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Michael Ayrton

Painter, sculptor, book illustrator, and art critic, born in London, UK. His early painting falls into the wartime English neo-Romantic movement. In 1954 he took up sculpture and began treating subjects from Classical mythology. His fascination with the legend of the minotaur led to his building of a maze in brick and stone in the Catskill Mountains, NY.

17 November, 1975), was an English artist and writer, known as a painter, printmaker and sculptor, and also as a critic, broadcaster and novelist. He was a stage and costume designer, working with John Minton on the 1942 John Gielgud production of Macbeth from age 19; and a book designer and illustrator, for Wyndham Lewis's The Human Age trilogy and William Golding.

He was born in London, his parents being Gerald Gould and Barbara Ayrton;

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