William Scott
dal 25/1/2013 al 5/5/2013
Segnalato da
25/1/2013
William Scott
Tate St Ives, St Ives (Cornwall)
Exhibiting in America and Europe from the early 1950s, Scott is renowned for his powerful handling of paint in his exploration of still life, landscape and nude, and of the unstable boundaries between them. A series of thematic rooms are focused on Scott's morphological shifts between genres.
The project is led by Sara Matson, Curator at Tate St Ives with Chris Stephens, Lead Curator of Modern British Art at Tate Britain, Frances Guy, Head of Collection & Exhibitions at The Hepworth Wakefield and Anne Stewart, Curator of Fine Art at the Ulster Museum.
February 2013 marks the centenary of the birth of William Scott (1913–1989). Across a career spanning six decades, Scott produced an extraordinary body of work that has secured his reputation as one of the leading British painters of his generation. Exhibiting in America and Europe from the early 1950s, Scott is renowned for his powerful handling of paint in his exploration of still life, landscape and nude, and of the unstable boundaries between them. This will be the first major showing of the artist in theUK for over 20 years.
To mark the achievements of this internationally acclaimed modern painter, Tate St Ives, in association with The Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire and Ulster Museum, Belfast, is planning an important retrospective exhibition. Beginning at Tate St Ives with a series of thematic rooms (focusing on Scott’s morphological shifts between genres and his preoccupation with ‘significant forms’) the exhibition will evolve as it travels to The Hepworth Wakefield, before expanding into a survey exhibition at Ulster Museum, Belfast.
In collaboration with the William Scott Estate, which is currently finalising a catalogue raisonné of the artist’s paintings (due December 2012), the works will be drawn from major collections across the UK and Ireland.
A new book on William Scott by Sarah Whitfield is published by Tate to mark the centenary and exhibition. This will be followed by a catalogue of the exhibition produced in collaboration with the William Scott Foundation, encapsulating the tour, in its final manifestation in Belfast.
Image: Ochre Still Life, 1958, Oil paint on canvas. Support: 864 x 1118 mm frame: 909 x 1165 x 70 mm © The estate of William Scott
For further information on the exhibition and for images, please contact Arwen Fitch: 01736 792185 arwen.fitch@tate.org.uk
Tate St Ives
Porthmeor Beach St Ives Cornwall TR26 1TG United Kingdom
Opening hours:
March–October daily 10.00–17.20, last admission 17.00.
November–February, Tuesday–Sunday 10.00–16.20, last admission 16.00
Admission: £6.50; £3.90 concessions; free to 18s and under and Members