1979
Edition Size: 30
Sheet Size: 17 x 85 cm
Signed
Condition: Excellent
A delightful etching/aquatint by an artist who deserves to be better known. Unframed and in excellent condition. Small edition of just 30. Signed, numbered and titled in the small margin in pencil. The work is not dated but the subject matter is consistent with the date given.
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Born in Arbroath in 1929, Littlejohn studied Fine Art at Dundee College of Art, before becoming Lecturer in (and then Head of) Fine Art at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, retiring in1991.
In 2006, the late William Littlejohn left the entire contents of his studio to the Royal Scottish Academy. Littlejohn was always attracted to Japanese Art and in 1984 he was awarded a RSA Gillies Award to travel to Japan. We can see this influence in his early studies and in the beautifully executed and restrained oils but it is in the later watercolours where this is most evident.
William Littlejohn was elected as a member of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1973, the Royal Glasgow Institute in 1989 and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour in 1990. He has had several one man exhibitions both in Scotland and England and his paintings are in several private and public collections including H.M. The Queen, Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, Royal Bank of Scotland and Edinburgh and Aberdeen Universities.
