- Robert Colquhoun
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name = Robert Colquhoun
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caption = "Woman with a Young Goat", 1948
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location =Kilmarnock
deathdate = death date and age|1962|09|20|1914|12|20
deathplace =London
nationality = Scottish
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awards =Robert Colquhoun (20 Dec 1914 – 20 Sept 1962) was a Scottish painter,
printmaker and theatre set designer.Colquhoun was born in
Kilmarnock and was educated atKilmarnock Academy . He won ascholarship to study at theGlasgow School of Art , where he metRobert MacBryde with whom he established a lifelong friendship and collaboration, the pair becoming known as "the two Roberts". He joined MacBryde on a travelling scholarship toFrance andItaly from 1937 to 1939, before serving as an ambulance driver in theRoyal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War. After being injured, he returned toLondon in 1941 where he shared studio space with MacBryde. The pair shared a house with John Minton and, from 1943,Jankel Adler .Colquhoun's early works of agricultural labourers and workmen were strongly influenced by the colours and light of rural
Ayrshire . His work developed into a more austere, Expressionist style, heavily influenced by Picasso, and concentrated on the theme of the isolated, agonised figure. From the mid 1940s to the early 1950s he was considered one of the leading artists of his generation. He was also a prolific printmaker, producing a large number of lithographs and monotypes throughout his career.During and after the Second World War he worked with MacBryde on several set designs. These included sets for Gielgud's "
Macbeth ", "King Lear " at Stratford and Massine's Scottishballet "Donald of the Burthens", produced by the Sadler's Wells Ballet at Covent Garden in 1951.Robert Colquhoun died, an alcoholic, in relative obscurity in London in 1962.
External links
* [http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=932&page=1&sole=y&collab=y&attr=y&sort=default&tabview=bio Biography at the Tate Gallery]
* [http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/people/famousfirst1374.html Robert Colquhoun on the Gazeteer for Scotland]
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