Adam Sherriff-Scott RCA (1887-1980)
Title: Pitching Hay - Quebec
(Possibly
on the Île aux Coudres is an island
in the Saint Lawrence River in the Charlevoix region of Quebec. The island was
first colonized in 1728. It was named in 1535 by Jacques Cartier for the many
nut-bearin
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Period: Circa 1930s/40s
Size:
22” x 26”
Price: SOLD
Adam
Sherriff Scott was born in Perth, Scotland and began his art education in 1903
at the Edinburgh School of Art. He was awarded the Allen-Fraser Scholarship to
continue his studies for four years at the Allen-Fraser institute, which was a
finishing school for talented young artists, and studied under George Harcourt
A.R.A. He was one of only ten artists who qualified for the scholarship. After
this, he continued his studies at the Slade School under Henry Tonks as well as
at the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery. In 1912, he moved to Brandon,
Manitoba, followed shortly thereafter by Calgary, Alberta where he stayed for
three years. He worked for an American who commissioned him to paint large
scenes of the Canadian West to sell to real estate agents. Upon the advise of
his patron, Scott moved to Montreal in 1915, where he remained for the rest of
his life. He became a member of the Beaver Hall Hill Group, which included such
artists as Lilias Torrance Newton, Randolph Hewton, Edwin Holgate and Robert
Pilot. He served with the Canadian armed forces in WWI and returned in 1919 as
an acting Captain. He was commissioned to paint numerous portraits, as
well as posters for the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Southam Press. During
the 1920s, he spent six years living with the Inuit and painted numerous scenes
of their lives. He established the Adam Sherrif-Scott School of Fine Art, where
he taught drawing and painting. He was elected ARCA in 1935 and a full member of
the Royal Canadian Academy in 1944.
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