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Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Gordon Onslow Ford; painted inner worlds of the mind (445 words) |
 | Onslow Ford was born in Wendover, England, into an artistic family. |
| Onslow Ford went to New York in 1941 and lectured on Surrealism at the New School. |
| Onslow Ford was known as a member of a three-artist group called Dynaton -- named for the Greek word for possible. |
| Guardian | Gordon Onslow Ford (640 words) |
| Gordon's grandfather, Edward Onslow Ford, whose sculpted por-traits of eminent Victorians are now largely consigned to the outer darkness at the National Portrait Gallery, was a great luminary in his day; an aunt and an uncle were also artists. |
| Onslow Ford's time studying with the two cubist-inspired painters was not a success, but soon he met the Chilean artist Matta (obituary, November 25 2002), who drew him into the surrealist circle. |
| Onslow Ford settled down in his "quest for the inner worlds", a notion which, as the oddball, quasi-religious beliefs of Kandinsky and Mondrian had done earlier, motivated a convincing body of work out of a base of technical virtuosity. |
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