Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1942
J. Leger & Son, London, Paintings by William Scott, 9 - 30 September
1945
J. Leger & Son, London, Water-Colour Drawings by William Scott, 3 - 23 February
1948
Leicester Galleries, London, The Recent Paintings of William Scott, October
1951
Leicester Galleries, London, Recent Paintings by William Scott, 1 - 22 February
1953
The Hanover Gallery, William Scott, 3 June - 3 July
1956
The Hanover Gallery, London, William Scott Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture,
25 September - 26 October
1959
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, William Scott Recent Paintings, 24 March - 18 April
Galleria Blu, Milan, William Scott, May - June
Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zurich, William Scott, 11 November - 12 December
1960
Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, William Scott, 2 June - 17 July (and subsequent tour)
1961
Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, William Scott, January
The Hanover Gallery, London, William Scott, 17 May - 17 June
1962
The Hanover Gallery, London, W.Scott 20 Gouaches of 1952, 2 May - 1 June
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, William Scott 1952 - 1962, 25 September - 20 October
1963
The Hanover Gallery, London, William Scott Recent Paintings, June - 6 July
Ulster Museum, Belfast, William Scott, 12 September - 5 October
Galerie Anderson-Mayer, Paris, William Scott, 29 October - 22 November
1965
The Hanover Gallery, London, William Scott Recent Paintings, 28 September - 22 October
1966
Galerie Gimpel & Hanover, Zurich, William Scott Neue Bilder und Aquarelle,
25 March - 26 April
1967
The Dawson Gallery, Dublin, William Scott Exhibition of Oil Paintings, 19 January - 7 February
The Hanover Gallery, London, W. Scott Paintings 1967, 17 October - 10 November
1969
The Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, William Scott.
Edinburgh Festival exhibition of new gouaches, 22 August - 13 September
The Hanover Gallery, London, William Scott 24 Paintings on Paper, 6 November - 6 December
1971
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, William Scott Drawings of Still-lifes and Nudes, 5 - 27 June
1972
The Dawson Gallery, Dublin, William Scott Gouaches,
19 April - 5 May
Tate Gallery, London, William Scott Paintings, Drawings and Gouaches 1938-71,
19 April - 29 May
Galleria Falchi Arte Moderna, Milan, William Scott, October
1973
Lister Gallery, Perth, William Scott 15 Gouaches Australia 1973
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, William Scott,
3 January - 10 February
Gallery Moos, Toronto, An exhibition of new paintings by William Scott,
13 October - 1 November
1974
Galerie Gimpel & Hanover, Zurich, William Scott Neue Bilder / Recent Paintings,
9 March - 13 April
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, William Scott Recent Works Drawings, Paintings & Prints,
14 June - 3 August
Gimpel Fils, London, William Scott Recent paintings, 3 - 28 September
1975
Gallery Moos, Toronto, William Scott Exhibition of Drawings 1956-1974, 5 - 24 April
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, William Scott, 28 October - 7 December
1976
Gimpel Fils, London, William Scott New Gouaches & Collages, 25 May - 26 June
Galerie Angst-Orny, Munich, William Scott Gouaches, 8 January - 14 February
Gallery Kasahara, Osaka, William Scott, 16 January - 7 February
1977
The Dawson Gallery, Dublin, William Scott Twelve Recent Paintings, 9 - 23 July
Gallery Kasahara, Osaka, William Scott, 28 November - 17 December
1978
Galleria Lorenzelli, Bergamo, W. Scott, February
Gimpel Fils, London, William Scott Permutations, 23 May - 24 June
Gallery Moos, Toronto, William Scott, 7 - 25 October
1979
Fermanagh County Museum, Enniskillen, William Scott Still Life Paintings 1946-1978,
9 May - 14 July (and subsequent tour)
1980
Gimpel Fils, London, Poem for a Jug, 20 may - 21 June
Gallery Kasahara, Osaka, William Scott, 13 - 31 October
1981
Imperial War Museum, London, William Scott War Paintings 1942-46, 11 February - 1 March
1983
Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, New York, William Scott, 26 April - 28 May
1984
Gimpel Fils, London, William Scott Drawings, 29 November - 19 January 1985
1985
Gimpel Fils, London, ‘Every Picture Tells a Story’, 26 Feb - 30 March
1986
Ulster Museum, Belfast, William Scott, 13 June - 16 November (and subsequent tour)
1987
On the Wall Gallery, Belfast, William Scott Works on Paper, 4 - 21 November
(also at Taylor Galleries, Dublin, 4 - 19 December)
Gimpel Fils, London, William Scott Paintings 1953-1986, 19 May - 20 June
1988
Berkeley Square Gallery, London, William Scott Retrospective, 26 September - 15 October
Curwen Gallery, London, William Scott Works on Paper, 8 September - 1 October
1990
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, William Scott, September
1991
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, William Scott, 5 - 30 October
1992
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, William Scott Paintings on paper and canvas, 1 - 25 April
David Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York, William Scott Memorial Exhibition,
26 September - 31 October
1995
Coram Gallery, London, William Scott RA (1913-1989)Works on paper, 6 July - 4 August
1996
Kerling Gallery, Dublin, William Scott, 11 October - 9 November
1998
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, William Scott Paintings and Drawings,
22 July - 1 November
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, William Scott, 9 October - 2 November
Charleston Gallery, Lewes, William Scott Early Paintings, 6 September - 1 November
1999
Annandale Galleries, Sydney, William Scott Paintings and Drawings, 11 may - 12 June
2000
Beaux Arts, London, William Scott, 12 April - 20 May
2004
Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, William Scott: works from the Scott Collection,
8 April - 5 June
Selected Group Exhibitions
1936
Royal Academy of Arts, London,
The exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, 1936 : the one hundred and sixty-eighth, summer
1938
Salon d’Automne, Paris, L'Art Anglais Contemporain au Salon d'Automne
1940
Leicester Galleries, London, Artists of Fame and Promise, summer
1942
Leicester Galleries, London, New Year Exhibition Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, January
Leicester Galleries, London, Artists of Fame and Promise, July - August
J. Leger & Son, London, The London Group Fourth War-Time Exhibition,
7 October - 7 November
1943
Leicester Galleries, London, New Year Exhibition Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture,
January and February
Wallace Collection, Hertford House, London, Artists Aid China exhibition, April
Leicester Galleries, London, Artists of Fame and Promise, July - August
J. Leger & Son, London, Exhibition of 'Nudes' by Contemporary Artists,
30 September - 30 October
1944
J. Leger & Son, London, Exhibition of Modern Paintings, 21 April - 30 May
1945
The Leger Galleries, London, WaterColours and Drawings by William & Mary Scott,
4 - 29 December
1946
Arts Council of Great Britain, Four Young British Painters – Ayrton, Minton, Scott, Vaughan
Roland,Browse and Delbanco Gallery, London, Currents of Post Impressionism in France and England
Leicester Galleries, London, Artists of Fame and Promise, July - August
1947
Leicester Galleries, London, New Year Exhibition Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, January
Leicester Galleries, London, Artists of Fame and Promise, July - August
1947 - 1948
British Council touring exhibition (shown in Athens, Prague, Paris, Marseilles and Rome), Modern British Paintings 1942 - 1947
1948
The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Forty Years of Modern Art 1907 - 1947
A Selection from British Collections, 10 Feb - 6 March
Arts Council of Great Britain, Contemporary Flower Painting
1949
Leicester Galleries, London, Artists of Fame and Promise, July
New Burlington Galleries, Contemporary British Art from the collections of the Arts Council and the British Council, November - December
1950
Leicester Galleries, London, From Gainsborough to Hitchens A Selection of Paintings and Drawings from the Howard Bliss Collection, January
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Painters' Progress, 12 May - 15 July
Tate Gallery, London, The Private Collector. An exhibition of Pictures and Sculpture selected from the members of the Contemporary Art Society's own collections, 23 March - 23 April
1951
Arts Council of Great Britain, 60 Paintings for ’51 (Festival of Britain exhibition shown at R.B.A. Galleries, London; City Art Gallery, Manchester; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle;
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool)
The Vancouver Art Gallery, 21 Modern British Painters (and subsequent tour. Arranged by the British Council)
The Redfern Gallery, London, Summer Exhibition
New Burlington Galleries, London, The London Group. Contemporary Drawing Painting and Sculpture, November
1952
Arts Council of Great Britain, Three Young Collectors
The London Group, Annual Exhibition, 25 October – 22 November
1953
The Hanover Gallery, London, Space in Colour (Paintings selected by Patrick Heron), 7 July - 7 August
Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, Portraits by Contemporary British Artists, April - May
1953 - 1954
Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Il Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo: Ceri Richards, William Scott, William Gear, Merlyn Evans, Patrick Heron, December 1953 - February 1954
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Younger European Painters, 2 Dec 1953 - 21 Feb 1954 (and subsequent tour)
1954
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, British Painting and Sculpture, 23 September - 31 October
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, Three British Artists: Hepworth, Bacon and Scott,
12 October - 6 November
1955
The Redfern Gallery, London, 9 Abstract Artists, 11 - 29 January
Museum of Modern Art, New York, The New Decade: 22 European Painters and Sculptors,
10 May - 7 August (and subsequent tour)
The Hanover Gallery, London, Bacon, Scott, Sutherland, 28 June - 29 July
Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Documenta I. Kunst des XX. Jahrhunderts,
15 July - 18 September
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, The 1955 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, 13 October - 18 December
1956
Tate Gallery, London (Contemporary Art Society), The Seasons, March - April
Kunstforeningen I København, Copenhagen, Britisk Kunst 1900–1955, 10 April - 29 April
The Redfern Gallery, London, Abstract, Cubist, Formalist, Sur-Realist, 13 April - 8 May
Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, Critic's Choice (Herbert Read), 11 September - 6 October
Wakefield City Art Gallery, Vision and Reality. An exhibition of contemporary painting and sculpture, 28 September - 27 October
1957
New York Art Foundation, Rome, Nuove Tendenze Dell'Arte Inglese
Tate Gallery London, An exhibition of paintings from The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 16 April - 26 May
The Arts Club of Chicago, Young British Painters,
25 October - 3 December (and subsequent tour)
1958
British Pavilion, XXIX Biennale, Venice, William Scott, Kenneth Armitage and S.W. Hayter (and subsequent tour)
1958 - 1959
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, The John Moores Liverpool Exhibition,
10 November 1958 - 11 January 1959
1959
Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Documenta II: Kunst nach 1945, 11 July - 11 October
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Inaugural Exhibition Selection, October
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2nd John Moores Liverpool Exhibition
1960
Gallery Moos, Toronto, 4 Internationals: Appel, Scott, Hepworth, Tàpies,
20 February - 9 March
The Waddington Galleries, London, Aspects. Frost, Heath, Heron, Hilton, Scott, Vaughan, Wells, Wynter. An exhibition of various media on Paper, 27 October - 19 November
Pushkin Museum, Moscow, British Painting 1700–1950
Museu de Arte Moderna, Buenos Aires, 1st International Modern Art Exhibition
1961
Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, VI Bienal.
Peter Lanyon, William Scott, Lynn Chadwick, Merlyn Evans
Castle Museum, Norwich, Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, 7 - 31 December
1962
Galerie Municipale des Arts, Tunis, 9th International Exhibition, 13 June - 26 June
The Hanover Gallery, London, Seven British Painters, 5 - 29 September
Stedelijk van Abbe-museum, Eindhoven, Kompass 2, 21 October - 9 December
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Primitives to Picasso
1963
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, The Marzotto Prize Exhibition, 7 March- 4 April
Tate Gallery, London, British Painting in the Sixties, 1 - 30 June
Kunsthalle, Berne, Victor Pasmore, William Scott, 12 July - 18 August
Galerie Gimpel-Hanover, Zurich, Englische Maler und Bildhauer, 30 August - 28 September
1964
Tate Gallery, London, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 54:64
Paintings and Sculpture of a Decade, 23 April - 28 June
Alte Galerie, Kassel, Documenta III, 27 June to 5 October
1965
Arts Council of Great Britain (shown in Bath and touring), Corsham Painters and Sculptors
Galleria Lorenzelli, Milan, Maestri Inglesi Moderni Bacon, Nicholson, Pasmore, Scott, Sutherland, October
1966
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, European Drawings, February - March
1967
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, "In Our View": Some paintings and sculpture bought by Hans & Elsbeth Juda between 1931-1967, May - June
Tate Gallery, London, Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Collection. Recent British Painting, 15 November - 22 December
1969
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, The Aubrey Gibson Collection, 28 July - 17 September
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, Contemporary Art - Acquisitions 1966-1969
1970 - 1971
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., British Painting and Sculpture, 1960–1970,
12 November 1970 - 3 January 1971
1971
Marlborough Fine Art, London, Variations on a Theme of Titian: The Death of Actaeon, June
Municipal Gallery, Dublin, The Irish Imagination 1959-1971, 23 October - 31 December (and on subsequent tour in the USA)
1973
Northern Irish Arts Council, Belfast, A Teacher and Two Pupils: Kathleen Bridle, William Scott and Terence Flanagan
University of Maryland Art Gallery, The Private Collection of Martha Jackson, 22 June - 30 September (and on subsequent tour)
1974
Tate Gallery, London, British Painting ’74
1975
University Art Gallery, Albany, Selections from the Martha Jackson Gallery Collection,
16 February - 30 March
Salon 29e, Paris, Realités Nouvelles, 31 May - 22 June 1975
Falchi Arte Moderna, Milan, Group Exhibition, December
1975 - 1976
Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Irish Art 1900–1950, 1 December 1975 - 31 January 1976
1976
National Gallery of Art, Dublin, Irish Exhibition of Living Art, 3 - 30 September
1977
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Real Life, 2 June - 6 September
Royal Academy of Arts, London, British Painting 1952 - 1977, 24 September - 20 November
New Art Centre, London, Cornwall 1945-1955, 9 November - 3 December
1979
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, John Hultbert and William Scott Paintings & Drawings,
29 September - 27 October
1980
Hayward Gallery, London, Hayward Annual selected by John Hoyland, 29 Aug - 12 Oct
1983
Museo Municipal, Madrid, Pintura Britanica Contemporanea, April - May
1985
Leeds City Art Gallery, The Irresistible Object, Still Life 1600–1985
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Summer Exhibition
1986
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Summer Exhibition
1987
Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, L’Art en Europe 1946 –1956
1989 - 1990
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, The Presence of Painting;
Aspects of British Abstraction 1957–1988, 26 November 1989 - 15 January 1990
1990 - 1991
Hirschl & Adler, New York, The British Imagination: Twentieth Century Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, 10 November 1990 - 12 January 1991
1992
Adelson Galleries, Inc., New York, The Poetic Trace. Aspects of British Abstraction since 1945, 12 May - 30 June
1998
Beaux Arts, London, Mixed Exhibition: Frost, Hepworth, Heron, Hilton, Lanyon and Scott
1999
Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, A rebours: la rebellion informalista – the informal rebellion
[1939 – 1968]
2000
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Selected Works from the McClelland Collection,
19 September - January 2001
2001
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, The Language of Things, 13 January - 11 March
2002 - 2003
Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany, Blast to Freeze: Britische Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert,
14 September 2002 - 5 January 2003
City Arts Centre, Edinburgh, The Public Eye: Fifty years of the Arts Council Collection,
21 December 2002 - 22 February 2003
2004
Musée de Pont-Aven, France, Peinters britanniques en Bretagne, 26 June - 27 September
2004 - 2005
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, An Art-Accustomed Eye - John Gibbs and art appreciation in Wales 1945-1996, 18 September 2004 – 16 January 2005
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, The Hunter Gatherer - The Collection of George and Maura McClelland at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, 18 November 2004 - 28 March 2005
2006
Hayward Gallery, London, How to Improve the World 60 Years of British Art,
7 September - 19 November
2006 - 2007
Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, Consider the Lilies: Selected Works from Dundee's 20th Century Art Collection, 28 October - 14 Jan 2007
(then at The Fleming Collection, London, 25 Jan - 5 April 2007)
2007
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Treasures from the North - Irish Paintings from the Ulster Museum, 14 March - 16 September