Target III (Sway)

Scope and Content

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Two running dogs and arrowed target.

Administrative / Biographical History

Born 10 August, 1938, in Elgin; Died 14 January, 2003, in hospital in St Andrews, aged 64. Brown was born in Elgin, studied at Duncan of Jordanstone, was a prizewinner of the Open Painting Exhibition of Northern Ireland in 1970, and gained numerous scholarships to study abroad, including the Netherlands and New York. He exhibited widely throughout the UK, Denmark, Germany, Italy and Switzerland and was one of the Twelve Scottish Painters toured by the Maine State Commission in the US in 1970. He held teaching posts at Duncan of Jordanstone and was, until his retirement, a lecturer in painting at Glasgow School of Art, where he taught, among others, Peter Howson and Joseph Stalin’s great-grandson, Yakov Dzhugashvili.

Acquisition Information

Neil Dallas Brown Trust, 14.02.2006.

Note

Born 10 August, 1938, in Elgin; Died 14 January, 2003, in hospital in St Andrews, aged 64. Brown was born in Elgin, studied at Duncan of Jordanstone, was a prizewinner of the Open Painting Exhibition of Northern Ireland in 1970, and gained numerous scholarships to study abroad, including the Netherlands and New York. He exhibited widely throughout the UK, Denmark, Germany, Italy and Switzerland and was one of the Twelve Scottish Painters toured by the Maine State Commission in the US in 1970. He held teaching posts at Duncan of Jordanstone and was, until his retirement, a lecturer in painting at Glasgow School of Art, where he taught, among others, Peter Howson and Joseph Stalin’s great-grandson, Yakov Dzhugashvili.

Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

oil on canvas
Dimensions: 1520 x 1580 mm

Additional Information

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