 2020
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group

Henry Tonks (1862 - 1937) was a surgeon before taking up a career in art. He was born in Solihull, educated in Bristol, and studied medicine in Brighton and London. From 1888, he took evening art classes at the Westminster School of Art, and by 1892, he had begun teaching at the Slade School of Fine Art, where he became an influential instructor to the likes of Stanley Spencer, Augustus John, and Paul Nash. During World War I, he resumed his career as a surgeon and famously created a series of pastel drawings of facial injury cases. By 1918, Tonks had become an official War Artist touring the Western Front with John Singer Sargent, and in 1919, he visited Archangel, Russia. Post-war, he continued as Slade Professor of Fine Art. He died at his home in Chelsea, London, in 1937.

Dimension: 193 x 140 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781910787595
Edition number: New ed