Stanley Cursiter

Scottish (1887 - 1976)
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Stanley Cursiter The Regatta 1913 © Estate of Stanley Cursiter. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2018.

Biography

Born 1887
Died 1976
Nationality Scottish
Birth place Kirkwall
Death place Stromness, Orkney

Born in Kirkwall, Orkney, Stanley Cursiter was one of Scotland's most prolific twentieth-century painters as well as being a writer and curator. He was one of the first students of the newly-opened Edinburgh College of Art and played an important role in introducing Post-Impressionism and Futurism to Scotland. He was appointed Director of the National Galleries of Scotland in 1930 and King's Limner for Scotland in 1948. Cursiter initiated the campaign to create a Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

Artworks

The Interior of the National Gallery of Scotland About 1938
The Kame of Hoy Dated 1950
Alexander Esme Gordon, 1910 - 1993. Architect. (As a child) 1915
The Regatta 1913
Stanley Cursiter, 1887 - 1976. Artist (Self-portrait); Director of the National Galleries of Scotland (With his wife Phyllis Eda Hourston and his... 1925
Twilight Dated 1914
The Interior of the National Gallery of Scotland About 1938
The Sheep Crag 1913
The Moon's First Trip About 1912-1915
Rain 1913
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Glossary terms

Futurism

  • An Italian literary and artistic movement that began in 1909 led by the writer Filippo Tommasso Marinetti. It rejected the culture of the past and embraced new technology, emphasising speed and dynamism. It used the Cubist techniques of fragmentation and shifting viewpoints to represent these ideals in paint. Futurism also had a political aspect and was closely associated with Italian Fascism.