17th Jul, 2025 10:00
The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction
* MARY NICOL NEILL ARMOUR LLD RSA RSW RGI (SCOTTISH 1902 - 2000)
SUMMER FLOWERS
oil on board, signed and dated 1988, titled label verso
framed and under glass
image size 19cm x 18cm, overall size 34cm x 32cm
Note: Painter, notably of flowers and landscapes in oil and pastels using a rich palette, born in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, married to the artist William Armour. Like him she taught at Glasgow School of Art, having studied there, 1920–5, under Maurice Greiffenhagen and David Forrester Wilson. She showed with RSW, RSA and Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, being a member of all, as well as SSA and Fine Art Society in Glasgow. She was honorary president of Glasgow School of Art in 1982. There was a tribute exhibition at Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie, 2001. Collections at public galleries in Glasgow, Paisley, Aberdeen, Perth and Edinburgh hold her work. Lived in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire. A genuine titan of Scottish art in the twentieth century.
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