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John Keith Vaughan (23 August 1912 – 4 November 1977) was an English painter and writer. He abandoned a career in advertising in 1939 to pursue painting. As a younger generation Neo-Romantic he was heavily influenced by Graham Sutherland, Henry Moore and William Blake but also by Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse and Nicolas De Staël during the 1950s. He was essentially a painter of figure compositions that attempted to balance male nudes with abstract environments. His remarkable journal (1939–77), inspired by André Gide, reveals the tension in his life and work between intellectual puritanism and unrepressed sensuality. His work can be regarded as an expression of his feelings about the male body. Despite considerable success, including the award of a CBE in 1965, he became increasingly melancholic and reclusive.