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William Scott 1913-1989 (BAA 1946-56) Born in Greenock, Scotland. 1924 family moved to Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. Studied Belfast College of Art with scholarship from home town. 1931 Royal Academy Schools, first studied sculpture, 1934 transferred to painting. 1936 spent six months in Mousehole, Cornwall. 1937 married Mary Lucas. fellow student at RA. 1937-38 travelled in Italy; they set up Pont Aven School of Painting Spring 1938; exhibited Paris October same year; September 1939 left France for Dublin; 1940 returned to London. 1941 moved to Hallatrow, Somerset; showed painting to Clifford Ellis at Bath Art School who gave him part-time teaching job there. September 1942 one-man exhibition Leger Galleries. Joined Army (Royal Engineers), transferred to Ordinance Section, Ruabon, Wales where other artists, designers, printers were making maps; met Henry Cliffe. 1945 Soldiers’ Verse, published by Frederick Muller, with lithographs by Scott; shared exhibition with Mary Scott, Leger Galleries. Appointed Senior Paintings Master, Bath Academy of Art (until 1956). Spent summers in Mousehole, Cornwall from 1948 where met Wynter, Lanyon, Frost and Nicholson. Exhibited Sixty Paintings for ‘5I Festival of Britain; studio in London 1952; 1953 (to 1969) first exhibited Hanover Gallery: 1954 included in Nine Abstract Artists, by Lawrence Alloway. 1955 exhibited Small Contemporary Paintings Lithographs and Pottery, Willis Galleries, Bath, with other colleagues from BAA; 1958 exhibition Venice Biennale; 1963 Artist in Residence, Ford Foundation, Berlin. 1965 moved to Coleford, retrospective Tate Gallery. 1974 first of several exhibitions at Gimpel Fils; 1977 elected RA. 1985 Every Picture Tells a Story, film Channel Four (James Scott). 1985 Retrospective Ulster Museum, Belfast (touring exhibition). William Scott: Works from the Scott Collection |
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