ARTIST

Kyffin Williams

1918–2006 · United Kingdom

ABOUT

Sir John Kyffin Williams, (9 May 1918 – 1 September 2006) was a Welsh landscape painter who lived at Pwllfanogl, Llanfairpwll, on the Island of Anglesey. Williams is widely regarded as the defining artist of Wales during the 20th century. == Personal life == Williams was born in Llangefni, Anglesey, one of two sons into an old landed Anglesey family. His father was a bank manager. Williams wrote that his mother was an emotionally repressed woman who had a virulent dislike of…

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NOTABLE WORKS
Portrait of a Boy 1944 · UCL Art Museum Portrait of a Grey-Haired Woman 1943 · UCL Art Museum Conservatory, Highgate (Athlone House) 1944 · National Library of Wales Horses and Riders 1945 · National Library of Wales An Officer of the Royal Welch Fusiliers 1945 · National Library of Wales Sunflowers with Mountains Beyond 1945 · National Library of Wales
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