Shooting Booth, Brittany

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

20731

Title

Shooting Booth, Brittany

Description

Shooting Booth, Brittany is an expressionist, almost abstract painting of a traditional fairground shooting gallery. The curtains are pulled back to reveal a black interior, with the targets glinting in the gloom. The whole booth seems to be hovering within an indefinable space

Artist / maker

Redpath, Anne

Size

68.9 x 81.3cm

Type

Oil on board

Location

City Art Centre

Accession number

CAC1966/11

By the mid 1950's Redpath was firmly established as one of Scotland's leading contemporary painters. In 1952 she became the first woman painter to be elected as a Royal Scottish Academician. She travelled extensively throughout Europe during the 1950s. She was a central figure of the Edinburgh School group of artists.

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