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Biography
McIntosh Patrick is Scotland's greatest and most celebrated landscape painter of the mid to late 20th century. He was born in Dundee, the son of an architect, and studied at the Glasgow School of Art and in Paris. In Glasgow he formed a lifelong admiration for the late 19th/early 20th century painters of the Glasgow school and a friendship with his teacher, Maurice Grieffenhagen who introduced him to plein air landscape work in the south of France in 1926. Patrick was originally an enthusiastic etcher but opted in the early 1930's to dedicate himself to oils. He returned to Dundee prior to World War II and except for war service abroad stayed there for the rest of his life. Throughout some 40 years, he was a common sight in the lanes, hedgerows and fields of the arable countryside surrounding Dundee and of neighbouring Angus. His work is painstakingly detailed both in regard to form, tonal gradation and colour. Unsurprisingly it has become highly collectable and is much admired in the USA as well as the UK. |
