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Alan Davie Biography
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1920 |
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Born in Grangemouth, Scotland
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1938 |
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Andrew Grant Scholarship
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1937 - 1940 |
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Trained at Edinburgh College of Art
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1942 |
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Won the Guthrie Award for the best painting by a young artist at the Scottish Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
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1941 - 1946 |
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Military service with the Royal Artillery
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1946 - 1947 |
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Jazz musician, married Janet (Billi) Gaul
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1948 - 1949 |
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Travelled around Europe, exhibited in Florence and Venice. Peggy Guggenheim bought one of his works from the Venice show.
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1949 |
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Making Jewellery and Silverware, Jazz musician, birth of daughter Jane
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1956 |
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Prix Guggenheim, Musee d'Arte Moderne, Paris, France
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1956 |
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Visited New York where he met leading Abstract Expressionists William de Kooning and Mark Rothko
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1956 - 1959 |
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Winner of the Gregory Fellowship in Painting at Leeds University.
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1959 |
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Teacher, Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, England
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1963 - 1970 |
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Experiments in lithography
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1971 |
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First Musical Record Published
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1972 |
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Awarded C.B.E. (Commander of the British Empire)
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1977 |
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Lecturer, Royal College of Art, London
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1977 |
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Honoured by the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (HRSA)
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1971 - 1979 |
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Concerts and recordings of Spontaneous Music
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1960 - 1980 |
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Gliding: 2000 hours soaring in England, Switzerland, USA
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1987 |
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Order of the Southern Cross Award Brazil
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1989 |
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Barbican Art Gallery, London, showed his major works from the 60s
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1991 |
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Became Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art Convocation, London, England
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Lives and works in Hertford and Cornwall, England
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Public Collections
Arts Council of England
British Council
City Art Centre, Edinburgh
Fitzwilliam Gallery, Cambridge
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
Royal Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Tate Britain, London
Tate Modern, London
Ulster Museum, Belfast
Victoria and Albert Museum
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Museum of Modern Art, New York Metropolitan Museum, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Art, San Francisco
Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2003
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Recent Paintings and Gouaches, Gimpel Fils, London; James Hyman Fine Art, London
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2003
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Retrospective - Jingling Space, Tate St Ives
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2003
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How Heavy is Black?, Broadbent, London
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2002
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Broadbent at The Glasgow Art Fair, Scotland
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2001
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Screen Prints, Broadbent, London
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2000
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Retrospective: Cobra Museum, Holland
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2000
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Retrospective: Scottish National Museum of Modern Art
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1997
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Scottish National Museum of Modern Art
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1997
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Drawings retrospective: University of Brighton
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1997
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Alan Davie: A 40 Year Survey, ACA Galleries New York
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1996
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Solo exhibition of early work held at the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
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1992 - 1995
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British Council touring exhibition: South America and Australia
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1994
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Portugal, Porto, Lisbon, Almada
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1994
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University of Brighton Gallery Brighton
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1994
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Hastings Museum and Art GAllery
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1994
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The University Gallery
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1994
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University of Northumbria at Newcastle
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1994
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The University Gallery Nottingham
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1994
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The Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Stirling
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1994
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Tel Aviv, Bineth Gallery
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1994
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ACA Galleries Munich
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1993
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Eva Cohon Gallery Highland Park, IL
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1993
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Aca Galleries New York
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1993
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Retrospective: Barbican Gallery, London
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1992
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McLellan Galleries Glasgow, Scotland
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1991
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Gimpel Fils London, England
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1991
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Galerie M Krakow, Poland
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1991
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Scottish Art in the 20th Century, Royal West of England Academy
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1990
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Scottish Art Since 1900, Barbican Art Gallery London, England
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1990
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Galerie Louis Carre Paris, France
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1990
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Gimpel and Wetizenhoffer NYC
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1989
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The Scottish Gallery Edinburgh, Scotland
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1989
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Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh, Scotland
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1988
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Gimpel Fils London, England
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1988
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The Romantic Tradition in Contemporary British Painting, Traveling Exhibition Spain
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1988
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International Contemporary Painting, Olympiades des Artes Seoul, Korea
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1987
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British Art in the 20th Century, Royal Academy London, England
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1987
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Gimpel Fils London, England
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1986
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Celtic Vision, The Conde Duque Cultural Centre Gallery Madrid, Spain
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1985
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Recalling the Fifties, Serpentine Gallery London, England
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1983
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Contemporary British Painting, Municipal Museum Madrid, Spain
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1982
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Royal Glasgow Institution of Fine Arts Glasgow, Scotland
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1977
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British Painting 1952-1977, Royal Academy of Art London, England
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1962
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One man show: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
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1962
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One man show: Bienal Di Sao Paulo, Brazil
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1958
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Retrospective: Wakefield City Art Gallery
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1958
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Retrospective: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
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1956
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First American show, New York. Subsequently shown frequently throughout USA
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1950
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First one man show at Gimpel Fils Gallery, London. Subsequently every two years to date
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1948
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Exhibitions in Florence, Venice. Paintings bought by Peggy Guggenheim
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