Background
ROTHENSTEIN, John Knewstub Maurice was born on July 11, 1901 in London. Son of Sir William Rothenstein and Alice M. Knewstub.
ROTHENSTEIN, John Knewstub Maurice was born on July 11, 1901 in London. Son of Sir William Rothenstein and Alice M. Knewstub.
Bedales School, Worcester College, Oxford, and University College London.
Writer and art director. Assistant Professor, of Art History University of Kentucky 1927-1928, University of Pittsburgh 1928-1929. Director of City Art Galleries Leeds 1932-1934, Sheffield 1933-1938.
Director and Keeper Tate Gallery 1938-1964. Fellow, Worcester College, Oxford since 1963. Fellow, University College London 1971.
Rector University of St. Andrews 1964-1967. President Friends of Bradford Art Galleries and Museums since 1972. Professor, of Art History, Fordham University, New York 1967-1968, Agnes Scott College, Georgia 1969-1970.
Distinguished Professor, Brooklyn College, of the City University, New York 1971 and 1972. Regents’ Lecturer, University of Calif, at Irvine 1973. President Friends of the Stanley Spencer Gallery since 1981.
Honorary Doctor of Laws (New Brunswick 1961, St. Andrews 1964). Knight Commander.
The Portrait Drawings of William Rothenstein, 1889-1925 1926, Eric Gill 1927, The Artists of the 1890’s 1928, Morning Sorrow (novel) 1930, Sixteen Letters H Bdpet aid Uni* ( •issil* IBM Hen sat W-5(l:Ast Cold IBDI. Research nil Electricity ataialEKnB Su| ifMMMl&r Cbrnn ■■BWi. Go timepnt adviwn n Ik fink 1965: Hot. f aktfMEnp., Felii *na.Prtt,Dniv. of Ehtfc t&Miintioiu Reran Sttlmn nueiHti nfrom Oscar Wilde (editor) 1930, British Artists and the War 1931, Nineteenth Century Painting 1932, An Introduction to English Painting 1933, The Life and Death of Conder 1938, Augustus John 1944, Edward Burra 1945, Manet 1945, Foreign Pictures in the Tate Gallery 1949, Turner 1949, London’s River, an Anthology (with Father Vincent Turner, S.J.) 1951, Modem English Painters, Vol. I Sickert to Smith 1952, Vol.
II, Lewis to Moore 1956, Vol. Ill, Wood to Hockney 1974, The Modems and their World (introduction) 1957, The Tate Gallery 1958, 1962, British Art since 1900: an Anthology 1962, Matthew Smith 1962, Paul Nash 1962, Augustus John 1963, Sickert 1963, Turner (with Martin Butlin) 1964, Francis Bacon (with Ronald Alley) 1964, Summer’s Lease (autobiography I) 1965, Brave Day, Hideous Night (II) 1966, BBC TV: Collection and Recollection 1968, Churchill the Painter (COI) 1968, Time’s Thievish Progress (III) 1970, Victor Hammer: Artist and Craftsman 1978, Stanley Spencer the Man: Correspondence and Reminiscences (editor) 1979, John Nash 1984, Stanley Spencer 1989.
British Council 1938-1964. Art Panel, Arts Council Great Britain 52, 1954-1956. Advisory Committee on decoration of Westminster Cathedral since 1953.
Council Friends of the Tate Gallery since 1958.
Married Elizabeth Kennard Whittington Smith in 1929.