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Nationality
  
Scottish

Role
  
Artist

Movement
  
Spouse(s)
  
Phyllis Hourston

Period
  
Futurism

Name
  
Stanley Cursiter


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Born
  
April 29, 1887 (
1887-04-29
)
Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland

Known for
  
Painting, Drawing, Author

Died
  
April 22, 1976, Stromness, United Kingdom

Artwork
  
The Regatta, Rain on Princes Street

Education
  
Edinburgh College of Art

Stanley cursiter


Stanley Cursiter (29 April 1887 – 22 April 1976) was a British artist who played an important role in introducing Post-Impressionism and Futurism to Scotland. He served as the keeper (1919–30), then director (1930-48), of the National Galleries of Scotland, and as HM Limner and Painter in Scotland (1948–76).

Contents

Stanley Cursiter: A collection of 83 paintings (HD)


Biography

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He was born at 15 East Road in Kirkwall, Orkney the son of J Scott Cursiter.

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He was educated at Kirkwall Grammar School before moving to Edinburgh, where he studied at Edinburgh College of Art. His early paintings were influenced by cubism, futurism and vorticism. From an early age he clearly had access to great wealth as his accommodation from 1910 is listed as 28 Queen Street, one of the most prestigious addresses in Edinburgh, and not affordable to the average art student.

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During First World War he served as an officer in 1st Battalion, the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) and served in The Battle of the Somme, Amiens and Abbeville. The conditions in the trenches brought on bronchitis and asthma, and he was invalided out to convalesce in the South of France. After recuperating, he reurned to the Battalion's base, but was once again hospitalised and in danger of becoming 'unfit for service'. However he managed to continue service by transferring to the 4th Field Ordnance Survey Battalion at 4th Army Headquarters and developed new and faster methods for processing aerial photographs. In particular, he devised a clever method of projecting the photographic negative taken from a spotter plane which replicated the tilt present when the photograph was taken - the technique of single photo optical rectification. This greatly speeded up the process of rapid fixing of enemy gun emplacements. During the War, he also learned to use radio (becoming President of the Edinburgh Radio Society). He was Mentioned in Dispatches twice, and received a military OBE. During the Second World War he initially worked at the Ordnance Survey Department in Southampton (1939–40), and then moved to the same organisation in Edinburgh (1940-1945). He received a military CBE in 1948.

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After the First World War he adopted a more realist style.

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Cursiter became an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1927, a full Academician in 1937 and served as Secretary to the Academy from 1953 to 1955. He was the first Secretary of the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland and was appointed Keeper of the National Galleries of Scotland in 1930, a post he held until 1948. That same year, he was granted the Freedom of Kirkwall and was appointed as the King's (later to be Queen's) Painter and Limner for Scotland, a position he held until his death.

He painted watercolour landscapes of East Lothian, Orkney and Shetland, and designed Saint Rognvald Chapel in St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall. He is particularly renowned for his portraits and is considered amongst the finest Scottish portraitists of the 20th Century. He painted 'Her Majesty The Queen receiving the Honours of Scotland' in the High Kirk of St Giles in 1953, this painting hangs on the Great Stair, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh.

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Aberdeen University awarded him an honorary doctorate (LLD) in 1959. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1938, a rare accolade for an artist. His proposers were James Pickering Kendall, Leonard Dobbin, James Watt, and Sir Ernest Wedderburn.

Cursiter was influential in the campaign to create a Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

He died in Stromness in 1976.

Family

He married Phylliss Hourston in 1910.

Selected works

  • Rain on Princes Street, 1913
  • The Regatta, 1913
  • Villefranche,circa 1920
  • The Fair Isle Jumper, 1923
  • Geo at Yesnaby and Brough of Bigging, 1929
  • Window - Burnstane House, circa 1935
  • The Old Store, Stromness, 1950
  • The Honours of Scotland, 1954
  • Landscape in the Orkneys, 1954
  • References

    Stanley Cursiter Wikipedia


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