What is Peter Blake (artist)?
'''Sir Peter Thomas Blake''', [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (born 25 June 1932 in [[Dartford]], [[Kent]]) is an [[English people|English]] [[pop art]]ist, best known for his design of the sleeve for [[The Beatles]]' album ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]''. He lives in [[Chiswick]], [[London]], [[United Kingdom]]. During the late 1950s, Blake became one of the best known British pop artists.Blake was included in group expositions at the Institute of Contemporary and had his first solo exposition in 1960. It was the 'Young Contemporaries' exposition of 1961 where he was displayed next to David Hockney and R.b Kitaj that he was first identified with the young British Pop Art movement.Blake won the John Moores junior award (1961) for his work Self Portrait with Badges. == Other websites == {{Wikiquote|Peter Blake}} * [http://www.artandculture.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=1261 Peter Blake article in Art & Culture magazine] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060621183923/http://www.artandculture.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=1261 |date=2006-06-21 }} * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/2045522.stm June 2002 BBC article about Blake] {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Blake, Peter}} [[Category:1932 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:English artists]] [[Category:English painters]] [[Category:People from Dartford]]