David Daiches, 1912 - 2005. Critic and author
About this artwork
A literary critic, cultural historian and poet, David Daiches was one of Scotland's most distinguished writers. His academic career took him to the United States, where he taught at Cornell and Chicago Universities, and to Cambridge and Sussex, before he returned to Edinburgh, the city in which he grew up. Described by the poet Hugh MacDiarmid as 'the foremost living authority on our literature', he wrote pioneering re-evaluations of Burns, Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson. He also published works on Prince Charles Edward Stuart, Scotch whisky and the monuments of Glasgow and Edinburgh. This searching drawing is one of a series made by Gunn Cairns
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artist:Joyce Gunn Cairns (born 1948) Scottish
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title:David Daiches, 1912 - 2005. Critic and author
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date created:1999
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materials:Pencil and red chalk on paper
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measurements:55.80 x 76.20 cm
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credit line:Purchased 1999
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accession number:PG 3169
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Joyce Gunn Cairns
Joyce Gunn Cairns
Joyce Gunn Cairns was born in Bonnyrigg near Edinburgh, and has been based in the capital since 1977. After taking a degree in German and Comparative Religion, she studied at Edinburgh College of Art. She began to exhibit in the late 1980s. Her paintings and drawings are intensely personal,...