Frontispiece (from 'The Scottish Bestiary')
About this artwork
This print was made by Stephen Campbell as the frontispiece for ‘The Scottish Bestiary’, an artist book containing 20 prints by 7 Scottish artists, all of which illustrate poems and prose texts by George Mackay Brown. It was published by ‘The Paragon Press’ in 1986. Charles Booth-Clibborn, the founder of ‘The Paragon Press’, invited Mackay Brown to produce texts to accompany the artworks, which depict 19 different animals, real and mythological. The other invited Scottish artists were John Bellany, Peter Howson, Jack Knox, Bruce McLean, June Redfern and Adrian Wiszniewski. Campbell made two woodcuts for the Bestiary including this one, of a sword-dancer. His second print was an illustration of a lobster.
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artist:Steven CampbellScottish (1953 - 2007)
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title:Frontispiece (from 'The Scottish Bestiary')
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date created:Published 1986
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materials:Woodcut and letterpress on paper (24/60)
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measurements:56.50 x 39.00 cm (paper 76.00 x 56.50 cm)
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credit line:Purchased 1987
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accession number:GMA 3018.1
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Steven Campbell
Steven Campbell
Steven Campbell emerged as the leading figure of a group of Scottish figurative painters who began to exhibit their work in the early 1980s. After working as an engineer for seven years, in 1982 Campbell graduated from Glasgow School of Art. A Fulbright Scholarship took him to New York, where he...
