Large-scale William Scott works feature in exhibition that tells story of artist’s friendship with Mark Rothko
Large-scale William Scott works feature in exhibition that tells story of artist’s friendship with Mark Rothko
The story of how one of the UK’s great abstract painters was inspired by ordinariness – and the extraordinary meeting he had with an American artistic giant – is being told in a new exhibition in the West Country.
Three large-scale paintings by William Scott (1913 –1989) have been loaned to the Museum of Somerset in Taunton, not far from the artist’s home and studio in the countryside south of Bath.
Visitors will also learn about a trip the American artist Mark Rothko made to Scott’s home in 1959, during which they discussed murals they were working on for a restaurant in New York and a hospital in Northern Ireland.
The exhibition’s curator, Tim Martin, said it was a good chance to see Scott paintings loaned by the Tate in a place that meant so much to him and to think about the visit of an American icon to the West Country.
