Cover: No.26 Gladioli, (detail)

ELIZABETHBLACKADDER

Decades

19 February – 19 March 2015

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1931 Born Falkirk, Scotland1949-54 Studied Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art, MA Hons Fine Art1956 Married John Houston Elected Member of Society of Scottish Artists1961 Elected Member of The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours1962 Guthrie Award, Royal Scottish Academy1962-86 Lecturer in drawing and painting, Edinburgh College of Art1972 Elected Member of The Royal Scottish Academy1976 Elected Member of The Royal Academy1982 Awarded O.B.E.1983 Elected Member of The Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts Pimms Award for Work on Paper, Royal Academy1985 First visit to Japan1987 Portrait of Mollie Hunter commissioned by The Scottish National Portrait Gallery Portrait of Naomi Mitchison purchased by National Portrait Gallery, London1988 Watercolour Foundation joint winner Royal Academy2001 Appointed Her Majesty’s Painter and Limner in Scotland2003 Awarded D.B.E.

Selected solo exhibitions

1961-1998 The Scottish Gallery, Aitken Dott, Edinburgh1964-1999 Mercury Gallery, London1980-82 Scottish Arts Council Retrospective Touring Exhibition: Edinburgh, Sheffield, Aberdeen, Liverpool, Cardiff, London1982 Theo Waddington Gallery, Toronto1983, 86 Lillian Heidenberg Gallery, New York1989 Welsh Arts Council Retrospective Touring Exhibition: Aberystwyth, Brighton, Bangor, Cardiff, Bath, Lancaster1990 Abbot Hall, Kendal1999 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh2000 Joined Browse & Darby, London2001 University of Edinburgh, Talbot Rice Gallery, Festival Exhibition2002, 04, 06, 10, 15 Browse & Darby, London 2011-12 National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh2011-12 Park Gallery, Falkirk2013 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh

Public collections

Aberdeen Art Gallery Paisley Art GalleryAbbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal Perth Museum and Art GalleryBolton Central Museum and Art Gallery Reading Museum and Art GalleryCarlisle Museum and Art Gallery Robert Fleming HoldingsDoncaster Museum and Art Gallery Royal Bank of ScotlandDundee Museum and Art Gallery Royal Edinburgh HospitalEdinburgh City Art Centre Royal Scottish Academy, EdinburghEastbourne, Towner Art Gallery Scottish Arts CouncilGlasgow Museum and Art Gallery Scottish National Gallery of Modern ArtGovernment Art Collection Scottish National Portrait GalleryHove Museum and Art Gallery Sheffield, Graves Art GalleryHuddersfield Art Gallery Tate Gallery, LondonKirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery University of Cambridge, Kettle’s YardMcNay Art Museum, San Antonio University of EdinburghMiddlesbrough Art Gallery University of Glasgow, Hunterian Art GalleryMuseum of Modern Art, New York University of St AndrewsNational Museum of Women in the Arts, University of StirlingWashington DC West Riding County MuseumNational Portrait Gallery, London Wustun Museum, Racine, Wisconsin

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Catalogue

1. Church at Aegina, 1954 watercolour on paper, 11 x 17 1/2 inches

2. Still life with silk scarf, 1968 oil on canvas, 40 x 44 inches

3. Still life with boxes, red ground, 1972 oil on canvas, 60 x 56 inches

4. Still life: pink table with necklace, 1972 watercolour on paper, 26 x 39 1/3 inches

5. Dogs and magpies in a garden, 1974 oil on canvas, 37 x 36 inches

6. Still life with chequered box, 1974 oil on canvas, 30 x 30 inches

7. The yellow table, 1976 oil on canvas, 30 x 48 inches

8. Orchids and banana leaves, 1985 watercolour on paper, 40 x 27 inches

9. Blue orchid vanda chiengmai, blue viboon, 1994 watercolour on paper, 30 x 22 1/2 inches

10. Still life with cherry bark, 1995 oil on canvas, 60 x 60 inches

11. Still life with gladioli, 1997 oil on canvas, 44 x 44 inches

12. Melon, lacquer dish and Egyptian card, c.2000 oil on canvas, 16 x 30 inches

13. Little plant, roscoea humeana, 2008 oil on canvas, 16 x 12 inches

14. Pale anemones, 2008 watercolour on paper, 22 1/2 x 30 inches

15. Crabs and lobster, 2010 oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches

16. Still life with dragon fruit and oysters, 2010 oil on canvas, 24 x 30 3/4 inches 17. Gloves and dragon fruit, 2010 oil on canvas, 16 x 18 inches

18. Still life with persimmon, oriental tiger card, box and vegetable oil on canvasboard, 11 x 16 inches

19. Small blue still life with ceramic fig, 2010 oil on canvas, 8 x 17 3/4 inches

20. Blue poppy and other flowers, 2010 watercolour on paper, 22 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches

21. Irises, 2011 watercolour on paper, 22 1/2 x 30 inches

22. Tulips and crown imperial, 2011 watercolour on paper, 27 1/2 x 22 3/4 inches

23. Orchid with seed heads and leaves, 2014 watercolour on paper, 29 x 21 5/8 inches

24. Poppies and irises, 2014 watercolour on paper, 23 1/4 x 31 1/2 inches

25. Dragon fruit and fennel watercolour on paper, 12 x 19 3/4 inches

26. Gladioli watercolour on paper, 22 x 30 3/4 inches

27. Still life with leaves watercolour on paper, 27 x 40 inches

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