William Scott CBE RA (1913-1989)
British Artist
Stories behind Portsmouth’s collections of art and design.
What do a Turner watercolour, a 13th century cosmetic jar and a gramophone painted by Dora Carrington have in common? Continue reading “A Hard Choice”
Welcome to the William Scott Archive blog!
The William Scott Archive includes photographs, sketchbooks, diaries, letters, papers, artworks, objects and artefacts relating to the artist William Scott RA. It is a rich resource which reveals much, not only about Scott but also about his contemporaries and 20th century art in general. Continue reading “Archive Blog – February 2015”
William Scott’s Blues, 1981 hanging in the Merrion Hotel, Dublin is on the front cover of the Irish Times magazine.
In November 1934, the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas moved from his home town of Swansea to London, sharing a room with his childhood friend, Alfred Janes. Thomas quickly became assimilated within Janes’ circle of friends, one of whom was William Scott (Janes, like Scott, was a student at the Royal Academy Schools). Continue reading “Centenary of the Birth of Dylan Thomas”
Time Out asked leading artists, gallery owners, curators and critics to pick the best paintings to be seen in the capital with three William Scott’s works selected. Continue reading “William Scott’s works in top 100 London paintings”
Sir John Soane’s Museum presents Face to Face: British Portrait Prints from the Clifford Chance Art Collection, an exploration into the development of portraiture by British printmakers in the 20th and the first decade of the 21st Century. Continue reading “Face to Face: British Portraits from the Clifford Chance Art Collection”
The 45 foot long mural painted by William Scott in 1959-1961 for the Altnagelvin Hospital is currently on display in the New Art New Nature – Irish and International Art 1945 – 2014 exhibition at Ulster Museum, Belfast until Summer 2015. Continue reading “The Altnagevin mural now on show at the Ulster Museum”
10 September 2014 – 18 February 2015The exhibition British Invasionshowcases the Bechtler’s holdings of artwork created by British artists such as William Scott, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Bridget Riley. Works include lithographs, drawings, sculpture and paintings. Continue reading “British Invasion at the Bechtler”
Frances Spalding discusses the modern ‘cool’ of Lund Humphries’ 1964 monograph on William Scott, edited and introduced by Alan Bowness, with contributions from Michel Ragon and Werner Schmalenbach and reflects on the cementing of the artist’s style in the preceding decade. Continue reading “Lund Humphries Landmarks – William Scott: Paintings”
Recently, members of the Guggenheim Museum’s Library and Archives and Department of Photographic Services worked together to digitize select scrapbooks created by Peggy Guggenheim. Continue reading “Digitizing Peggy Guggenheim’s Scrapbooks”