Flowers on a Blue Cloth

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Still life painting of a jug with yellow-orange flowers set against a black background with some coloured shapes, to the top left a suggestion of a set of stairs.

Dame Elizabeth Violet Blackadder, DBE, RA, RSA, RSW, was born in Falkirk and studied at Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art. Blackadder is a painter and printmaker and the first woman to be elected to both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy. She works in a variety of media including oil paints, watercolour, drawing and printmaking. In the 1960s Blackadder acquired a growing reputation for her paintings of flowers.

The Argyll Collection

Oban

Title

Flowers on a Blue Cloth

Date

mid-20th C

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 61 x W 51 cm

Accession number

48

Acquisition method

acquired, 1964

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

E Blackadder

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