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'Last Dambuster dedicates his award of MBE to fallen war comrades.' 3. Magazine article 'Our last surviving Dambuster' SQUADRON LEADER JOHN 'JOHNSON MBE DFC bomb aimer in one of the Lancasters to reach the Sorpe Dam. Goodclean condition, in original frame.ĭambusters Unsigned excellent collection of articles, obituaries and news stories. The board not including frame measures 61x46cm. Purchased from the artist while Thornton was still exhibiting in Birmingham, it has been in the same family since. Latterly however, the majority of his work has shown views of hill towns and villages in Tuscany and Provence of which this is one. Prior to the mid-1960s most of his work depicted the Black Country and Birmingham, particularly showing bombdamaged buildings and industrial deterioration. His pictures are mainlylandscapes incorporating buildings, no doubt owing some allegiance tohis architectural background. He has exhibited his paintings extensively throughout the West Midlands, his main mediums being watercolour and gouache. He has been in architectural practice all his working life and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1950.
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Elected an Associate of theSociety in 1978 full membership followed three years later. Titled Tourettes Sur Loup-ProvenceĪ painter and architect, Richard Thornton was born in Bebington, Cheshire and attended the Birmingham School of Art from 1939 to 1941.Following active war service, he furthered his studies at the School of Architecture, Birmingham, from 1946 to 50. A stunning Oil on Board by Richard Thornton circa 1960s.