William Scott CBE RA (1913-1989)
British Artist
The author of this family history is Cardwell McClure, son of Mary McClure, née Scott, the younger sister of renowned artist William Scott CBE, RA. Cardwell remembers how his mother told him that William, when a teenager, would get his younger sister to sit for him lacking any other willing members of the family. …
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The works, including a William Scott painting, will go on display in February 2020 The donation has been made through the Government’s Cultural Gifts Scheme A sculpture by Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975), a sculpture by Denis Mitchell (1912-1993) and a painting by William Scott CBE RA (1913-1989) have been acquired for the nation through the …
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5 – 21 September 2019 Dellasposa is pleased to present Modern Mavericks, an exhibition that explores the work of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse and the indelible mark they left upon British modernism through the artists Patrick Heron, Terry Frost, Patrick Caulfield, and William Scott. Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse stood at the heart of modernism …
After several years of research the William Scott Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings was published in 2013 by the William Scott Foundation and Thames & Hudson. Over the course of his career William Scott painted more than one thousand works in oil, all of which have been catalogued in this comprehensive and lavishly illustrated publication. A …
1970 February On 25 February, Mark Rothko killed himself in his New York studio. May On 28 May, Scott attended the opening of the Rothko Room at the Tate in which nine paintings presented by Rothko to the gallery were put on display on Millbank (they now hang in Tate Modern). The works had arrived …
Monographs Alley, Ronald, William Scott (London: Methuen, 1963) Bowness, Alan, William Scott: Paintings (London: Lund Humphries, 1964) Lynton, Norbert, William Scott (London: Thames & Hudson, 2004) Whitfield, Sarah (ed.), William Scott Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings (London: Thames & Hudson, 2013) Statements by the Artist Alloway, Lawrence, Nine Abstract Artists: Their Work and Theory (London: Tiranti, 1954) Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff (ed.), The …
1960 May Scott was included in a survey exhibition of British painting from 1720 to 1960, organised by the British Council, which opened at the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, on 4 May. The following month it was shown at the Hermitage in Leningrad (now St Petersburg). June William Scott opened at the Kestner-Gesellschaft in Hannover on …
1950 January From Gainsborough to Hitchens: A Selection of Paintings and Drawings from the Howard Bliss Collection opened at the Leicester Galleries on 5 January (closed 2 February). Howard Bliss was an important collector of Scott’s paintings, seven of which were included in the show. March The Private Collector: An Exhibition of Pictures and Sculpture Selected …
1913 15 February William George Scott was born at 24 Tobago Street, Greenock, in the county of Renfrew, on the southern bank of the Firth of Clyde in Scotland. His father, William John Scott, came from Killymard in Co. Donegal, Ireland; his mother, Agnes Murray, from Glasgow. By the time Scott was born, they already had …
19 June – 8 October 2017 This major summer exhibition will explore artists’ connections to the coastal landscape and how this is reflected in their work. Featured work from the Bishop Otter Collection will include Alfred Wallis’ Boat, c.1930), Christopher Wood’s Tréboul Harbour, c.1930, William Scott’s Harbour, 1950 or 1951,