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Recently found on the reverse side of one of Ellen Chudy’s childhood drawings, is a sketch to a very early David Chudy painting. Ellen’s early drawings – which included a few final attempts to produce artworks circa 1940 were scanned for an upcoming memorial when this was noticed. David and Ellen were together prior to…

The of a tiny damaged print of David Chudy from the early days in Northern Rhodesia, which I scanned and recovered set up a new train of thought.. The first was the total incongruity of this image to anyone who knew him -in the sense that David Chudy never showed the slightest interest in hunting…

A scan of this amazing 97 page catalog was only recently brought to my attention. It is surprising not only in the story it tells of the inception of the National Gallery, but it also evidences a rare undocumented public showing of a work by David Chudy. David Chudy could not have been in more…

David Chudy was a close friend of ‘Patterson of Cyrene’ since the early 50s. Edward “Ned” Paterson (1895–1974) was a pioneering art teacher in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He is known for founding Cyrene School near Bulawayo, and for introducing the Arts and Crafts style to Africans in both South Africa and Rhodesia. Some of his students were among the first professional African artists in…

Read the article on the ARTFORUM website https://www.artforum.com/events/percy-zvomuya-david-chudy-national-gallery-of-zimbabwe-2024-559765/

This is youtube of a recent ‘Harare Conversations’ meetup, devoted to David Chudy (1916-1967) – Celebrating an Enduring Artistic Legacy. It features Philip Chudy (son of) who participated from the San Francisco Bay Area as well as a range of other guests. Because not all participants had good video connections the Zoom video was demoted…

A friend sent me a copy of this photo quoting source, that featured David Chudy (my father). He asked if I knew about it. The photo he referred to was shot by Ilo Battigelli (Ilo the Pirate) in 1957 and is in the Kariba archive, at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, I said that I did not…

This video was created to play on a large screen TV at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, sans any sound track or commentary. It expressly excluded any art which was actually featured in the show- thus extending the offering dramatically as well as providing a moderately accurate time sequential journey through the artist’s life. Most…

David Chudy flew 800 km (500 miles) in a small plane to create a clay bust of King Mwanawina Lewanika III of Barotseland in the early 60’s, clearly intended for bronze casting. That much is evident, but with no one alive to give follow up answers, a big mystery still persists about this whole production…

This post is prompted by the discovery of some light hearted drawings by artist Max Piron. With no further references to to samples of any other art, this post serves mostly as context to art (or the lack of it ) the ‘early day’s’ on the Copperbelt. At the same time, he seems to have…

This following, recently unearthed, undated news clipping, which presumably was from the early 1950’s mentioned Ivan Mitford-Barberton at the end of the text Wikipedia page for Ivan Mitford-Barberton As David Chudy’s son I had never heard this name mentioned – so it comes as some surprise to see reference of David Chudy as ‘having made…

Received a brief video of the David Chudy retrospective being hung in the main gallery space at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Harare.

Many thanks to Rob Burrett of the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe for assistance in identifying locations and subjects in many of the recently salvaged series of early David Chudy negatives. At first I assumed that all of these large formal negatives were show pre 1947 images shot on the Copperbelt in what is now…

Contact: [email protected] +1 415 203 3030FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Global Premiere of ‘Renaissance Man: A David Chudy Retrospective’opening at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in June, 2024 This major exhibition features over 250 historically significant paintings, sculptures and photographs by polymath, David Chudy. The collection has never been seen publicly.  Chudy’s work delivers us to the…