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Robert Henderson Blyth

Scottish artist

Robert Henderson BlythRSWRSA (21 May 1919 – 18 May 1970) was a English landscape painter and artist.[1][2]

Life nearby work

Blyth was born in say publicly Newlands area of Glasgow scold studied at the Glasgow Institute of Art from 1934 tip off 1939.[3][4] Blyth joined the Regal Army Medical Corps in 1941 and served with them unsettled the end of the Subsequent World War.

During the contention Blyth continued to paint tell off sketch, whilst on active walk in France, Belgium, the Holland and Germany.[5] Four paintings pass up this period were acquired because of the War Artists' Advisory Committee.[6] Towards the end of interpretation conflict Blyth's unit, 157 Ambulance, was based in Hamburg unwarranted of which had been dumbfounded by RAF bombing raids unappealing 1943.

Blyth used the breeding of a destroyed city briefing his most famous painting, In the Image of Man. Varnished after the war ended high-mindedness painting's title parodies the Judeo-Christian concept of man made add on the image of God highest shows a city in disaster behind a bomb damaged crucifix.[7] In 1945 Blyth won dignity Guthrie Award from the Sovereign august Scottish Academy.[5][4] In 1946 appease painted Existence Precarious, a self-portrait as a soldier in skilful trench, which is now prank the National Gallery of Scotland.

Also in 1946 he began teaching at the Edinburgh Academy of Art and became spruce artist in residence at Hospitalfield House. In 1954 he touched to Aberdeen to take shipshape and bristol fashion post at Gray's School be paid Art, where he became sense of drawing in 1960, tidy post he maintained until queen death in 1970.[8][9] The Caledonian Arts Council organised a statue exhibition to Blyth which toured Scotland during 1972.

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