Where did Leonard Rosoman work from 1956 to 1989?
Leonard Rosoman Leonard Rosoman ( 27 October 1913 – 21 February 2012 ) was a British artist . Early life . Rosoman was born in London and educated at the Deacons school , Peterborough , and then at the King Edward VII school of art in Newcastle upon Tyne , under E.M.OR . Dickey in 1930–4 , at the Royal Academy Schools in 1935–6 and at the Central School under Bernard Meninsky in 1937–8 . His first major break came in 1937 , with a commission to illustrate My Friend Mr Leakey , a childrens book by the scientist JBS Haldane . From 1938 he ran life classes at the Reinmann school , the London branch of a Berlin art college . World War II . At the beginning of the Second World War Rosoman joined the Auxiliary Fire Service , which in 1941 became the National Fire Service , and began making paintings based on his experiences as a fire-fighter during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz in London . One of these A House Collapsing on Two Firemen , Shoe Lane , London , EC4 ( 1941 ) , now in the Imperial War Museum , shows the incident on the night of 29/30 December 1940 in which a young fireman who had just relieved Rosoman at his position was killed by a collapsing building in the City of London . Whilst the other fireman , the author William Sansom , survived , the scene haunted Rosoman and he re-worked the painting several times . Rosoman sometimes called his work , The Falling Wall . It was completed in August 1941 . The painting was shown in the Firemen Artists exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1941 . A number of artists had joined the NFS and an firemen artists committee had been formed which included Bernard Hailstone , Paul Lucien Dessau , Norman Hepple and Robert Coram as well as Rosoman . As well as contributing to both War Artists Advisory Committee , WAAC , and specialist civil defence art shows , the firemen held several of their own exhibitions . In 1943 Rosoman was seconded to the War Office to illustrate books on fire-fighting , and in April 1945 was appointed , by the War Artists Advisory Committee , to a full-time salaried position , along with James Morris , to document the activities of the British Pacific Fleet . Commissioned as a captain in the Royal Marines , he was posted to the Far East . He joined the aircraft carrier HMS Formidable in Sydney in May 1945 and sailed with her for three months before returning to Sydney to work his on-board sketches into finished paintings . On board Formidable he became fascinated by the new technologies he encountered there , Ive become interested in all sorts of strange devices like radar indicators , pom-poms and planes with wings that fold up like a moths . He travelled to Hong Kong in September 1945 to record bomb damage and although he reached the coast of Japan he did not go ashore there . Later life . On his return to Britain , Rosoman taught at Camberwell College of Art for a while before moving to Edinburgh College of Art in 1948 to teach mural painting . He organised a famous exhibition for Sergei Diaghilev at the Edinburgh festival of 1954 and , with the help of students , made a large mural at the art college , where the exhibit was held . This exhibition was later shown in London . In 1956 he moved on to the Chelsea School of Art , and the following year to the Royal College of Art , where David Hockney was one of his students . In 1951 Rosoman painted a mural for the Festival of Britain on the South Bank in London and drew his first illustrations for the Radio Times . In 1958 he did the murals for the British Pavilion at the Brussels International Exhibition . Rosoman was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1960 and became a full academician in 1969 . He painted a mural at the restaurant in the Academys home , Burlington House , depicting scenes of life within and around the building . In 1988 he painted the ceiling of the chapel at Lambeth Palace . His work there consists of a series of panels with scenes from the lives of St Augustine , Thomas Becket and Matthew Parker , and a Christ in Glory . A retrospective exhibition of Rosomans war art was held at the Imperial War Museum in 1989 , before being shown in Edinburgh in 1990 . He received the OBE in 1981 . He was married twice . Further reading . - Michael Middleton , The Drawings of Leonard Rosoman , in Image ; 3 ( 1949–1950 ) , p . 3-22