* WILLIAM CROZIER ARSA (SCOTTISH 1893 - 1930)
STILL LIFE, VASE OF ROSES

oil on canvas, signed
framed and under glass

image size 60cm x 50cm, overall size 68cm x 58cm

Note: Born in Edinburgh, Crozier studied at Edinburgh College of Art, a friend and fellow student of Anne Redpath, William Gillies and William MacTaggart. Crozier lived in Paris in 1923, while on a Carnegie Travelling Scholarship, and studied with the cubist painter André Lhote. He also travelled to Italy, where he was captivated by the bright sunlight which cast deep shadows. Crozier later attempted to capture this intense light, as he was to adopt the lessons of Cubism, in his own work. After suffering ill health all his life due to haemophilia, Crozier died, aged just thirty-seven, following a fall in his studio. His ECA contemporary, Harold Harvey Wood, later recalled 'Scottish painting suffered a very severe loss in the premature death of Wiliam Crozier, who, quite apart from his considerable gifts as a painter, represented a kind of oasis in the illiterate and philistine deserts of the Scottish studios' (as quoted in Ann Simpson, William Crozier 1893-1930, Edinburgh 1995, p.8).