Ernest Procter

{{Short description|English artist (1885–1935)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}} {{Use British English|date=December 2016}} {{Infobox artist | name = Ernest Procter | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 22 March 1885 | birth_place = Tynemouth, Northumberland, England | death_date = 21 October 1935 (aged 50) | death_place = North Shields, County Durham, England | spouse = Dod Procter | known_for = Painter, illustrator | training = Forbes' School of Painting, Atelier Colarossi | movement = Newlyn School | notable_works = | patrons = | awards = | elected = | website = }}

'''Ernest Procter''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|ARA}} (22 March 1885–21 October 1935) was an English designer, illustrator and painter, and husband of British artist Dod Procter. He was actively involved with the Newlyn School, partner of the Harvey-Procter School and an instructor at the Glasgow School of Art.<ref name="CA">[http://cornwallartists.org/cornwall-artists/ernest-procter ''Ernest Procter.''] Cornwall Artists. Retrieved 2 October 2012.</ref><ref name="MJP">[https://dl.lib.brown.edu/mjp/render.php?view=mjp_object&id=mjp.2005.02.0637 ''Ernest Procter''.] Brown University, The Modernists Journal Project. Retrieved 3 October 2012.</ref>

==Personal life and education== Ernest Procter was born into a Quaker family in Tynemouth, Northumberland. His father Henry Richardson Procter was an eminent scientist and a Leeds University professor who specialised in leather chemistry. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society.<ref name="CA"/><ref name="Penlee">[http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/artists/ernest-procter.html ''Ernest Procter''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120902045813/http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/artists/ernest-procter.html |date=2 September 2012 }} Penlee House Gallery and Museum. Retrieved 3 October 2012.</ref> Edward painted his father's portrait.[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/professor-henry-richardson-procter-18481927-frs-39224]

Procter, like his father, attended school first in York at the Quaker Bootham School.<ref>{{cite book|author=Bootham Old Scholars Association |title=Bootham School Register|place=York, England|publisher=BOSA|year=2011}}</ref> From 1907 to 1910 he was a student of Stanhope Forbes at the Forbes' School of Painting in Newlyn, Cornwall. He contributed to the school's publication, ''The Paper Chase'' in 1908 and 1909, was an assistant to Stanhope and Elizabeth Forbes, and was a successful, well-respected student.<ref name="CA"/><ref name="MJP"/> At Forbes' Procter met his future wife Doris "Dod" Shaw; They were "amongst the Forbes' star pupils."<ref name="MJP"/><ref name="Penlee"/>

In 1910 and 1911 Procter studied in Paris at Atelier Colarossi. Dod Shaw was also a student at Atelier Colarossi. Ernest and Dod were both influenced by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism and the artists that they met in France, such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Cézanne. In 1912 Procter married Dod at the church of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Paris.<ref name="CA"/><ref name="MJP"/><ref name="CA-Dod">[http://cornwallartists.org/cornwall-artists/dod-procter ''Dod Procter''] Cornwall Artists. 3 October 2012.</ref> They had a son together named Bill and stayed in Paris until 1918.<ref name="CA-Dod"/><ref name="AM"/>

In 1918 Procter and his wife returned to Newlyn, where they primarily lived from that point onward. On 21 October 1935, after years of high blood pressure, Procter died of a cerebral haemorrhage in North Shields, County Durham, while travelling.<ref name="CA"/><ref name="Penlee"/><ref name="Tate"/>

==First World War== During the First World War Procter was a conscientious objector, serving with the Friends' Ambulance Unit<ref name="CA"/> in Dunkirk from April 1916 until February 1919.<ref>Some of his records as a member of the FAU (indexed as Proctor <sic>) are now available at http://fau.quaker.org.uk/search-view?forename=&surname=proctor</ref>

<gallery widths="160px" heights="160px" perrow="4"> File:Ernest Procter - Etaples, The Convoy Yard - Imperial War Museum.jpg|''Étaples, The Convoy Yard'', Imperial War Museum File:Ernest Procter - Nissen Huts, St Omer - Imperial War Museum.jpg|''Nissen huts, St Omer'', Imperial War Museum File:Ernest Procter - The Interior of a Garage, Boulogne - Imperial War Museum.jpg|''The Interior of a Garage, Boulogne'', Imperial War Museum File:Ernest Procter - The Interior of the BRCS and Order of St John Garage, Boulogne - Imperial War Museum.jpg|''The Interior of the BRCS and Order of St John Garage, Boulogne'', Imperial War Museum </gallery>

==Career== After the war Dod and Ernest Procter returned to Newlyn, where Ernest was a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists. In 1920 Ernest and Harold Harvey established the Harvey-Procter School.<ref name="CA"/><ref name="AM"/> They taught painting of still life, figures and landscapes in watercolour and oil.<ref name="Penlee"/> He and his wife, accepted a commission to decorate the Kokine Palace, Rangoon, in 1919 and 1920.<ref name="CA"/><ref name="AM"/>

Procter created in 1931 what he called Diaphenicons, which were "painted and glazed decorations that provided their own light source." Leicester Galleries exhibited these works.<ref name="CA"/>

The Glasgow School of Art appointed him Director of Studies in Design and Craft in 1934.<ref name="CA"/><ref name="Penlee"/>

==Works== Procter's works included portraits and landscapes.<ref name="AM"/> {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}}

===Paintings=== * ''All the Fun of the Fair''<ref name="AM">[http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/artist.aspx?artist=ernest-procter Ernest Procter] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002035913/http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/artist.aspx?artist=ernest-procter |date=2 October 2012 }} Art Magick. Retrieved 3 October 2012.</ref> * ''Aphrodite''<ref name="AM"/> * ''Delphiniums'', 1907<ref name="CA"/>** ''Earth, Water, Fire, Air'', 1928<ref name="CA"/> * ''Feather leaves'', 1934, a painted ceramic plate, Penlee House Gallery and Museum.<ref>[http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/collections/item/PEZPH:2002.18.html ''Feather leaves.''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110817032351/http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/collections/item/PEZPH:2002.18.html |date=17 August 2011 }} Penlee House Gallery and Museum. Retrieved 3 October 2012.</ref>{{#tag:ref|Produced in ''Bizarre'' by Clarice Cliff. Made for October 1934 Harrod's Exhibition.|group=nb}} * ''Helston Flora Dance'', 1926<ref name="CA"/> * ''Mother & Child'', 1924<ref name="CA"/> * ''Malo Gate, Dunkirk'', 1924<ref name="CA"/> * ''Night and Evening''<ref name="AM"/> * ''Porthgwarra'', oil on canvas, Penlee House Gallery and Museum.<ref name="Penlee"/> * ''Rising Tide'', 1936, Penlee House Gallery and Museum.<ref name="CA"/><ref>[http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/collections/item/PEZPH:1989.86.html ''Rising Tide''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304003842/http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/collections/item/PEZPH:1989.86.html |date=4 March 2016 }} Penlee House Gallery and Museum. Retrieved 3 October 2012.</ref> * ''Spring Hawthorn''<ref name="CA"/> * ''The Edge of the Shadow'', 1921, for a Royal Academy Exhibition<ref name="CA"/> * ''The Four Elements''<ref name="AM"/> * ''The Mischievous Boy''<ref name="AM"/> * ''The Road to Sancreed''<ref name="CA"/> * ''The Terrace'', 1921<ref name="CA"/> * ''The Zodiac'', 1925, oil on canvas, Tate<ref name="Tate">[http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/procter-the-zodiac-n04839 ''The Zodiac.''] Tate. Retrieved 3 October 2012.</ref> * ''Those Who Dare''<ref name="AM"/> * ''Versailles'', 1921<ref name="CA"/>

===Portraits=== * Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Bt<ref name="NPG">[http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp08087&role=art ''Ernest Procter.''] National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 3 October 2012.</ref> * Sir Thomas Beecham Conducting ''A Mass of Life'' at the Queen's Hall, 1929<ref name="NPG"/> *Frederick Delius<ref name="NPG"/> * Group including Frederick Delius and Philip Arnold Heseltine<ref name="NPG"/> * Sir Landon Ronald<ref name="NPG"/> {{Col-2}}

===Church or other commissions=== * St Mary's Church altar screen, Chapel Street, Penzance – which in 1985 was destroyed during a fire<ref name="CA"/> * Kokine Palace decorations, Rangoon, 1920 with his wife Dod.<ref name="CA"/>{{#tag:ref|The eastern aesthetic influenced his subsequent works.|group=nb}} * St Hilary Church, Cornwall: ** Depicted St Mawes, St Kevin and St Neot for the St Hilary Church pulpit<ref name="Hardie">Melissa Hardie. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=C6R_4AYYlHoC&pg=PA1915-IA1 100 Years in Newlyn: Diary of a Gallery]''. Hypatia Publications; 1 June 1995. {{ISBN|978-1-872229-22-5}}. p. 1915. Note: previous page to where this link lands, ironically not a page 1914.</ref> ** Reredos of the Altar of the Dead for the St Hilary Church<ref name="Hardie"/> ** ''Visitation'', 1933, St Hilary Church<ref name="CA"/> ** ''Deposition'', 1935, St Hilary Church<ref name="CA"/> ** Dod also made works for the St Hilary Church.<ref name="MJP"/> Ernest and Dod's works are still on view at the church.<ref name="Penlee"/>

===World War I=== * ''Étaples, The Convoy Yard'', 1918, pencil and watercolour, Imperial War Museum, Gift of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem, 1920<ref>[http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/22136 ''Étaples, The Convoy Yard''.] Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 3 October 2012.</ref> * ''Nissen Huts, St Omer'', chalk and gouache, Imperial War Museum, Gift of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem, 1920<ref>[http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/22137 ''Nissen Huts, St Omer''.] Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 3 October 2012.</ref> * ''The Interior of a Garage, Boulogne'', pastel drawing, Imperial War Museum, Gift of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem, 1920<ref>[http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/22133 ''The Interior of a Garage, Boulogne''.] Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 3 October 2012.</ref> * ''The Interior of the BRCS and Order of St John Garage, Boulogne'', pastel drawing, Imperial War Museum, Gift of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem, 1920<ref>[http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/22138 ''The Interior of the BRCS and Order of St John Garage, Boulogne''.] Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 3 October 2012.</ref>

===Book illustrations and other works=== * ''Crowns Mine, Botallack'', pencil drawing. Penlee House Gallery and Museum.<ref>[http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/collections/item/PEZPH:2003.46.html ''Crowns Mine, Botallack.''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304045913/http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/collections/item/PEZPH:2003.46.html |date=4 March 2016 }} Penlee House Gallery and Museum. Retrieved 3 October 2012.</ref> * ''In Newlyn (untitled)''. Penlee House Gallery and Museum.<ref>[http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/collections/item/PEZPH:2005.21.html ''In Newlyn (untitled)''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064012/http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/collections/item/PEZPH:2005.21.html |date=4 March 2016 }} Penlee House Gallery and Museum. Retrieved 3 October 2012.</ref> * ''No Breakfast for Growler'', 1901, book illustrations. Penlee House Gallery and Museum.<ref>[http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/collections/item/PEZPH:1995.6.html ''No Breakfast for Growler.''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304045900/http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/collections/item/PEZPH:1995.6.html |date=4 March 2016 }} Penlee House Gallery and Museum. Retrieved 3 October 2012.</ref> * ''Young Witches at Play in the Night Sky'', pastel drawing. Penlee House Gallery and Museum.<ref>[http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/collections/item/PEZPH:1996.L4.html ''Young Witches at Play in the Night Sky''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928093324/http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/collections/item/PEZPH:1996.L4.html |date=28 September 2013 }} Penlee House Gallery and Museum. Retrieved 3 October 2012.</ref> {{Col-end}}

==Museums and galleries== His works are part of collections at the Imperial War Museum, Tate, Leeds, Newcastle, Penlee House Gallery and Museum, and Worthing / Adelaide.<ref name="CA"/>

==Memberships== He was a member or affiliated to the following organisations:<ref name="CA"/><ref name="Tate"/> {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} * Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA), from 1932 * International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Engravers (IS), from 1925 * New English Art Club (NEAC), from 1929 {{Col-2}} * Newlyn Art Gallery (NAG), also called the Passmore Edwards Art Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall * Newlyn Society of Artists (NSA), Newlyn, Cornwall – member from 1924 to 34, trustee 1928 to 34 {{Col-end}}

==Exhibitions== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} Procter's work was exhibited:<ref name="CA"/><ref name="Tate"/> * 1904 +: Newlyn Art Gallery (NAG) – starting 1904, first sale 1909 * 1913: Fine Art Gallery * 1916 +: International Society * Leicester Galleries * Royal Academy (49) * Leicester Galleries (99)

Memorial exhibitions in 1936:<ref name="Tate"/> * Leicester Galleries * Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle {{Col-2}} Posthumous:<ref name="CA"/> * 1985: Painting in Newlyn 1900-1930, Newlyn Art Gallery (NAG) & Barbican Art Gallery * 1987: Looking West, Paintings inspired by Cornwall * 1989: A Century of Art in Cornwall, CCC centenary, Truro * 1990: Dod Procter RA and Ernest Procter ARA, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle * 1992: Royal West of England Academy, Bristol: Artists from Cornwall {{Col-end}}

==Gallery== <gallery widths=200px heights=200px> File:Ernest Procter - The Zodiac - Tate.jpg|Ernest Procter, ''The Zodiac'', 1925, oil paint on canvas, Tate Museum File:Ernest Procter - Porthgwarra - Penlee Museum.jpg|Ernest Procter, ''Porthgwarra'', oil on canvas, Penlee House  </gallery>

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==External links== {{commons category}} * {{Art UK bio}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20121002035913/http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/artist.aspx?artist=ernest-procter Ernest Procter] works * [http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=templates/full/person.html&_IXTRAIL_=Academicians&person=5851 Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections]

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