Craigie Aitchison
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Crucifixion with Angels, 1960
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Alan McNaught with Bird, 1970
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Baker's Egg, 1974
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Boy Seated with Crucifixion, 1985
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Crucifixion 8, 1985-86
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View Through Doorway, Montecastelli, 2003
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Dog in Red Painting, 1974-75
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Crucifixion VII, 1963, c.
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Butterflies in a Landscape, 1964
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Crucifixion VII, 1967-68
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Pear Still Life, 1971
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Brittany Hen, 2009
Craigie Aitchison (1926 - 2009)
Craigie Aitchison was born in Edinburgh in 1926, and studied Law at Edinburgh University (1944-46) and then at the Middle Temple in London in 1948. He changed career in 1950, returning to Edinburgh to practice painting before studying at the Slade School of Fine Art (1952-54) under William Coldstream and Robert Medley, and alongside Paula Rego and Euan Uglow. In 1955 Aitchison was awarded the British Council Italian Government Scholarship for painting and travelled to Italy, which had a profound influence upon his work. His first solo exhibition was at the Beaux Arts Gallery in London in 1959, and he continued on to have significant retrospectives at the Serpentine Gallery in 1981, at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow in 1996 and at the Royal Academy in London in 2003. In 1994 he won the first ever Jerwood Painting Prize and won the Nordstern Art Prize in 2000. He was elected an Associate Member of the Royal Academy of Art in 1978 and a Senior Member in 1988, and he was made a CBE in 1999. He died in 2009.
Aitchison is particularly well known for his still-lifes, landscapes, nudes, portraits, dogs, and his idiosyncratic crucifixions and, alongside this subject matter, for his distinctive style consisting of simplistic, flat, stylised forms constructed through areas of thinly applied, yet pure and luminous colour. Uniting British Romanticism with an inheritance from the Italian Renaissance of interest in the relationship between line and colour, light and dark, subject and landscape setting, Aitchison produces work of powerful naiveté. Examples of Aitchison's religious paintings include a Crucifixion loaned to King's College Chapel since 1994 and Cavalry (1996-98) commissioned by Liverpool Cathedral. Aitchison also collaborated with Glyndebourne Opera House, decorating the Gallery Stalls in 2005 and producing various programme covers and prints alongside contributors such as David Hockney, Mary Fedden and Sir Hugh Casson.
Piano Nobile represents The Estate of Craigie Aitchison.
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Craigie Aitchison
and THE BEAUX ARTS GENERATION Susan Campbell, 2019Softback, 152 pagesRead more
Publisher: Piano Nobile Publications
ISBN: 978-1-901192-55-1
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Risen! Art of the Crucifixion and Eastertide
Foreword by Sister Wendy Beckett, 2013Sewn paperback, 60 pagesRead more
Publisher: Monnow Valley Arts
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Modern British Masters
Dr Robert Travers, 1995Softback, 40 pagesRead more
Publisher: Piano Nobile Publications
Dimensions: 29 x 34 x 0.5
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And the Beaux Arts Generation 14 Nov 2019 - 29 Jan 2020 Piano NobileIt was 1952 when a soft-spoken Scotsman entered the Slade School of Fine Art. Accompanied by his beagle named Somerset, he attended on a part-time basis at first. Few could...Read more -
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InSight No. 118
Craigie Aitchison | Crucifixion with Angels February 9, 2023Despite his Christian upbringing, Craigie Aitchison cared less for religion than he did for art. His use of Christian imagery drew upon the art of...Read more -
InSight No.94
Craigie Aitchison | Butterflies in a Landscape, 1964 December 20, 2021Piano Nobile is pleased to represent the Estate of Craigie Aitchison, a remarkable artist who often achieved perfection through simplicity. When Butterflies in a Landscape...Read more -
InSight No. 85
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ES Magazine features Craigie Aitchison and the Beaux Arts Generation
November 15, 2019ES Magazine has featured Piano Nobile's new exhibition CRAIGIE AITCHISON and THE BEAUX ARTS GENERATION. The magazine is the weekly cultural supplement of The Evening...Read more