The Harry and Margery Boswell Art Collection: Artworks
- John Bellany, Woman of the North Sea.
- Elizabeth Blackadder, Untitled.
- John Byrne, Juggling Harlequin.Steven Campbell, Portrait of Tom Normand.
- Calum Colvin, Mute Swan.
- Ken Currie, Age of Uncertainty.
- Ken Currie, Reprisal.
- Alan Davie, Zurich Improvisations XII.
- Paul Furneaux, Black Madonna.
- John Houston, Untitled.
- Ian Howard, Drago.
- Callum Innes, XI
- Elspeth Lamb, The Gift.
- Patricia Macdonald, Braided river and ancient pines, Glen Feshie, Cairngorms.
- Patricia Macdonald, Lochan Uaine (The Green Lochan) below the Angel's Peak of Carn an t-Sabhail, Cairngorms.
- Will Maclean, Bird Altar.
- Will Maclean, The Tanera Suite.
- William McCance, Machine Moloch or Machine Gods.
- William McCance, The Engineer, His Wife and Family.
- William McCance, Tree Trunk Composition.
- June Redfern, Early Morning Mist.
- Elaine Shemilt, Image in a Bell Jar.
- Alison Watt, Untitled.
- Adrian Wiszniewski, For Max.
Elizabeth Blackadder (born 1931)
Untitled: from the series Thursday's Child
1993
Etching
HC1995.3(2)
Elizabeth Blackadder was born in Falkirk and trained at Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art (ECA). In her early work she was influenced by the Scottist Colourist Joseph Crawhall and her teacher, William Gillies. In 1954 she travelled to Yugoslavia, Greece and Italy after receiving the Carnegie Travelling Scholarship. She still travels widely and exhibits throughout the world. From 1956 to 1986 she taught at ECA.
Her signature subjects include landscapes, cats, flowers, still-lifes and portraits. Blackadder's work is based in the traditions of the Edinburgh School, but is strongly influenced by Japanese aesthetics. Characteristically, she carefully arranges objects in a shallow pictorial space to create intriguing and subtly decorative images.
The Thursday's Child series consists of ten prints by distinguished Scottish artists including Pat Douthwaite, John Houston, Paul Furneaux and Elspeth Lamb. The project was curated by artists Elaine Shemilt and June Redfern. The prints were produced at the Dundee Printmakers Workshop. The Boswell Collection contains one set of the Thursday's Child prints.