12th Sep, 2021 13:00

The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction

 
  Lot 588
 

DIANA, A WOOD CARVING BY SCOTT SUTHERLAND

* SCOTT SUTHERLAND DA RSA FRBS (SCOTTISH 1910 - 1984),
DIANA
wood carving, signed, titled and dated 1979 verso
34cm high.
Note: Sculptor Scott Sutherland was born at Wick, Caithness. He trained at Gray's School of Art, Edinburgh School of Art and Ecole des Beaux Arts (Paris), and briefly in Egypt, Germany, Greece and Italy. He taught sculpture at Dundee College of Art from 1947. Sutherland's most important work was The Commando Memorial at Achnacarry (about a mile from Spean Bridge). He won an open competition in 1949 to design the memorial which was unveiled by the HM The Queen Mother on 27 September 1952. Other large-scale works include The Black Watch Memorial (1966) at Powrie Brae, Dundee and The Hugh Dowding Memorial (1972) at Moffat, Annandale & Eskdale. Among his other sculptures are: statues of famous Scotsman for the Empire Exhibition in Glasgow 1936; the Coat of Arms (in sandstone) for the entrance to National Library, Edinburgh; a bronze capercaillie for the school at Kenmore; the Robert Burns statue at Arbroath; the carved slate memorial panel to the crew of Broughty Ferry Lifeboat Mona; the silver trophy of the Royal Observer Corps and the Leaping Salmon Fountain for the Norrie Miller Memorial Garden at Perth in Perthshire. Sutherland won the Guthrie award in 1940.

 

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Sold for £1,100
Estimated at £400 - £600


 
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