William Scott CBE RA (15 February 1913 – 28 December 1989) was a Northern Irish artist, known for still-life and abstract painting. He is the most internationally celebrated of 20th-century Ulster painters.[1] His early life was the subject of the film Every Picture Tells a Story, made by his son James Scott.[2]

William Scott
William Scott in 1959 (during a visit by Mark Rothko photo by James Scott)
Born	(1913-02-15)February 15, 1913 Greenock, Scotland
Died	December 28, 1989(1989-12-28) (aged 76) Coleford, Somerset, England
Known for	Painting
Movement	Abstract
Awards	Commander of the Order of the British Empire Royal Academician

Exhibitions

Scott represented Britain in 1958 at the Venice Biennale. He exhibited at the Hanover Gallery in London, at the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York, Italy, Switzerland, West Germany, France, the Kasahara Gallery in Japan, Canada and Australia, at the Dawson Gallery, Dublin,[3] as well as Belfast.[4] Retrospectives of his work were held at the Tate Gallery, London in 1972, in Edinburgh, Dublin and Belfast in 1986, by the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin in 1998[1] and the Jerwood Gallery in 2013.[5]

Selected works

• Still Life With Orange Note (1970), Oil on canvas, Arts Council of Northern Ireland collection
• Cornish Harbour (1951), Lithograph, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa collection
• Fish (1951), Lithograph, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa collection
• Portrait of a girl (1948), Lithograph, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa collection
• Girl Seated at a Table (1938), formerly owned by David Bowie[6]

References

External links

• Official website
• 83 artworks by or after William Scott at the Art UK site
• Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections

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