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.
Alan Davie (born 1920)
Zurich Improvisations XII
1966
Lithograph: artist's
proof
HC2001.14
Alan Davie was born in Grangemouth and studied at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) from 1937 to 1940. He served in the Royal Artillery from 1940 to 1946. His first one-man show was in Grant's Bookshop, Edinburgh in 1946. He travelled throughout Europe in 1947 after receiving a travelling scholarship from the ECA. In Venice, he met Peggy Guggenheim who introduced him to American Abstract Expressionism. During the 1950s he became known internationally with exhibitions in London and New York.
The symbols and rhythms in Davie's work reflect his interest in the symbolism of non-Western cultures and a lifelong passion for jazz and poetry.
