William MacTaggart (1903 – 1981)
View all Artists- Biography: William MacTaggart FRSE RA RSA was born in Loanhead, the grandson of William McTaggart, also a painter. He studied at Edinburgh College of Art, visited Paris, then set up a studio in Edinburgh. With fellow ECA graduates William Gillies, William Crozier and William Geissler he started an exhibiting society – the 1922 Group.
Anne Redpath and John Maxwell were also contemporaries and friends. This group later became known as the Edinburgh School. He was also a younger member of the Society of Eight which included Scottish Colourists Peploe and Cadell. In 1931 he was influenced by a Munch exhibition in Edinburgh, and in 1937 married the Norwegian Fanny Aavatsmark, organiser of that exhibition.
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