Robin Ironside (1912-1965), Artist and Writer

Robin Ironside was a painter and writer on art. He wrote an influential forty-page work, "Painting Since 1939", for The British Council (published 1947).

Painting Since 1939 by Robin Ironside. The Arts in Britain: No.6. Published for the British Council by Longmans Green and Co, London, New York, Toronto.

Variously described as a "Neo-Romantic Visionary", a "Romantic Expressionist" and as a "Surrealist", he was also known to be a user of hallucinogenic drugs such as Dr John Collis Browne's Chlorodyne

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