About the Artist
Artist: Alick Riddell Sturrock
Date of Birth: 1885
Date of Death: 1953
Place of Death: St Abbs
Floreat:
Residence in Dumfries & Galloway:
Visited Gatehouse of Fleet from early 1920s. First stayed at Rutherford Cottage, Gatehouse-of-Fleet. Lived at Victoria Cottage, Boatgreen, Gatehouse of Fleet 1926-1934.
Education:
Mound School of Art, Edinburgh; Royal Scottish Academy life class; Edinburgh College of Art
Professional Bodies:
ARSA, 1929; RSA,1937; Treasurer RSA 1938-1947, Secretrary 1953
Exhibited At:
Royal Academy; Royal Scottish Academy; Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours; Aberdeen Artists' Society; Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts; Liverpool
Mentors:
Associates:
Bibliography:
The Dictionary of Scottish Painters, Paul Harris and Julian Halsby, Canongate; Kirkcudbright: one hundred years of an artists' colony, Patrick Bourne, Atelier Books, Edinburgh, 2000. Gatehouse Days: remembering A R Sturrock RSA, David I A Steel, Dumfries and Galloway Council, Dumfries, 2003. A R Sturrock RSA, Bourne Fine Art (exhibition catalogue, 1983) (in Stewartry Museum file). No 18, Barholm Farm, Galloway.
Image of the artist, Stewartry Museum
Notes:
Mainly landscape painter. Exhibited with Eric Robertson, W O Hutchison and others in 1912 and 1913, and again after First World War as part of Edinburgh Group. Treasurer of Royal Scottish Academy,1938-1947; appointed secretary shortly before his death. Anwoth Woods, Galloway is illustrated in Harris and Halsby p216 (see bibliography). Bridge over the Fleet illustrated in Bourne, p88; Group of Trees, Little Boreland, p89 (see bibliography). Married Mary Newbery, daughter of Fra Newbery, 1918
