‡ ANNE REDPATH, O.B.E., R.S.A., A.R.A., A.R.W.S. (1895-1965)

FLOWERS IN A WHITE VASE

watercolour

37.0 x 27.0cm / 181/2 x 141/2in

Redpath studied at Edinburgh College of Art under Robert Burns and Henry Lintott. In 1919 she was awarded a travelling scholarship, and she travelled throughout Europe visiting Brussels, Bruges, Paris, Florence and Vienna before returning to Scotland. She was profoundly influenced by the Siennese Primitives. She is regarded as one of the foremost figures of The Edinburgh School. She lived in France for a time before returning to Hawick in the mid-1930's. She was elected as an associated of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1947, and became the first woman to be elected a full member in 1952. She exhibited regularly at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Society of Scottish Artists and the Royal Glasgow Institute, and later at the Royal Academy from 1946. Redpath was awarded an O.B.E. in 1955 and was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1960. Redpath was commercially very succesful during her career with a number of exhibitions around the U.K., and enjoyed a consistent relationship with Aitken & Dott in Edinburgh, and with Reid & Lefevre in London. The present subject is typical of her work: "Cups, jugs, teapots, and flowers disconcertingly displayed on a tilting table-top became characteristic of her style. The pure and effortless quality of her painting, particularly in the handling of white, could make a collection of flowers lyrical, almost ethereal" (1) Bibliography: (1) Anne Redpath - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004, Ruth Jones