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§ Kenn Burrows (British, 20th Century) Admiring the family chickens oil on board 60 x 74cm (23 x 29in)
Other Notes: Kenn Burrows lived in Cambridge, originally from London he trained at Hornsea Art School.and then worked with the BBC and ITV before setting up The Print Shop with Gordon Gillick in St Ives, Cambridgeshire. His work was exhibited and sold all over the world since the 1960s. Burrows was particularly known for his silkscreen prints, some of which were exhibited at the Royal Academy. His "Avoid the Rush Hour" poster for London Transport is well-known, and he won the Observer Prize for "Barn Interior". "Cockerel" adorned the set of ITV's Coronation Street. He last exhibited in a major exhibition at the Discerning Eye exhibition in London's Mall Galleries. Kenn Burrows had a simplified way of depicting figures, in an abstracted and suggestive manner. Burrows was more interested in portraying a 'type' or a 'stereotype' as opposed to a recognisable identity. In the late 1960s Kenn Burrows sold his "Pied Piper of Hamelin" to John Lennon.

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