Gordon Onslow-Ford
1912–2003
Introduction
A Surrealist painter. Upon moving to Paris in the late 1930s, Ford became interested in Surrealism and soon became an official member of the Surrealist group. He later moved to New York where he lectured on Surrealism and organized a number of exhibitions of Surrealist art, influencing Abtract Expressionist artists. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art held a retrospective of his work in 1948 and the Oakland Museum staged another in 1978. His work can be found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Tate Britain, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Country of birth
United Kingdom
Roles
Artist, curator, painter
ULAN identifier
500020355
Names
Gordon Onslow-Ford, Gordon Onslow Ford, Gordon Onslow- Ford, Gordon Max Onslow-Ford
Information from the Getty Research Institute's Union List of Artist Names ® (ULAN), made available under the ODC Attribution License. Accessed December 20, 2025.
