Near Ashkirk
About this artwork
This small study is an early example of Redpath’s work. The artist returned from France to her home town in Hawick in 1934. In the following years she reignited her previously abandoned passion for painting, making numerous studies of her surrounding landscape including this depiction of a small village near Ashkirk. Her paintings from this period demonstrate a more subdued palette than the brilliant hues she would later explore. Redpath also reveals an early interest in abstraction through the use of simplified, expressive forms.
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artist:Anne Redpath (1895 - 1965) Scottish
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title:Near Ashkirk
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date created:About 1940
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materials:Gouache and black chalk on paper
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measurements:37.30 x 50.70 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Bequeathed by Dr R.A. Lillie 1977
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accession number:GMA 1955
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Anne Redpath
Anne Redpath
Redpath was born in Galashiels and studied at Edinburgh College of Art. In 1920 she married and moved to France, devoting much of the next fourteen years to her family and doing little painting. In the mid-1930s she returned to Scotland, settling in Hawick in the Borders. Redpath admired the French...
