Scottie Wilson
ARTIST: Scottie Wilson (1888-1972) Scottish
TITLE: “Head Study Surrounded By Wildlife”
SIGNED: lower right
MEDIUM: Pen & ink
SIZE: 28cm x 24cm inc frame
CONDITION: excellent
PRICE: £sold
DETAIL: Primitive artist, born in Glasgow, real name Louis Freeman, also known as Robert Wilson. Wilson liked to keep some mystery about his origins and exact date of birth, of which there are several versions. His parents emigrated from Lithuania and Scottie left school at nine to help his family survive by selling patent medicines in the street. Ran away at 16 and joined the Army, serving in India and South Africa. After a period in Scotland again, he went to Canada from about 1930, where he stayed 14 years, initially running an unsuccessful second-hand furniture business. When his first drawings sold well at the Picture Loan Society, Toronto, in 1943 at a one-man show, he returned to England in 1945 and had a one-man exhibition at the Arcade Gallery in that year. In 1947 was represented in a Surrealist show at the Galerie Maeght, Paris; was also shown in Basle, Switzerland, and in New York. Showed with Brook Street Gallery and Ben Uri Gallery, London. In 1965 designed dinner, tea and coffee services for the Royal Worcester Porcelain Company. Also designed tapestries for the Aubusson workshop in France and for the Edinburgh Weavers’ Association. The Tate Gallery, London, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, and Museum of Modern Art, New York, hold his work which consisted of coloured drawings, watercolours and decorated plates, with repeated motifs such as faces, birds and fishes. Died in London. Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, organised Scottie Wilson and Outsider Art in 2003.
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