Jamieson, Robert Kirkland, 1881–1950

Winter exhibited 1941

Robert Kirkland Jamieson (1881–1950)

Glasgow Life Museums

Painter and teacher, born at Lanark, Scotland. He studied at Glasgow Training College for Teachers, then in Paris. For most of the 1930s he was head of Westminster School of Art, taking over as principal of St Martin’s School of Art in 1945. He was married to the artist and potter Dorothea Selous. He showed at RA, LG, NEAC, Redfern Gallery and extensively at RBA. Galleries in Oldham, Worthing, Belfast and Glasgow hold his work. Lived at Burford, Oxfordshire.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)

Winter artworks: colour in the dark
Anita Sethi

Art History Research net (AHR net)

Robert Kirkland Jamieson [also known as R. Kirkland Jamieson] was born in Lanark, Scotland, on 19 January 1881 and studied at Glasgow Training College for Teachers and in Paris. He subsequently worked as painter and as an art teacher. He was Headmaster of Westminster School of Art in London from 1933 to 1939 and Principal of St. Martin's School of Art in London from 1945 to 1947.

Jamieson exhibited at the Royal Academy in London from 1928 to 1937 and at the New English Art Club in London from 1931 to 1950. He also at the exhibited Royal Society of British Artists and Redfern Gallery in London; and with the New Autumn Group and the London Group. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1923 and the Art Workers Guild in 1927. He died in Uckfield, Sussex in 1950.

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