User:Trekker Dave/Gordon Coutts

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Gordon Harrower Coutts
Gordon Coutts, Self-Portrait
Born(1865-10-03)October 3, 1865
Aberdeen, Scotland
DiedFebruary 21, 1937(1937-02-21) (aged 71)
Palm Springs, California
EducationGlasgow School of Art,
Académie Julian,
National Gallery of Victoria Art School
Known forPainting (oil, watercolor), Illustration
MovementHeidelberg School,
California Impressionism,
Orientalism

Gordon Coutts (October 3, 1865 - February 21, 1937) international painter and illustrator. Most known for portraits and landscapes in Australia, California, Morocco and Mexico.

Biography[edit]

Born in Aberdeen, Scotland,[1] Gordon Coutts emigrated to Australia around 1886. He returned to Scotland in 1888 for the Glasgow International Exhibition where he studied works of Velasquez in the Old Master loan collection.[2] He was also a student in Paris at the Académie Julian under Tony Robert-Fleury.[3]

Australia[edit]

Waiting - Australia

In Melbourne, from around 1890-1893, Coutts was enrolled in the National Gallery Art school where he received honorable mention for the Traveling Artist Scholarship Competition in 1893.[4] During the 1890s, he exhibited with artists from the Heidelberg School, including Tom Roberts,[5] Frederick McCubbin, Arthur Streeton, and David Davies.[6][7] During this time, he also had many portrait commissions, including a large painting of the entire Melbourne legislative assembly.[8] Around 1896, Coutts moved to Sydney and was an Instructor of Painting at the Art Society of New South Wales, a post which he held until 1899.[9][10]

Northern California[edit]

In 1902, Coutts moved to California.[11] In 1904, he married Alice Hobbs,[12] also a painter, and they settled in San Francisco.[13]Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page). He was a member of the Bohemian Club, and often exhibited there, at the Sequoia Club, and at various Bay Area venues with fellow Northern California painters, including Maynard Dixon, Granville Redmond and William Keith.[14][15][16] He and Alice survived the 1906 earthquake and they moved across the bay to Piedmont, where they built a house-studio.[17]

Painting of cattle grazing beneath Mt. Tamalpais, Marin County

Coutts was a prolific illustrator at this time, doing covers for Sunset Magazine,[18] as well as drawings for magazine stories, poetry and books, [19] and also art for calendars and cigar-boxes.

Coutts spent much time sketching and painting in and around Marin County, such as at the art colony at Guerneville[20] near the Bohemian Grove.

Abroad[edit]

During 1911-1914, Coutts made trips to Europe where he spent many months, including to Scotland and England, the artist colony at Etaples, France, and Paris[21] where he won a place on the wall at the Paris Salons. World War I obliged Coutts to leave Paris for London, and by early 1915 he was back in Piedmont.[22][23]

In 1916, Coutts returned again to Europe.[24] By war's end, he was painting in Morocco,[25] and later Spain and Mexico,[26][27] until 1925. During this time, he exhibited at the Royal Academy and other galleries in London.[28]

Southern California[edit]

In late 1925, Coutts returned to California, this time to the Southland,[29] where he built a Moroccan-style house-studio-gallery in Palm Springs he named Dar Morroc. While continuing to show at the Royal Academy, he regularly participated in exhibits with other Southern California painters in Los Angeles, Pasadena[30] and Laguna,[31] including William Wendt,[32] Edgar Payne,[33] and William Ritschel,[30] and at the Stendahl Gallery in the Ambassador Hotel.[34] [29][35]

In 1927, Coutts went back to Australia for his first exhibition there in twenty-five years.[26] He continued to travel about the Southwest United States painting landscapes and portraits, from Santa Barbara[36] to Canyon de Chelly, [37] until a few years before his death in 1937.

Selected Exhibitions and Awards[edit]

Paris Salon[edit]

These annual summer exhibitions in Paris were sponsored by the Société des Artistes Français, and were the traditional or 'old' Salons.


References[edit]

  1. ^ ’’Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950’’, Family Search, Gordon Coutts, 03 Oct 1865; citing OLD MACHAR,ABERDEEN,SCOTLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 6,035,516
  2. ^ "Art and Artists". Table Talk (Melbourne, Vic. : 1885 - 1939). Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 20 July 1894. p. 6. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  3. ^ "Oral history interview with Otis Oldfield" 1965 May 21, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
  4. ^ "Pictures Painted for the Travelling Scholarship - Subject: TOO LATE". The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946). Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 30 December 1893. p. 30. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  5. ^ "A National Art Exhibition". Clarence and Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1889 - 1915). Grafton, NSW: National Library of Australia. 8 September 1900. p. 4. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  6. ^ "ART EXHIBITION". The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957). Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 7 May 1894. p. 7. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  7. ^ "THE VICTORIAN ARTS EXHIBITION". The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946). Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 29 April 1893. p. 26. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  8. ^ "A PICTURE OF PARLIAMENT: THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, 1895". The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946). Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 27 June 1896. p. 21. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  9. ^ "ART NOTES". Leader (Melbourne, Vic. : 1862 - 1918). Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 18 November 1899. p. 38. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  10. ^ "The Art Society's Show". The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871 - 1912). NSW: National Library of Australia. 17 October 1896. p. 808. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  11. ^ California, San Francisco Passenger Lists, 1893-1953 FamilySearch, Gordon Coutts, 1902; citing San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1410 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm
  12. ^ "Indian Pictures Please Art Lovers" San Francisco Call, Volume 107, Number 73, 11 February 1910, Page 3
  13. ^ "Births-Marriages-Deaths" San Francisco Call, Volume 95, Number 155, 3 May 1904 — Page 14 Advertisements Column 2
  14. ^ "Bohemian Artists Show Good Work" Doyle, Margaret Marshall. San Francisco Call, Volume 107, Number 180, 29 May 1910 - Page 39 Column 4
  15. ^ "BOHEMIAN CLUB ADMITS VISITORS" San Francisco Chronicle (1869-Current File), Nov 20, 1912, Page 5
  16. ^ "Brave Showing of Western Artists" Powers, Laura Bride. San Francisco Call, Volume 97, Number 124, 2 April 1905 - Page 19 Column 1
  17. ^ "Exhibition of Paintings by Giuseppe Cadenasso Wins Praise of Art Critics" San Francisco Call, Volume 102, Number 157, 4 November 1907, Page 8 Column 1
  18. ^ September 1906 Sunset Magazine, Volume 17, Page 189
  19. ^ "The Wine of Wizardry" San Francisco Call, Volume 103, Number 8, 8 December 1907, Page 37 Column 2
  20. ^ "In the Art World" Doyle, Margaret Marshall. San Francisco Call, Volume 106, Number 111, 19 September 1909
  21. ^ "Gossip of the Studios" Prosser, Katharine Clark. San Francisco Call, Volume 110, Number 151, 29 October 1911, Page 46
  22. ^ "Music and Musicians" Oakland Tribune, 24 January, 1915
  23. ^ "Of Art and Artists" Anderson, Antony. Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) Nov 15, 1925: C39
  24. ^ "Artists and Their Work" Winchell, Anna Cora. San Francisco Chronicle, August 27, 1916: 26
  25. ^ "GORDON COUTTS, FAMOUS ARTIST, DIVORCED". Leader (Melbourne, Vic. : 1862 - 1918). Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 2 February 1918. p. 43 Edition: TOWN and WEEKLY. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  26. ^ a b "VIVID PICTURES". The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929). Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 18 October 1927. p. 11. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  27. ^ "A NOTED PAINTER". The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931). Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 1 June 1927. p. 18. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  28. ^ "AUSTRALIAN ART IN LONDON". The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929). Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 24 April 1925. p. 10. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  29. ^ a b "ARTIST CELEBRITIES FIND IDEAL HOMES IN CALIFORNIA" AGNES ELDING PALLEN. Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 17 Jan 1926: C21.
  30. ^ a b "VANISHING RACES DEPICTED" Hogue, Fred. Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 25 May 1930: B15.
  31. ^ "LAGUNA GIVEN DIAGNOSIS" Millier, Arthur. Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 19 July 1931: B11.
  32. ^ "ART and ARTISTS: OF INTEREST TO ARTISTS" Millier, Arthur. Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 03 Apr 1927: C18.
  33. ^ "EXHIBITS SEEN IN FIVE TOWNS" Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 25 Oct 1931: B16.
  34. ^ "OF ART AND ARTISTS" Anderson, Antony. Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 15 Nov 1925: C39.
  35. ^ "ART and ARTISTS" Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 13 Dec 1925: H6.
  36. ^ "DOWN MEMORY LANE" Desert Sun, Volume XXIV, Number 3, 18 August 1950
  37. ^ "Canyon de Chelly: 100 Hundred Years of Painting and Photography. ISBN-13: 978-0879057053" Hagerty, Donald., G. Smith 1996, Page 68.
  38. ^ "SALONS OF 1912". Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954). Launceston, Tas.: National Library of Australia. 20 June 1912. p. 3 Edition: DAILY. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  39. ^ "Les Salons de 1913" Le Rappel, Paris. 1913/05/01 (N15783).
  40. ^ "Australian Artists". Advocate (Melbourne, Vic. : 1868 - 1954). Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 16 May 1914. p. 36. Retrieved 27 August 2015.

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