Background
Rogers was born in London but spent his childhood in Buenos Aires.
Rogers was born in London but spent his childhood in Buenos Aires.
Slade School of Fine Artist
He returned to Britain in 1931 and lived in the Norwegian Seamen"s Mission building in Gravesend. He joined the London Artists" Association in 1931 and had his first exhibition with them in 1933. He taught at their original premises in Fitzroy Street and, from February 1938, at the Euston Road location that gave the group its name.
Membership of the New English Art Club followed in 1943.
During the Second World War Rogers served in the Royal Engineers until he was injured in 1943. He continued to paint and received a commission from the War Artists" Advisory Committee in May 1942 for a picture.
Two exhibitions resulted, The Euston Road School and others in May 1948 and a group retrospective which the Arts Council toured in 1948 and 1949. Rodgers worked at Camberwell until 1950 and then taught at the Slade until 1963, when he became the Professor of Fine Art at the University of Reading, a post he held until 1972.
Rogers had been the President of the London Group between 1952 and 1955.
In 1959 Rogers was awarded the Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Works by Claude Rogers are held in the collections of the Tate, the National Portrait Gallery, the National Trust, the Arts Council Collection and in the United Kingdom Government art collection.
Rogers was one of the original members of the, short-lived but highly influential, Euston Road School in 1937. Also, in 1938 he became a member of the London Group and held a solo show at the Leicester Galleries in 1940. After the war Rogers, and other former members of the Euston Road school, taught at the Camberwell School of Artist