William Crozier
10 November - 1 December 2012
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William Crozier
1930 - 2011
Born in Glasgow in 1930 William Crozier received his art education at the Glasgow School of Art between 1949 and 1953. He spent formative periods of his early professional life in Paris and Dublin before settling in London where in 1958-60, he gained a reputation among fellow artists through the early success of his exhibitions of assemblages and paintings at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Arthur Tooth & Sons Gallery and the Drian Galleries, with whom he had a long association. In the 1950s he worked in London and Dublin as a theatre painter and became a friend of the poets Patrick Kavanagh and Anthony Cronin. Among painters, his friends and peers included the artists Colquhoun and MacBryde, Roger Hilton, Terry Frost and William Scott. In 1963 Crozier spent a year in southern Spain, an experience that was to prove pivotal to his development as an artist, in particular his concerns with the landscape and his depiction of the human figure. Based in London from 1964, Crozier exhibited his work regularly in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dublin and continental Europe. 1983 marked an extraordinary development in his painting as a result of establishing a home and studio in West Cork. William Crozier represented the UK and Ireland overseas, and was awarded the Premio Lissone in Milan and the Gold medal for Painting from the Irish Oireachtas. He was elected to Aosdána in 1992 and he was elected an honorary member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. Several films have been made about Crozier and his work, notably ‘William Crozier’ by W. Gordon Smith for BBC Scotland in 1970 and the 1993 documentary ‘The Truth about a painter’ directed by Cian O hEigertaigh for RTE. William Crozier’s work features in all reference works on post-war art in Britain and Ireland. His work is represented in all major public and private collections in the UK and Ireland, as well as in the national galleries of Canada, Poland and Australia and the Museums of Modern Art of Scotland, Ireland and Denmark. A major monograph ‘William Crozier’ (ed. Crouan, K, with essays by Kennedy, SB and Vann, P) was published in 2007 by Lund Humphries.
cover image: Ballydehob 1990 watercolour and acrylic on paper 64 x 89cm
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Untitled (‘The Green Table’) c. 2002 - 2005 oil on canvas 61 x 76cm
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Evening I 2003 oil on canvas 40 x 50cm
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French Landscape 2008 acrylic and crayon on paper 35.5 x 50.5cm
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Untitled (‘The Yellow Ground’) 2006 acrylic on paper 35.5 x 50.5cm
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Untitled (‘Stylish Flowers’) 2006 acrylic on paper 35.5 x 50.5cm
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French Vase 2006 watercolour and acrylic on paper 35.5 x 50.5cm
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At Midnight 2010 oil pastel and acrylic on paper 42 x 56cm
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Untitled (‘West Cork Landscape IV’) 1984 oil on paper 42 x 59.5cm
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Untitled (‘West Cork Landscape I’) 1984 oil on paper 42 x 59.5cm
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Untitled (‘West Cork Landscape III’) 1984 oil on paper 42 x 59.5cm
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Untitled (‘West Cork Landscape II’) 1984 oil on paper 42 x 59.5cm
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Aughadown c. 1987 - 1989 oil on canvas 58.5 x 52.5cm
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Hilton Fine Art, 5 Margaret’s Buildings, Bath BA1 2LP 01225 311311 info@hiltonfineart.com www.hiltonfineart.com