Biography
Born
1905
Died
1962
Nationality
Scottish
Birth place
Dalbeattie
Death place
Dalbeattie
Maxwell was born in Dalbeattie, Kirkcudbrightshire. He attended Edinburgh College of Art from 1921 to 1926 and then travelled in Europe for a year. For a short period he, like several other Scottish artists of his generation, studied in Paris, where he experimented with a cubist style before settling on a more conventional style of painting. In 1929 Maxwell began teaching at Edinburgh College of Art, where he became a colleague of William Gillies, who often accompanied him on painting holidays. In the 1950s Maxwell painted an extended series of semi-abstract still lifes, reminiscent of the work of Braque.
