Anne Redpath
Painted the ordinary table, the tilted chair and the Spanish church in thick unmixed colour.
Anne Redpath was born at Galashiels in 1895, the daughter of a tweed designer, and trained at Edinburgh College of Art. She married an architect, lived in France for fourteen years and painted almost nothing while raising three sons, then returned to the Borders in 1934 and began again in her forties. The Indian Rug, a still life seen from above with the table tipped up towards the viewer, is the picture that established the manner: everyday objects, boldly simplified, in thick paint and strong colour. Later travels produced the Spanish, Corsican and Venetian church interiors. She was the first woman elected a full Royal Scottish Academician, and died in 1965.
Oils are unique and are often on board rather than canvas, painted with a heavily loaded brush and a knife, so the impasto is structural and chips at the edges. Still lifes and the church interiors are the subjects most asked for. There is also a substantial body of watercolours and gouaches. Signature is normally a plain Anne Redpath, and dating is often absent, so exhibition labels and Scottish gallery provenance carry the identification. The work is well documented in the Scottish literature.
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