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Ink wash on paper
Dimensions: 60cm x 72cm framed
His works typically drew inspiration from the Welsh landscape and farmlands. His works may be seen in a permanent exhibition in the Oriel Kyffin Williams Gallery which opened in 2008 in Llangefni, Anglesey, as well as at many other galleries elsewhere in Britain. He was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy and was appointed a member of the Royal Academy in 1974.
In 1995 Williams received the Glyndwr Award for an Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Wales. He was awarded the OBE for his services to the arts in 1982 and was knighted in 1999.
Williams was a great raconteur and also a fine writer, publishing his autobiography in "Across the Straits" and "A wider sky".
The National Library of Wales was one of the first national institutions to purchase one of his pictures in the late forties and continued to buy his works thereafter. In acknowledgement of their support he bequeathed many of his papers and a large body of his pictures to the library, which now holds probably the largest single body of his work.
Williams' work is in the collections of a number of Welsh museums and galleries.[16]
In June 2018, he was the subject of a 50-minute BBC Television documentary, Kyffin Williams: The Man Who Painted Wales.
Ink wash on paper
Dimensions: 60cm x 72cm framed
His works typically drew inspiration from the Welsh landscape and farmlands. His works may be seen in a permanent exhibition in the Oriel Kyffin Williams Gallery which opened in 2008 in Llangefni, Anglesey, as well as at many other galleries elsewhere in Britain. He was president of the Royal Cambrian Academy and was appointed a member of the Royal Academy in 1974.
In 1995 Williams received the Glyndwr Award for an Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Wales. He was awarded the OBE for his services to the arts in 1982 and was knighted in 1999.
Williams was a great raconteur and also a fine writer, publishing his autobiography in "Across the Straits" and "A wider sky".
The National Library of Wales was one of the first national institutions to purchase one of his pictures in the late forties and continued to buy his works thereafter. In acknowledgement of their support he bequeathed many of his papers and a large body of his pictures to the library, which now holds probably the largest single body of his work.
Williams' work is in the collections of a number of Welsh museums and galleries.[16]
In June 2018, he was the subject of a 50-minute BBC Television documentary, Kyffin Williams: The Man Who Painted Wales.