* BARBARA RAE CBE RA RSA RE (SCOTTISH b. 1943) ROAD TO MONDA

watercolour on paper, signed, titled label verso mounted, framed and under glass image size 57cm x 76cm, overall size 91cm x 109cm Label verso: The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh. Note: Painter, printmaker and teacher, born in Stirlingshire. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art 1961–5 concluding with postgraduate study, in 1966 using a travelling scholarship to work in France and Spain. In 1966–7 was at Moray House College of Education, then taught in Edinburgh Schools until appointments 1972–4 at Aberdeen College of Education, then from 1975 at Glasgow School of Art. In 1984 she was an exchange teacher at University of Maryland. Won a number of awards and prizes, including Arts Council Awards and RSA Guthrie Award and Medal. In 1985 she gained a Scottish Arts Council Grant which permitted her to paint in Spain and New Mexico. Rae was an extremely prolific exhibitor internationally and from 1967, when she had her first solo show at New 57 Gallery, in Edinburgh, was regular at venues including Aberdeen Art Gallery; Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh and London; and Glasgow Print Studio. Her work is in several dozen collections, including Aberdeen Art Gallery, University of Glasgow and British Museum. Rae was a striking landscape painter with a rich palette, yet her pictures sometimes have an intense, brooding quality. Was elected RSA, and RA in 1996. Over the next few years Rae travelled extensively and in 2002 had a residency at Ballinglen Arts Foundation, County Mayo, Ireland. The North House Gallery, Manningtree, put on Barbara Rae Ten Years’ Printmaking in 2004, the first such major survey. In the same year she had a solo show at Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast, with another, Mayo, of monotypes and colour etchings in 2006. In 2003, Aberdeen University conferred an Hon. Doctorate on Rae and the Royal College of Art an Hon. Fellowship.Condition Report Condition of the picture is good overall. The picture has slightly slipped in the mount.