William Bell Scott (1811 - 1890) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews

Artist: William Bell Scott (1811 - 1890)
Nationality: British
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
William Bell Scott was a Scottish painter and poet. From 1843 to 1864, he was the head of the Government School of Design in Newcastle. His best paintings were done there and consisted of a series that depicted Northumbrian history. Bell was a personal friend of Rossetti and his work bears similarities to the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Scott also wrote many poems and several books on art.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Art Gallery of Hamilton: Marian Dale Scott, 1906 - 1993: Pioneer of Modern Art
This retrospective exhibition brings together over sixty paintings and works from experiments in a figurative modern language to pure abstraction. Particular attention is paid to Scott's work from the thirties and ...
3RD i GALLERY: InterActive Art Works
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Bishop's University: The Starving Can’t Eat Stone
Inspired by the monument to the 10,000 Irish emigrants who died in the 1840’s quarantine station of Grosse-Ile, Scott MacLeod’s figurative paintings and drawings are a reminder of the pain, suffering and death of so many who did not survive their...
HCG Gallery: Recent Works by Sam Scott
A keen observer of life and philosophy, and a student of the planet, Sam Scott spent time during his young adult years living in various eco-systems. His twenties saw him co-habiting with the Oglala Sioux in South Dakota, working as a commercial ...
Annie Su Gallery: Harvey Scott Kaner: Re-nude
Artist Statement:

My work today is the result of years of experimentation with various media, including stone, bronze, plaster, clay, and found objects. Inspired by nature, the ultimate designer -- along with the creations of great artists an...
Michael Gibson Gallery: Scott Conarroe: Londons
"In the fall of 2005 I began photographing London, Ontario. I produced a generalized place portrait of the city’s houses and its infrastructure and ambience. Several months later I re-photographed the same sites according to those compositions. Lo...
Gallery 51: 51 Doorways: Photography by Suell E. Scott
On the other hand, "A door can be at the threshold of a new beginning; a door can be a challenge. A door can be opened and a subsequent experience can be a salvation; or then again…" Then, there are doors that were never meant to be opened. How...
Red Head Gallery: Else-where. (After Turner): New work by David Scott Armstrong
Else–where. (After Turner) is an exhibition of 16 photo-based prints about point of view, the image, and temporal/spatial displacement. Drawing upon J.M.W. Turner’s apocryphal genesis of his painting "Snow Storm" (and its later engraved print r...
Fraser Gallery: Art and Technology
The exhibition includes work by Kathryn Cornelius, Claire Watkins, Scott Hutchison, Thomas Edwards, David Page and others. "We seek to explore and to show," says Fraser, "what happens when talented and creative individuals, with a proven reco...
photoza: Myopic Visions-Italian Landscapes by Scott Brightwell
"5 years ago I transferred my home to central Italy. This new landscape, with dramatic light and soft pastel palettes, inspired a reawakening to experience the landscape through the lens formed image. In this ongoing body of work, I have contin...
Oakville Galleries: Fuzzy at Centennial Square
Fuzzy explores the loving and playful exchanges between artists and their pets. The artists have in common an emotional engagement with their pets and view them as equal and loving participants in a cooperative dynamic to explore issues of identit...
Frye Art Museum: Scott B. Goodwillie: Figuring the Forces
Painting in a realist style, Goodwillie combines smooth, studied Dutch brushstrokes with more edgy, contemporary subjects to create works that are both classically masterful and modern in mood. His Figuring the Forces exhibition features canvases ...
Pan American Art Gallery: International Guild of Realism Juried Exhibition
Participating artists:
Tom Cardamone
Larry Charles
Don Clapper (founding member of the Guild of Realism)
Dan Di Maria
(Rouaud) Isabelle du Toit (local)
Camille Engel
Ken Fuller
Albino Hinojosa
Lorena Kl...
Artemisia: Five exhibitions to open friday
CHRISTINE LoFASO, THE BODY PROJECT For several years LoFaso has worked with a range of media as a means of conveying ideas about the body and its many guises: social, political, sexual, psychological, spiritual. In the summer of 2000, she develo...
Colored Pencil Society of America: Call for Artists: Explore This 3
Open to all artists 18 years +, regardless of geographic location. Entry fees are nonrefundable. No preferential consideration is made during the judging process between members and nonmembers. Artist may submit one 35 mm slide for each 2-dimensio...
Rosalux Gallery: Pretty Please: Shawn McNulty and Scott Wenner
Shawn McNulty (www.shawnmcnulty.com) has been a founding member of Rosalux since it opened in 2002. His new work has taken on more of a simplified composition, with many coming across as abstract landscapes. He is still using his vibrant colo...
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, & Botanical Gardens: RUTH WEISBERG: CANTO V: A WHIRLWIND OF LOVERS
In Weisberg's monumental painting---a pensive exploration of the nature of passion and love---couples come together but remain emotionally separate, suggesting that despite the intensity of the moment in which the lovers should be transported, t...
Jessica Murray Projects: Moron by Scott Teplin / Spin Cycle by Jeff Scher

Bert Green Fine Art: Three Exhibitions of New Paintings: Scott Siedman, Jeff Britton, Jeff Gillette
In the Project Windows, Jason Chakravarty's neon installation (in association with the Museum of Neon Art), "Pickled - to preserve or flavor" uses light and ordinary objects as humanizing narratives. Parris Patton's "The Reverse Gravity of Glass" ...
futuremaybe: Oni Exhibitions
Scott Alberg, an MFA candidate at The Museum School, will be making his debut in futuremaybe with plastine sculptures of the Space Shuttle Challengerís explosion. His objects refer to an adolescent obsession with expositions and outer spac...
Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre: 2005 Ranamok Glass Prize
Finalists include: Helen Aitken-Kuhnen, Christian Arnold, Nicole Ayliffe, Joanna Bone, Lee Brogan, Rozlyn de Bussey, Emma Camden, Scott Chaseling, Cobi Cockburn, Rod Coleman, Scott Coleman, Matthew Curtis, Tali Dalton, Evelyn Dunstan, Nicola Edwar...
Portland Museum of Art: Degas, Rodin, and Moore: Bronzes by European Masters
The exhibition offers a varied sampling of bronze sculpture, mostly small scale and predominantly French and German, that chronicles nearly a century of activity. The earliest bronzes to be included date to the 1880s, such as Degas’s Fourth Posit...
David Scott Gallery: Pregnant Women Series
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Bamboo Lane Gallery: Made in LA: Photography by Brad Elterman, Estevan Oriol, Norman Scott
These pictures are haunting, candid, captivating affairs part Nan Goldin, part Diane Arbus, and all human. The magic in his photos lies in the intimacy reflected between the subjects and Elterman: Madonna is staring right at Elterman and his came...
Red Gate Gallery: Drawing Dust - Altitude: Works by Catherine Woo, Damian Smith, Jayne Dyer, Karen Casey, Martin King, Tony Scott
Evocative of stillness, a slowing down of time, of neglect and decay dust settles, drifts, gathers and protects. Seeking solitude and contemplation, artists have long sought the remoteness of the bush and the desert, their voice and vision trav...
Agnes Scott College: Call for Artists: Breather - A Design Conference
A schedule of speakers and panelists will include the following: Lars Spuybroek, the principal of NOX, an art & architecture studio in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and the Ventulett Distinguished Chair of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Te...
Almont Gallery: The Elemental Earth: Works by Gallery Artists
This exhibition continues through the end of January.IMAGE
Mike Fillus-Sherman
White Pot
raku fired ceramic...
Royal Festival Hall: MELTDOWN PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
Simon Leigh is the first photographer to be given full access to document the Meltdown festival which is now in its eighth year and has grown to become the South Bank's highest-profile and biggest-selling festival. Every year Melt...
Portland Museum of Art: Local Color: Six Contemporary Photographers
For most of its history as an art form, color photography has been viewed with suspicion. While color film was available as early as the mid-1930s, it was not widely used in art until the late 1960s. Early pioneers in color, like Ernst Haas and E...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: A Vision of Modern Art in Memory of Dorothy Walker
The exhibition is, fittingly, curated by a fellow writer and art critic Ciarán Bennett, who has made Dorothy Walker’s time as an outstanding art critic, from 1968 to 1982, the focal point of the show. This period was associated not only with the ...
National Ornamental Metal Museum: Some Like It Hot
Large scale pieces will be represented by photographs adjacent to the displayed smaller pieces by the following artists: John Medwedeff
Joe Bonifas
Nol Putnam
Philip Baldwin
Japh Howard
Bernie Hosey
Scott L...
Cafe Moskau - Cultural Center: Janinebean Gallery Shows Works by International Artists
A group exhibition with Karsten Krause/Germany, Sebstian Heiner/Germany, Mirko Tzotschew/Bulgaria/Germany, Scott Weiner/USA, Corinna Weiner (winner of the big art prize Berlin)/Germany, Pavel Forman/Czech Republic, Jumping Bean/Germany, Micos Mein...
Subject Matter Gallery: Collabro: Collaborations by over 68 Artists
The "Collabro" artists have teamed up in groups of two or more to create work all captured and connected in one gallery. Collaborative art pieces will have their artists revealed at the show opening. The show was curated by Poor Al and includes Jo...
Artspeak: unlocal: Gabor Koleszar and Jane Lee - Photographic Works; Howard Ursuliak: Text
unlocal is a project involving three Vancouver photographers connected through their engagement with a discreet observation of the material world and for whom photography maintains its status as document to the real. The exhibition will feature ne...
ARTworkSF - Mezzanine Gallery: San Francisco Sun Up to Sun Down
The warmth of day as the sun moves across The Citys verigated landscape, touching landmark structures and diverse neighborhoods along its path, gives way to the glow of night as the moon provides a backlight for life after sunset. As movement of...
Art Gallery of Hamilton: Modern Woman: Women Artists between the Wars
Recently discovered but in serious need of repair, a stunning painting has been restored to its former glory and added to the Art Gallery of Hamilton's permanent collection. A Northern Railway Town, Lake Superior c. 1935 by Rody Kenny Courtice (C...
Museum of Arts and Sciences: Crossing the Threshold with Thelma and Louise
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American Craft Museum: Stop Asking/We Exist: 25 African American Craft Artists
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Carnegie Museum of Art: Out of the Ordinary: The Architecture and Design of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates
Venturi Scott Brown and Associates (VSBA) is known for combining design elements in unexpected ways-an approach that has spurred some to include Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown among the founders of architectural Post modernism. Though t...
Viveza Gallery: Arterial: Organic Intersections of the New Cityscape
Each artist has their own, unique way of engaging the viewer in the ongoing discourse surrounding man- kind's role in nature. When taken together, these works emphasize a shift in ideas about urban living and the environment, as is refl...

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