Gordon Onslow Ford was the last surviving member of the 1930s Paris surrealist group surrounding André Breton. He was born in Wendover, England, on December 26, 1912. He served in the British Navy until 1937 after which he focused on his art career. In 1938 he became an official member of the surrealist group in Paris. At the onset of World War II, he returned to Britain. In 1941 he was asked to present a series of lectures in New York. Wikipedia
Gordon Onslow Ford , a painter who was one of the last Parisian Surrealists, died on Nov. 9 at his home in Inverness, Calif. He was 90. In Paris in the late 1930's, Mr. Ford was inspired by the abstract approaches to Surrealist painting taken by artists www.weinstein.com/ford/obituary.html
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