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Still Life With Orange Note (1970)
William Scott (b.1913, Greenock, Scotland, d.1989, Bath, England)
Oil on Canvas
H: 167, W: 172 cms
William Scott is the most internationally celebrated of 20th century Ulster painters. Born of Scots-Irish parents he was brought to Enniskillen, his father’s native town in 1924. Scott’s father, a housepainter and signwriter died in 1927. While at school in Enniskillen, Scott was taught by Kathleen Bridle. He went to Belfast College of Art in 1928 and in 1931 went to the Royal Academy Schools in London. After his marriage in 1937 he lived abroad, mostly in France. From 1941 until 1956 Scott was senior lecturer in painting at the Bath Academy of Art. He visited the USA and met Jackson Pollock, de Kooning, Kline and Rothko. Essentially a still life painter, Scott’s work underwent a radical reduction in relation to colour and form and he was greatly influenced by his contact with the American Abstract Expressionists. A retrospective of his work was held at the Tate Gallery, London in 1972 and in 1998 a major retrospective was organised by the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
