William Gear

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William Gear, RA, was born in Methil, Fife. He was Curator of the Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne and taught at Birmingham College of Art. He played an important role in the modern abstract movement of post-war Europe.

Artworks by William Gear

Spring Landscape (Signed edition of 25)

58 x 79 cm

Signed Limited Edition Silkscreen on Paper

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William Gear Biography

William Gear attended Edinburgh College of Art. In 1937 he studied briefly under Fernand Léger in Paris. After the war Gear worked in Germany, mounting exhibitions for the Allies. From 1948 to 1950 he lived in Paris, where he became affiliated to the COBRA movement. The COBRA artists (the initials stand for Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam, the home cities of many of the group's members), advocated a gestural, near abstract style of painting, influenced by primitivism and the art of children.