'Reclining Nude' by Sydney Horne Shepherd, Glasgow School of Art, Dundee, Post-Impressionist Figural

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Signed lower center, 'Shepherd' for Sydney Horne Shepherd (British, 1909-1993) and painted circa 1960; accompanied by old exhibition label.

A … Read more Signed lower center, 'Shepherd' for Sydney Horne Shepherd (British, 1909-1993) and painted circa 1960; accompanied by old exhibition label.

A lyrical watercolor of a woman reclining and gazing towards the viewer.

Born in Dundee and educated at Harris Academy, Sidney D’Horne Shepherd attended Dundee School of Art from 1924-1926 and then Glasgow School of Art where, in 1927, he won a traveling scholarship and prizes for portrait and landscape. In 1929, Shepherd won a post-diploma scholarship and became an Assistant Art Teacher at Glasgow Art School. A series of portrait commissions took him to London where, in 1937, he became a lecturer at Shoreditch Training College and, during the war, a draughtsman at the Napiers Aircraft Factory. He continued to paint and, in 1947, was appointed Senior Art Lecturer at Shoreditch in 1947, Shepherd remained at Shoreditch until 1954 when he was appointed to teaching posts at St. Martin’s School of Art and at the St John Cass School of Art before retiring in 1974. Shepherd exhibited widely and with success, with work is held in many private and public collections including McManus Galleries, Dundee.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

1930 and 1931 McClure Gallery, Glasgow
1933 Whyte’s Gallery, Washington, USA
1954 Via Lima, Rome, Italy
1955 Babuinetta Gallery, Rome, Italy
1958 Everyman Foyer Gallery, Hampstead, London
1961 Monseigneur, Marble Arch, London
1961 Hyde Park Gallery, London
1963 New End Gallery, Hampstead, London & Boston & New York USA
1975 St Blaize Gallery, Stockwell College, Bromley
1983 Grass Roots Gallery, Durban, South Africa
1987 Lizard Gallery, Farnham

- Biography and photo of the artist courtesy of Gallery Q, Dundee, UK See less