Lot 743: John Henry Norman ROI 1896-1982- "Red & Green No

John Henry Norman ROI 1896-1982- "Red & Green No 2"; oil on board, signed and dated 1947, 50x61.5cm. Note: John Henry Norman, known as Harry Norman, was a painter in oils. After war service, he worked in manufacturing whilst attending evening classes under William Henry Milnes at Coventry School of Art 1919-24. Norman was a founder of Coventry Art Circle, of which he was chairman for many years; from 1934 he was a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Oils (ROI) and later a fellow of the Royal Society of Artists. He also exhibited at Royal Academy, Paris Salon, Royal Society of British Artists (RBA), United Society of Artists (UA), Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and elsewhere in the provinces. Coventry's Herbert Art Gallery & Museum gave him a solo show in 1962. Norman first attracted attention for his romantic landscapes but in the middle 1930s moved towards greater formal abstraction and freedom, devising his Golden Mean charts, a series of geometrically constructed radiations and relationships. He urged fellow-artists to "guarantee your relativities". Coventry Museum and Art Gallery holds a number of his works.