5th Dec, 2024 10:00
The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction
* MILLIE FROOD (SCOTTISH 1900 - 1988)
TURNING HAY
oil on board, initialled, titled label verso
framed
image size 47cm x 72cm, overall size 72cm x 96cm
Label verso: Cyril Gerber Fine Art, Glasgow
Note: Painter, draughtsman and teacher, born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire. She studied at Glasgow School of Art and taught at Bellshill Academy. Early on she showed with RSA and RSW and with the arrival of the painter J D Fergusson and his dancer wife Margaret Morris from France in 1939, and the influx of foreign painters such as Josef Herman and Jankel Adler, Frood became part of a movement which revitalised the arts in the city after World War II. She showed with the New Scottish Group and designed the costumes and set for the ballet The Harvesters, put on in 1961, dance in Scotland having been given new life with Margaret Morris’ Celtic Ballet Club, the Celtic Ballet of Scotland and the resulting Scottish National Ballet. Frood had a number of solo shows in Lanarkshire and Glasgow, latterly her work was exhibited in America and Japan and in 1989 Cyril Gerber Fine Art, Glasgow, held a show linking her with the New Scottish Group.
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