Herbert George Rodrigo Moynihan

장소: Santa Cruz De Tenerife

타고난: 1910

죽음: 1990

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Rodrigo Moynihan was an English painter, credited with being a pioneer of abstract painting in England. He was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, in 1910, to Herbert James Moynihan, a fruit broker from County Cork, and Maria (née de la Puerta). His Anglo-Spanish family moved to London in 1918. Moynihan served in the British Army from 1940 to 1943, first in the Royal Artillery and then doing camouflage work. Following an injury, he was given a job in the War Office, where he worked until 1946. He then became a professor of painting at the Royal College of Art 1948–1957, and was elected a full member of the Royal Academy in 1955. He married artist Elinor Bellingham-Smith in 1931 (one son, John Moynihan). They divorced in the late '50s and in 1960, he married fellow-artist Anne Dunn with whom he had a son. Moynihan was re-elected to the Royal Academy in 1979. He has paintings in the collection of several British institutions including the Tate Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum. He died in London in 1990.