ELIZABETH BLACKADDER Decades 19 February – 19 March 2015
Monday - Friday 10 - 5.30 Saturday 11 - 2.00
Browse & Darby
19 Cork Street London W1S 3LP Tel: 020 7734 7984 Fax: 020 7851 6650 email: art@browseanddarby.co.uk www.browseanddarby.co.uk
1931 1949-54 1956 1961 1962 1962-86 1972 1976 1982 1983 1985 1987 1988 2001 2003
ELIZABETH BLACKADDER
Born Falkirk, Scotland Studied Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art, MA Hons Fine Art Married John Houston Elected Member of Society of Scottish Artists Elected Member of The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours Guthrie Award, Royal Scottish Academy Lecturer in drawing and painting, Edinburgh College of Art Elected Member of The Royal Scottish Academy Elected Member of The Royal Academy Awarded O.B.E. Elected Member of The Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts Pimms Award for Work on Paper, Royal Academy First visit to Japan Portrait of Mollie Hunter commissioned by The Scottish National Portrait Gallery Portrait of Naomi Mitchison purchased by National Portrait Gallery, London Watercolour Foundation joint winner Royal Academy Appointed Her Majesty’s Painter and Limner in Scotland Awarded D.B.E.
Selected solo exhibitions 1961-1998 The Scottish Gallery, Aitken Dott, Edinburgh 1964-1999 Mercury Gallery, London 1980-82 Scottish Arts Council Retrospective Touring Exhibition: Edinburgh, Sheffield, Aberdeen, Liverpool, Cardiff, London 1982 Theo Waddington Gallery, Toronto 1983, 86 Lillian Heidenberg Gallery, New York 1989 Welsh Arts Council Retrospective Touring Exhibition: Aberystwyth, Brighton, Bangor, Cardiff, Bath, Lancaster 1990 Abbot Hall, Kendal 1999 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 2000 Joined Browse & Darby, London 2001 University of Edinburgh, Talbot Rice Gallery, Festival Exhibition 2002, 04, 06, 10, 15 Browse & Darby, London 2011-12 National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh 2011-12 Park Gallery, Falkirk 2013 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Public collections Aberdeen Art Gallery Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal Bolton Central Museum and Art Gallery Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery Dundee Museum and Art Gallery Edinburgh City Art Centre Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery Government Art Collection Hove Museum and Art Gallery Huddersfield Art Gallery Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery McNay Art Museum, San Antonio Middlesbrough Art Gallery Museum of Modern Art, New York National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC National Portrait Gallery, London
Paisley Art Gallery Perth Museum and Art Gallery Reading Museum and Art Gallery Robert Fleming Holdings Royal Bank of Scotland Royal Edinburgh Hospital Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Scottish Arts Council Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Scottish National Portrait Gallery Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery Tate Gallery, London University of Cambridge, Kettle’s Yard University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow, Hunterian Art Gallery University of St Andrews University of Stirling West Riding County Museum Wustun Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
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Catalogue 1.
Church at Aegina, 1954 watercolour on paper, 11 x 17 1/2 inches
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Crabs and lobster, 2010 oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches
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Still life with silk scarf, 1968 oil on canvas, 40 x 44 inches
Still life with dragon fruit and oysters, 2010 oil on canvas, 24 x 30 3/4 inches
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Still life with boxes, red ground, 1972 oil on canvas, 60 x 56 inches
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Still life: pink table with necklace, 1972 watercolour on paper, 26 x 39 1/3 inches
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Dogs and magpies in a garden, 1974 oil on canvas, 37 x 36 inches
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Still life with persimmon, oriental tiger card, box and vegetable oil on canvasboard, 11 x 16 inches
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Still life with chequered box, 1974 oil on canvas, 30 x 30 inches
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Small blue still life with ceramic fig, 2010 oil on canvas, 8 x 17 3/4 inches
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The yellow table, 1976 oil on canvas, 30 x 48 inches
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Blue poppy and other flowers, 2010 watercolour on paper, 22 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches
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Orchids and bananas, 1985 watercolour on paper, 40 x 27 inches
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Irises, 2011 watercolour on paper, 22 1/2 x 30 inches
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Blue orchid vanda chiengmai, blue viboon, 1994 watercolour on paper, 30 x 22 1/2 inches
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Tulips and crown imperial, 2011 watercolour on paper, 27 1/2 x 22 3/4 inches
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Still life with cherry bark, 1995 oil on canvas, 60 x 60 inches
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Orchid with seed heads and leaves, 2014 watercolour on paper, 29 x 21 5/8 inches
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Still life with gladioli, 1997 oil on canvas, 44 x 44 inches
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Poppies and irises, c.2014 watercolour on paper, 23 1/4 x 31 1/2 inches
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Melon, lacquer dish and Egyptian card, c.2000 oil on canvas, 16 x 30 inches
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Dragon fruit and fennel watercolour on paper, 12 x 19 3/4 inches
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Little plant, roscoea humeana, 2008 oil on canvas, 16 x 12 inches
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Gladioli watercolour on paper, 22 x 30 3/4 inches
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Pale anemones, 2008 watercolour on paper, 22 1/2 x 30 inches
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Still life with leaves watercolour on paper, 27 x 40 inches
Gloves and dragon fruit, 2010 oil on canvas, 16 x 18 inches
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