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| Born | Elizabeth Violet Blackadder 24 September 1931 Falkirk, Scotland |
| Died | 23 August 2021 (aged 89) Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Edinburgh College of Art (1949–54) |
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| Website | Elizabeth Blackadder – Art UK |
Dame Elizabeth Violet Blackadder, Mrs Houston, DBE, RA, RSA, , , HonRWA, , , , (24 September 1931 – 23 August 2021)[1][2] was a Scottish painter and printmaker. She was the first woman to be elected to both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy of Arts.
In 1962, she began teaching at Edinburgh College of Art where she continued until her retirement in 1986. Blackadder worked in a variety of media such as oil paints, watercolour, drawing, and printmaking. In her still life paintings and drawings, she considered space between objects carefully. She also painted portraits and landscapes, but her later work contains mainly her cats and flowers rendered in great detail. Her work can be seen at the Tate Gallery, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York,[3] and has appeared on a series of Royal Mail stamps.[1]
In 2012, Blackadder was selected to paint Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond's official Christmas card.[4]
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- ^ "Scottish artist Dame Elizabeth Blackadder dies, aged 89". BBC News. 25 August 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
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