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Guthrie Award
The Guthrie Award is awarded annually with few exceptions to at most two recipients by the Royal Scottish Academy and is one of the most prestigious art awards in Scotland. It is named after the artist James Guthrie (artist), James Guthrie. Foundation of award The award was founded in 1920. It was to commemorate the presidency of the Royal Scottish Academy by James Guthrie (artist), James Guthrie. It is awarded for the most outstanding work adjudged in the Royal Scottish Academy exhibition of the year to artists under the age of 35 (although the joint winner of the first award David Macbeth Sutherland was around 37 in 1920). Scottish-based It is usual for the award to go to a painting and its artist, but occasionally sculptures and sculptors have also won. In 2021 the award was won by the artist and film-maker Emily Beaney for an experimental documentary. The award is open to any nationality, but the exhibition participants must be based and active in Scotland. The 1994 winner J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Scottish Academy
The Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) is the country’s national academy of art. It promotes contemporary Scottish art. The Academy was founded in 1826 by eleven artists meeting in Edinburgh. Originally named the Scottish Academy, it became the Royal Scottish Academy on being granted a royal charter in 1838. The RSA maintains a unique position in the country as an independently funded institution led by eminent artists and architects to promote and support the creation, understanding, and enjoyment of visual arts through exhibitions and related educational events. Overview In addition to a continuous programme of exhibitions, the RSA also administers scholarships, awards, and residencies for artists who live and work in Scotland. The RSA's historic collection of important artworks and an extensive archive of related material chronicling art and architecture in Scotland over the last 180 years are housed in the National Museums Collection Centre at Granton, and are available to r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alister Maitland
Alister Maitland (22 April 1910 – 10 August 1995) was a Scottish painter, born in Govan, Scotland.The Dictionary of Scottish Painters. 1600 to the present. Paul Harris and Julian Halsby. Canongate Publishing. 1990. He won the Guthrie Award in 1932 with his work, the painting ''Alice Ann''. Alice Ann was the name of Maitland's mother. Life Alister Maitland was born in Govan in 1910, before the village was annexed by Glasgow in 1912. His parents were James Maitland (c. 1870 - 1933) and Alice Ann Kimmins (13 March 1869 - 25 August 1960). They had married on 17 December 1891 in Govan. They had 3 sons Alister and James Alfred and Alfred Horatio; and 1 daughter Elizabeth Jessie (1 October 1894 - 17 May 1989). Elizabeth was the eldest and at the time she was born the family stayed at 83 Queen Street in Govan. Alfred Horatio was born in 1906 in Edinburgh; James Alfred was born in 1899 in Ardrossan, but unfortunately died not long after birth, the death record showing a zero age. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Stewart Cameron
Gordon Stewart Cameron (27 April 1916 – 1 April 1994) was a Scottish people, Scottish painter, born in Aberdeen, Scotland. He won the Guthrie Award in 1944 with his work, the painting ''Boy With Apple''. Life Gordon Stewart Cameron was born in 1916 at 56 Forest Avenue, Aberdeen. His parents were John Roderick Cameron (5 June 1881 - 1943), a commercial traveller, and Hilda Mary Stewart (1886 - 1954). They married on 19 August 1911. Gordon was one of their 3 sons, the others being Alan (1921 - 4 January 1995) and Douglas. He married the artist Ellen Malcolm (1923 - 2002) in 1962. Art He was educated at Robert Gordon's College in Aberdeen. He went to Gray's School of Art. He studied under James Cowie and Robert Sivell with David Macbeth Sutherland as principal. Also at the Art School was Alberto Morocco, who became a great friend and delivered his eulogy at his funeral. At the Art School he won the Davidson Gold Medal, the Brough Scholarship, and the SED Travelling Scholarshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Gibson (artist)
Colin Gibson (5 November 1907 – 7 April 1998) was a Scottish painter, born in Arbroath, Scotland. He won the Guthrie Award in 1943 with his work, the painting ''Lisbeth''. Lisbeth was the name of his wife. He was also a noted journalist, writing largely about nature and also his local Angus area. Life Colin Gibson was born in 1907. His parents were Colin Gibson, a missionary, and Euphemia Sophia Axworthy (1879 - 8 February 1954). They had married in 1903 in Arbroath. They had two sons Colin, and his elder brother William Axworthy Gibson (1904 - 1979). He was Art medallist at Arbroath High School. While still at High School he wrote nature notes for the Arbroath Guide and drew football cartoons for the Arbroath Herald. He worked in journalism, writing for the People's Friend and wrote nature diaries in the Dundee Courier. Gibson loved nature and visited the island of Rona, near Skye in 1933–34 to study the flora and fauna. He married Elizabeth Jarvis Lawrence (1911 - 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Morrocco
Alberto Morrocco (14 December 1917 – 10 March 1998) was a Scottish artist and teacher. He is famous for his works featuring landscapes of Scotland and abroad, still-life, figure painting and interiors, but perhaps his best known works are his beach scenes and views of Venice. Early life Morrocco was born in Aberdeen in 1917, the son of Italian immigrants, Domenic Antonio Marrocco and Celesta Crolla. His father had an ice cream shop in the city and the signwriter accidentally wrote the name as Morrocco and the name then stuck. Education He studied at Gray's School of Art under Robert Sivell between 1932 and 1938, and in France, Italy and Switzerland. He is famous for his landscape paintings of Scotland and abroad, still life, figure painting and interiors, but perhaps his best known works are his beach scenes and views of Venice. Inspirations The avant-garde of the twenties and thirties, in particular Braque and Picasso, had an immense influence on him for the rest of hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Davie
James Alan Davie (28 September 1920 – 5 April 2014) was a Scottish painter and musician. Biography Davie was born in Grangemouth, Scotland in 1920, the son of Elizabeth (née Turnbull) and James William Davie, an art teacher and painter who exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1925. Alan Davie studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1937 to 1941. An early exhibition of his work came through the Society of Scottish Artists. After the Second World War, Davie played tenor saxophone in the Tommy Sampson Orchestra, which was based in Edinburgh and broadcast and toured in Europe. He also earned a living making jewellery during the postwar period. Davie travelled widely and in Venice became influenced by other painters of the period, such as Paul Klee, Jackson Pollock and Joan Miró, as well as by a wide range of cultural symbols. In particular, his painting style owes much to his affinity with Zen. Having read Eugen Herrigel's book ''Zen in the Art of Archery'' (195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Donaldson (artist)
David Abercrombie Donaldson (1916–1996) was a 20th century Scottish artist who served as official Painter and Limner to Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland, an ancient title of the Scottish Court. Life Donaldson was born in Chryston in Lanarkshire in 1916 but raised in Coatbridge, where his family worked in the rolling mills. He attended Coatdyke Primary School and was raised in the Baptist Church. He studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1932–37 and won the Director’s Prize in 1936. He was awarded the Glasgow School of Art Haldane Travelling Scholarship in 1937 and went abroad for the first time in his life to visit Paris and Florence. When Donaldson returned to Glasgow he undertook another year of study at Glasgow School of Art, the equivalent of a post-graduate year awarded to outstanding students on completion of their diploma. The Empire Exhibition of 1938 was held in Glasgow’s Bellahouston Park. Scotland’s schools of art were employed to decorate pavilions and D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Sutherland
Scott Sutherland (15 May 1910 – 10 October 1984) was a Scottish sculptor, best known for the Commando Memorial in Spean Bridge. He was Head of Sculpture at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Life Scott Sutherland was born in 1910, the son of David Sutherland, headmaster of West Banks School in Wick, Caithness and his wife Helen Ann Alan Scott and grew up there. Scott's father was also an officer in the Highland Division and saw active service on the Western Front from 1915 to 1918. After the end of the war, he was appointed headmaster of Wick Academy, a post which he retained until he retired in 1938. As a young man Scott was recognised as an able violinist, and he continued to play throughout his life. He studied at Grays School of Art from 1928 to 1929 and at Edinburgh College of Art from 1929 to 1933 under the supervision of Alexander Carrick, for whom he had a lifelong respect. He was a keen amateur boxer, and he frequently chose to portray sporting activities in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Drummond Bone
William Drummond Bone (20 November 1907 – 16 November 1979) was a Scottish painter, born in Ayr. He won the Guthrie Award in 1939 with his work, the oil painting ''Leisure''. Life William Drummond Bone was born in 1907 at 19 Fort Street, Ayr. His father was James Bone (c. 1880 - 16 July 1953), a saddler, his mother Mary Bennett (born c. 1882). They had married on 15 June 1904. Muirhead Bone, another Scottish artist, is related to William Drummond Bone. William Drummond Bone's paternal grandfather was William Bone (6 March 1841 - 20 March 1917). This William Bone's brother was David Drummond Bone (c. 1841 - 24 October 1911). David Drummond Bone's son was Muirhead Bone. William Drummond Bone's father James Bone (c. 1880 - 16 July 1953) and Muirhead Bone (23 March 1876 – 21 October 1953) were cousins; Muirhead Bone and William Drummond Bone were first cousins once removed. William Drummond Bone married Helen Docherty in 1933. They had a son James Drummond Bone in 1934, kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Fleming (artist)
Ian Fleming (19 November 1906 – 24 July 1994) was a Scottish painter, born in Glasgow. He won the Guthrie Award in 1938 with his work ''The Painters: McBryde and Colquhoun''. The painting is now at the Glasgow School of Art. Life Ian Fleming was born in Glasgow as John Fleming, though he was always known as Ian. His parents were John Fleming (died 1939) a painter and decorator, and Catherine McLean (died 1970). Catherine was from Tiree and was a Gaelic speaker. Fleming went to Church Street Primary School and then Hyndland Secondary School before going on to the Glasgow School of Art. Fleming married Catherine Weetch in 1943. They had 3 children. Fleming studied at Jordanhill Teacher Training College; then taught at Glasgow School of Art. During the Second World War he was first a reserve policeman in Glasgow; and then joined the Pioneer Corps in their thrust from Normandy to Germany. He was demobbed in 1946 as Acting-Major. Fleming re-joined the Glasgow School of Art in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Nicol Neill Armour
Dr Mary Nicol Neill Armour LLD, née Steel, (27 March 1902 – 5 July 2000) was a Scottish landscape and still life painter, art teacher and an Honorary President of the Glasgow School of Art and the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. Biography Mary Nicol Steel was born on 27 March 1902 at Blantyre, Scotland to Jabina Gilbert and William Steel, a steel worker. She was the eldest of six children. As a young girl she initially wanted to train to become a teacher. She won a scholarship to Hamilton Academy and attended between 1914 and 1920. She drew the attention of an art teacher, Penelope Beaton (1886–1963), who was later to become Head of the Junior Department, Edinburgh School of Art. Beaton became a role model for the young Mary and she persuaded her Armour's father to allow her to enrol at Glasgow School of Art, where she studied from 1920 until 1925. After a post-diploma year and teacher training, Armour became an art teacher working in Glasgow and Cambuslang.< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander George Oliphant
Alexander George Oliphant (2 May 1911 – 18 November 1971) was a Scottish painter, born in Grangemouth, Scotland. He won the Guthrie Award in 1936 with his work, the oil painting ''David Kerr Esq.'' In his later life he switched to illustrating comic books, working on the Eagle comic. Life Alexander George Oliphant was born in 1911 in Grangemouth. His father was Bill Oliphant (5 January 1880 - 14 June 1951), his mother Ethel Maude Chipperfield (8 July 1890 - c. October 1967). Alexander was one of their two children; the other was William Oliphant (17 January 1916 - 25 October 1989). He married Thora Clee (1911 - 21 February 1968) in April 1947. Thora was from King's Norton in Worcestershire previously married to William L. Goldsmith. From at least 1945 he was in London staying at 30 Bedford Chambers, Piazza. In 1948 he moved to 9 Graham Terrace in Westminster, then in 1949 moved to 23 St. George's Court, Brompton Road, South Kensington. He had a studio at 4 Cavaye Studios, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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