1935 Born Leicester
1951-55 Loughborough College of Art
1955-59 Royal Academy Schools
1959-65 Lecturer in Drawing and Painting Loughborough College of Art
Portraits include:
Sir Michael Tippett
Malcolm Muggeridge
David Hicks
Nanette Newman
Robin Chapman
Georgia Brown
Mary Quant
Nadia Nerina
Dr Roy Strong
President François Mitterrand
HRH The Princess Margaret
Elton John
The Earl of Perth
Lester Piggott
Lord Ashby
John Reid
Sir Rex Richards
Sir Frederick Wood
Harold Macmillan
HRH The Prince of Wales
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
Diana, Princess of Wales
Lord Attenborough
James Callaghan
The Lord Patten of Barnes
Sir Colin Cowdrey
Martin Johnson
Ray Cooper
Sir Alan Sugar
Professor Elizabeth Fallaize
Bryan Organ was born in Leicestershire in 1935. He now lives in London and Leicestershire.
Between 1952 -1959 he studied at Loughborough College of Art and at the Royal Academy Schools. He was a Lecturer in Drawing and Painting at Loughborough College of Art from 1959-65. He has had one-man shows in London, New York, Italy and Germany. Represented by the Redfern Gallery since 1967, Organ's works are in public and private collections worldwide.
His paintings include portraits, the following of which are in the Natioanl Portrait Gallery: Dr Roy Strong, 1971; Lester Piggott, 1973; Harold Macmillan, 1980; HRH The Prince of Wales, 1981; Lady Diana Spencer, 1981; Lord Denning, 1982; Jim Callaghan, 1983; HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, 1983.
Other portraits include Sir Michael Tippett, 1966, Mary Wuant, 1969; HRH The Princess Margaret, 1970; Elton John, 1973; Prisedent Mitterand, 1985; Richard Attenborough (later Lord Attenborough), 1985, 2003; Lord Jenkins 2002; Martin Johnson, 2004; Allan Sugar, 2010.
Bryan Organ has been made an Hon MA Loughborough, 1974 (and Hon DLitt, 1992) and Hon DLitt: Leicester, 1985
Solo Exhibitions
1959 Leicester Museum and Art Gallery
1965 Gadsby Gallery, Leicester
1967 Redfern Gallery, London
1968 Kunsthalle, Darmstadt
1968 Gadsby Gallery, Leicester
1969 Redfern Gallery, London
1971 Redfern Gallery, London
1973 Redfern Gallery, London
1975 Redfern Gallery, London
1976 Gadsby Gallery, Leicester
1977 Harold Reed Gallery, New York
1977 Baukunst Gallery, Cologne
1978 Redfern Gallery, London
1980 Redfern Gallery, London (Portraits and related studies of Harold Macmillan)
Group Exhibitions
1969 Mostra Mercato d'Arte Contemporanea, Florence
1970 3rd International Exhibition of Drawing, Darmstadt
1977 São Paulo Museum of Art, Brazil