Sarah Gough Adamson

Sarah Gough Adamson
Born1888
Manchester, England
Died1963 (aged 74–75)
NationalityBritish
Alma materEdinburgh College of Art
Known forLandscape painting

Sarah Gough Adamson, later Sarah Gough Walker, (1888–1963) was a British artist. Although she was born in Manchester, Gough established her reputation as a landscape painter in Scotland.

Biography

Adamson was born in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester around April to June 1888. Her Scottish father, Robert Adamson, was for a time a professor of philosophy at Owens College in Manchester, before he moved back to Scotland.[1]

Adamson studied at the Edinburgh College of Art before she moved to London, some time around 1915.[2] Before leaving Scotland, Adamson was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Scottish Academy, showing some 29 pictures, including watercolours and gouache pieces, there between 1911 and 1915.[2] During her career she also exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, with the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and at the Aberdeen Artists' Society.[2][3] In Paris, Adamson exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais in 1913 and in 1924 she won a silver medal at the Decorative Arts Exhibition in Paris.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ Sara Gray (2009). The Dictionary of British Women Artists. Casemate Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7188-3084-7.
  2. ^ a b c Peter J.M. McEwan (1994). The Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-134-1.
  3. ^ Paul Harris & Julian Halsby (1990). The Dictionary of Scottish Painters 1600 to the Present. Canongate. ISBN 1-84195-150-1.
  4. ^ Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 1 A-Bedeschini. Editions Grund, Paris. 2006. ISBN 2-7000-3070-2.
  5. ^ Grant M. Waters (1975). Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950. Eastbourne Fine Art.