Richard Vicary
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Richard Vicary was a British
United Kingdom
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 artist
Artist
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 and printmaker.

He was born in Sutton
Sutton, London
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, Surrey
Surrey
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, UK on 8 July 1918

He studied at Tunbridge Wells School of Art and Medway School of Art (Maidstone), where he stayed until the start of the war in 1939.

Much of his teaching career was spent at Shrewsbury School of Art, where he taught until 1972.

He died on 8 August 2006 aged 88.

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