Raymond James Coxon, LG, ARCA (Lond) (1896-1997) was a well-known landscape painter and lithographer, mural decorator and writer.  He was born at Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent and served in the Army in the Middle East during World War I.  Coxon studied art at Leeds School of Art 1919-21 and at the Royal College of Art 1921-25.  He married the painter Edna Ginesi in 1926 with his friend Henry Moore acting as his best man.  Coxon exhibited with the London Group, becoming a member in 1931.  His first solo show was with the Cooling Galleries in London 1928. Coxon was appointed an Official War Artist during World War 11.  After the end of the war Coxon’s work became more abstract.  A major retrospective show was held in 1987 at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery.  His work is represented in many public collections including The Tate Gallery, The British Museum, Imperial War Museum, The Hepworth at Wakefield, The Courtauld Institute, Leeds Art Gallery and Manchester Art Gallery.  He had studios in London and at Rowfant in West Sussex.  The sale of his studio collection was held at Bonhams, auctioneers, in May 2001.