William George Gillies - Wikipedia
WEBSir William George Gillies CBE RA (21 September 1898 – 15 April 1973) was a renowned Scottish landscape and still life painter. He is often referred to simply as W. G. Gillies.
William Gillies: a modernist resurgence - Art UK
WEBWilliam George Gillies (1898–1973) Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture. The conventional wisdom about Gillies has long been that he was a country painter who specialised in lyrical landscapes and saved his finest work for later, after he had given up the modernist diversions of his youth.
Sir William Gillies - National Galleries of Scotland
WEBGillies concentrated on landscapes and still lifes, and was particularly fond of depicting the Lothian, Fife and Border regions. Artworks. Born in Haddington near Edinburgh, Gillies studied at Edinburgh College of Art. After graduating, he taught there for more than forty years until his…
In search of the real William Gillies - Art UK
WEBSep 21, 2023 · William George Gillies (1898–1973) Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture. A key to Gillies' art is that he lived the first 50 years of his life beset by an existential crisis so great and so extended that it could destroy unless turned to …
Sir William George Gillies RA RSA (1898–1973) - John Gray Centre
WEBWilliam George Gillies was one of Scotland’s greatest 20th-century painters, working mainly in still-life and landscape depicting East Lothian, Fife and the Borders. William George Gillies was born in Haddington on 21 September 1898, the son of the High Street tobacconist John Gillies.
William Gillies: A Rebirth in Modernism - Royal Scottish Academy
WEBOutside his lifetime William Gillies: Modernism and Nation in British Art finally recognises his true stature and how he should be reinterpreted alongside the great British modernist painters of the twentieth century.
William Gillies - Overview | Royal Scottish Academy
WEBThroughout his career Gillies explored and developed different approaches to his painting, absorbing European modernism and redirecting it through an art that was intimately connected to his life.
Sir William George Gillies - Biography | Portland Gallery
WEBSir William George Gillies CBE RA was a renowned Scottish landscape and still life painter. Gillies studied at the Edinburgh Collect of Art which was interrupted from 1917 to 1919 by military service requirement.
Sir William Gillies 1898–1973 - Tate
WEBSir William George Gillies (21 September 1898 – 15 April 1973) was a renowned Scottish landscape and still life painter. He is often referred to simply as W. G. Gillies.
William George Gillies - CAS
WEBSir William George Gillies (21 September 1898 – 15 April 1973) was a renowned Scottish landscape and still life painter. He is often referred to simply as W. G. Gillies.
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