Adrian Allinson (1890-1959)

Adrian Allinson was a British painter, potter and engraver, known for his landscapes of Southern Europe and North Africa, and for a series of posters he made for British Railways.  Allinson was the eldest son of a doctor, Thomas Allinson, whose advocacy of vegetarianism and contraception had led to his being struck off, and a German Jewish portrait painter. After leaving Wycliffe College, Allinson began studying medicine, but gave this up and turned instead to art, gaining a scholarship in his second year at the Slade School of Fine Art. Graduating in 1910, he travelled to Europe to study in Paris and in Munich. Following his first exhibition, at the Alpine Club Gallery, in February 1911, he became one of the founding members of the Camden Town Group, and with other members later joined with the Vorticists to form The London Group. A pacifist, Allinson associated himself with the Bloomsbury Group during the First World W