Anne Redpath OBE ARA RSA 1895-1965
Born in the Scottish Borders in 1895, Redpath studied at Edinburgh College of Art in 1913. A post-graduate study led to a scholarship, which allowed her to travel around Europe and the Mediterranean, visiting Bruges, Paris, Florence and Siena. It was here that she developed a modern approach to achieving different textures in her surfaces even scraping the canvas with a small piece of chain-mail that she kept in her studio.
In 1950, Redpath moved to Edinburgh from her native Borders. Still life painting was particularly important to her at that time and almost half of her exhibits were flowers in vases and jugs or potted plants on table-tops. Writing about Redpath's work in 1965, Terence Mullaly noted that 'pinks and greys, mauve and lilacs are colours which she commands. Equally remarkable is Anne Redpath's use of white. I have now for several years lived with a large still life by her which is in effect a study in white. It is a picture of beauty; handled with boldness, indeed bravura. It combines to a degree today rare decisive use of paint, an uninhibited delight in its qualities, and a respect for the thing seen.'
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Art & Design
1950 - 2000 26 Apr - 1 Jun 2024The Fine Art Society presents an exhibition of paintings, prints textiles and objects from 1950 to 2000 including a group of textiles by Trinidad-born designer Althea McNish, produced by Heal's...Read more -
Hang 4 //
Modern Scottish Pictures 1 - 19 Sep 2020Celebrating the variety of 20th century Scottish Art, this selection of works captures modern perspectives of Scottish identity. In the face of global societal and technological change, the artists’ focus...Read more -
A History in Small Pictures
31 Jul - 29 Aug 2020A survey of Scottish art over three centuries. Diminutive paintings by, amongst others, John Clerk of Eldin, Sir David Wilkie, Alexander Nasmyth, Sir Henry Raeburn, Sam Bough, John MacWhirter, E...Read more -
Hang 3 //
Scottish Painting 1950-1980 19 Mar - 25 Apr 2020The decades following WW2 saw artists take new forms of artistic expression. The order and rationalism that had preceded was rejected. Painting became more gestural and instinctive; this was achieved...Read more -
Modern Paintings 1940-1985
24 Nov - 23 Dec 2017Modern Scottish Paintings 1940-1985, was exhibition of works created by Scottish artists in a period that emphasised individualism and rebellion against perceived safety and mundanity in the art that preceded...Read more -
Anne Redpath
12 Paintings 6 - 28 Jun 2014Anne Redpath is one of the best loved and most important Scottish painters of the twentieth century. She was a personality of starkly contrasting stripes: an intellectual who painted the...Read more -
Scottish Pictures of the Twentieth Century
15 Feb - 16 Mar 2013With work by E A Hornel, Sir D Y Cameron, S J Peploe, Anne Redpath, Sir William Gillies, A R Sturrock, William Wilson, Sir W O Hutchison, Alberto Morrocco, Robert...Read more -
Twelve Scottish Paintings
22 Jun - 21 Jul 2012Twelve paintings by Scottish artists spanning three centuries of art history. With work by Allan Ramsay, Jacob More, Sir David Wilkie, Alexander Fraser Snr, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Sam Bough,...Read more -
Harvey to Houston
Scottish Painting 20 May - 18 Jun 2011This exhibition included work by a number of important names in Scottish Art from the nineteenth and twentieth century; from the genre painter Sir George Harvey to the work of...Read more
