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1866 Hilltown, United Kingdom - 1945. Known for: Figure, landscape, symbolist, romantic painting.
John McKirdy Duncan (1866-1945). Duncan is one of the unsung heroes of the international Symbolist movement. He is little known outside his native Scotland, and his work was hailed as a revelation... Read full biography
John McKirdy Duncan (1866-1945). Duncan is one of the unsung heroes of the international Symbolist movement. He is little known outside his native Scotland, and his work was hailed as a revelation when many of the finest examples were seen in the Last Romantics exhibition at the Barbican in 1989.... Read full biography
John McKirdy Duncan (1866-1945). Duncan is one of the unsung heroes of the international Symbolist movement. He is little known outside his native Scotland, and his work was hailed as a revelation when many of the finest examples were seen in the Last Romantics exhibition at the Barbican in 1989. Born in Dundee, the son of a cattle dealer, Duncan was studying at the Dundee School of Art by the age of eleven. After three years in London doing hack work for publishers, he continued his studies in... Read full biography
John McKirdy Duncan (1866-1945). Duncan is one of the unsung heroes of the international Symbolist movement. He is little known outside his native Scotland, and his work was hailed as a revelation when many of the finest examples were seen in the Last Romantics exhibition at the Barbican in 1989. Born in Dundee, the son of a cattle dealer, Duncan was studying at the Dundee School of Art by the age of eleven. After three years in London doing hack work for publishers, he continued his studies in Antwerp and Dusseldorf and spent a winter in Rome, where he developed an ardent admiration for Michelangelo. Back in Dundee, he became a member of the local Graphic Arts Association, and in 1908-9 he shared a studio with the brilliant but... Read full biography
John McKirdy Duncan (1866-1945). Duncan is one of the unsung heroes of the international Symbolist movement. He is little known outside his native Scotland, and his work was hailed as a revelation when many of the finest examples were seen in the Last Romantics exhibition at the Barbican in 1989. Born in Dundee, the son of a cattle dealer, Duncan was studying at the Dundee School of Art by the age of eleven. After three years in London doing hack work for publishers, he continued his studies in Antwerp and Dusseldorf and spent a winter in Rome, where he developed an ardent admiration for Michelangelo. Back in Dundee, he became a member of the local Graphic Arts Association, and in 1908-9 he shared a studio with the brilliant but short-lived George Dutch Davidson (1879-1901), whom he greatly influenced. However, from 1892 he was mainly based in Edinbur... Read full biography
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeThe legend of Orpheus In the first section Orpheus tames Cerberus and leads Eurydice from Hades. The second section shows Orpheus playing the lyre for Pluto and Persephone, then looking back at Eurydice as she follows him from the underworld. In the final
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