John Piper (artist)

==Exhibitions==
The Tate collection holds 180 of Piper's works, including [[etching]]s and some earlier abstractions. Other collections holding Piper's work include the [[Art Institute of Chicago]], [[Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery]], [[Dallas Museum of Art]], [[National Galleries of Scotland]], [[Beaverbrook Art Gallery]], [[Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum]], [[Cleveland Museum of Art]], [[Currier Gallery of Art]], [[Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden]], [[Indianapolis Museum of Art]], [[Manchester City Art Gallery]], Norwich Museums, [[Pallant House Gallery]], [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]], [[Southampton City Art Gallery]], [[The Hepworth Wakefield]], [[The Priseman Seabrook Collection]], the Usher Gallery in Lincoln, [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] and [[Winnipeg Art Gallery]].

Major retrospective exhibitions have been held at [[Tate Britain]] (1983–84),<ref>David Fraser Jenkins, ''John Piper'', London: [[Tate Gallery]] Publications, 1983 ({{ISBN|0-905005-94-5}})</ref> the [[Dulwich Picture Gallery]],<ref>David Fraser Jenkins, & Frances Spalding, ''John Piper in the 1930s – Abstraction on the Beach'', Merrell Publishers, 2003 ({{ISBN|1-85894-223-3}}).</ref> the [[Imperial War Museum]],<ref>David Fraser Jenkins, ''John Piper – The Forties'', Philip Wilson Publishers, 2000 ({{ISBN|0-85667-529-6}}).</ref> the [[River and Rowing Museum]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rrm.co.uk/piper/ |title=John Piper – Master of Diversity |access-date=25 April 2017|url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010422122016/http://www.rrm.co.uk/piper/ |archive-date=22 April 2001 }} exhibition, [[River and Rowing Museum]], 2000.</ref><ref>Jane Bowen (curator), ''John Piper Centenary: Crossing Boundaries'', 2002 ({{ISBN|0-9535571-4-6}}).</ref> [[Museum of Reading]] and [[Dorchester Abbey]]. In 2012 an exhibition, ''John Piper and the Church'', curated by Patricia Jordan Evans of Bohun Gallery, examined his relationship with the Church and his contribution to the development of modern art within churches.<ref>[http://johnpiperandthechurch.co.uk "John Piper and the Church"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518020022/http://johnpiperandthechurch.co.uk/ |date=18 May 2013 }}, Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire, 21 April - 10 June 2012. A celebration of HM The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee by The Friends of Dorchester Abbey.</ref> In 2016, the [[Pallant House Gallery]] mounted an exhibition entitled ''John Piper: The Fabric of Modernism'' which focused on Piper's textile designs,<ref name=fabric/> while 2017/ 2018 saw [[Tate Liverpool]] and Mead Gallery at [[Warwick Arts Centre]] mount a joint exhibition focusing on Piper's early career, with an emphasis on the 1930s and 1940s.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.whatsonlive.co.uk/search/news/major-john-piper-exhibition-opens-at-mead-gallery/40817|work=Birmingham What's On|title=Major John Piper exhibition opens at Mead Gallery|year=2018|access-date= 26 April 2018}}</ref> The River and Rowing Museum at [[Henley-on-Thames]] maintains a gallery dedicated to Piper.<ref name="NPatel"/>