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in 1956, with a design symbolizing modern science. Other notable works, including a 'Stations of the Cross' for Brede parish church, followed. Throughout the 1960s
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in 1966, he was knighted in 1967. Monnington was the first president of the academy to produce abstract art and was highly effective in the role doing much to restore the academy's ailing fortunes. He served as president until his death in London on 7 January 1976.
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died in 1947 and he married Evelyn Janet later the same year. He produced little new work until 1953 when he began a three-year commission to paint a fresco in
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