William Scott
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William Scott (1913 - 1989)
British painter. He was born at Greenock, Scotland, of Irish and Scottish parents and was brought up in Ulster. He studied at Belfast College of Art, 1928–31, and the *Royal Academy, 1931–5. In 1937–9 he lived in France (mainly Pont-Aven and St-Tropez) and he found a sense of kinship with a tradition of French still-life painting which linked Chardin in the 18th century with *Braque. His work continued to be based on still-life, but even when, for a time in the 1950s, he painted pure abstracts, he continued to relate what he did as a painter to that tradition. They featured forms such as circles and squares, but they were not geometrically exact and were bounded by sensitive painterly lines. In the late 1960s and 1970s his style became more austere.
Although his work was restricted in range and undemonstrative in character, Scott came to be regarded as one of the leading British artists of his generation. He won several awards, including first prize at the 1959 *John Moores Liverpool Exhibition. His work is represented in Tate and many other collections in Britain and elsewhere, and there is a large mural by him in Altnagelvin Hospital, Londonderry (1958–61). He lived mainly in London and Somerset.
Text source: A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art
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Treasure House Fair
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Treasure House Fair
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Masterpiece
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Drawn to Paper
Calder to Scott 2 Jul - 6 Aug 2021Paper is easily and variously marked. Charcoal and chalk scuff, smudge or slice; pen and ink dash, hatch and stipple; areas of colour shimmer in pastel, glow in gouache or...Read more -
British Art Fair
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British Art Fair
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1952-2007 17 May - 23 Jun 2016 Piano NobilePiano Nobile presents a selection of Post-War abstract art for sale, Modern British art for sale, in Aspects of Post-War Abstraction exhibition.Read more
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Collectors' Focus: Post-war British Abstraction
Apollo October 7, 2024Though less popular abroad than it once was, British art of the 1940s and ’50s is still highly sought after at home, writes Emma Crichton-Miller....Read more -
InSight No. 154
William Scott | Expanded August 9, 2024In abstract paintings made in the late fifties and sixties, William Scott proved himself an inventive maker of hieroglyphs. InSight No. 154 William Scott, Expanded,...Read more -
InSight No. 129
William Scott | Signs Orange and Ochre July 21, 2023Orange is variously claimed to be the colour of joy, dance, unconditional love, health, power, vitality and, most literally, fire. For the artist William Scott,...Read more -
InSight No. 18
William Scott | Three still-life paintings June 9, 2020Today, William Scott is widely known as a semi-abstract painter with Cornish connections. In the early 1950s, however, his artistic reputation was far from secure...Read more -
Jackie Wullschlager reviews Aspects of Abstraction
The Financial Times May 17, 2016Jackie Wullschlager at the Financial Times reviews Piano Nobile's exhibition Aspects of Abstraction 1952-2007Read more