12th Sep, 2024 10:00
The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction
JAMES HARDIE (SCOTTISH 1938 - 2024)
UNTITLED
oil on board, signed
framed
image size 61cm x 84cm, overall size 68cm x 91cm
Note: James Hardie was born in 1938. having studied at Glasgow School of Art in the 1950’s he won the Keith Award (1958), the Chalmers Bursary (1959), which enabled him to travel Holland and France, The Torrance Award (1968) and First Prize in Arbroath Art Festival (1971). He taught painting at Glasgow School of Art and Aberdeen College of Education, and lectured in art at Glasgow University and was the exchange tutor with the Chicago Institute of Art. Influenced by his love of flying and drawing on the landscapes of his native Firth of Clyde area, his manipulation of abstraction is much admired. He is widely collected and has had one man shows with the Compass Gallery in Glasgow, The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh and The Charles Jahn Gallery in Chicago amongst others. His works are held in numerous public collections including the Scottish Arts Council, Stirling, Strathclyde, Leicester, Liverpool and Stockholm Universities, and the Aberdeen City Art Gallery. His daughter, New York based Gwen Hardie, is the youngest artist ever to be awarded a solo show at The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, Scotland (1990).
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