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Sir William MacTaggart

William MacTaggart was born in Loanhead, Scotland in 1903, grandson of the painter William MacTaggart (1835–1910). He studied part-time at Edinburgh College of Art 1918-21. He began to take annual painting visits to the South of France in 1922, and in 1924 had his first one-man exhibition in the hall of St Andrew's Church, Cannes. In 1929 he had his first one-man exhibition in Scotland at Aitken Dott and Son in Edinburgh. In 1933 he was elected President of the Society of Scottish Artists, and in 1959 (until 1969) he was also President of the Royal Scottish Academy. In 1960 he became a trustee of the National Museum of Antiquities and in 1962 he was knighted. Finally, in 1965 he was made a Freeman of the Burgh of Loanhead and in 1968 he became ARA.

MacTaggart's post-impressionist landscape style owed much to the Scottish Colourists. Later however, in the 1930s, his style became more expressionistic under the influence of German and Norwegian art. His work developed further after he saw the 1952 Rouault Exhibition in Paris, the forms within his pictures merging into masses of glowing colour. MacTaggart has work in the collections of most Scottish public galleries and in the Arts Council and the Tate Gallery Britain's collections.

Sunset sold

Sunset,
Sir William MacTaggart

sold

Farmhouse in a Landscape,
Sir William MacTaggart

Wet Harvest,
Sir William MacTaggart

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