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Description: | This collection was a bequest, in 1989, by Hope Montagu Douglas Scott. It comprises three groups of pictures, totalling ninety-nine works in all. The first group consists of five small paintings by internationally known artists, Picasso, Bonnard, Max Ernst, Van Dongen and Utrillo. Within the second group there are a number of works by Scottish artists which complement the University’s collection of modern Scottish art, including a small collection of works by Gillies and a fine late painting by Peploe. Also represented are Eardley and Donaldson as well as works on paper by Cadell and Davie.
The major part of the bequest, however, is a group of fifty-nine works by Scottish artist and friend of Hope Scott, William Johnstone. Hope Scott was the only daughter of Henry Johnston Younger of Harmeny, of the long established brewing dynasty. In 1918 she married Charles William Montagu Douglas Scott, a grandson of the 5th Duke of Buccleuch. She met William Johnstone at an exhibition of his work in Newcastle in 1969 and devoted most of the latter part of her collecting career to his works. William Johnstone grew up in the Scottish Borders, near Selkirk and studied at the Edinburgh College of Art. He moved to Paris in 1925 and in 1928, spent a year in California with his first wife, American sculptress Flora Macdonald. The influences of his Scottish roots and those he encountered on his travels, such as surrealism and abstract impressionism, are reflected in much of his work. | Subjects: | Surrealist Abstract Expressionist Fauve Scottish Artists Scottish Art Landscapes Fine Art Prints Drawings Oil paintings Abstract | Source: | University of Edinburgh | Address: | Old College, South Bridge,
EH8 9YL | Creator: | Hope Montagu Douglas Scott | Identifier: | http://hdl.handle.net/10683/317... | Go to resource |
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