Earl Haig - Artist Info

About Earl Haig

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Earl George Alexander Eugene Douglas Haig
  • Biography

    Obituary. The Guardian, July 14, 2009

    Earl Haig

    A painter of renown who struggled to escape from his father's shadow

    by Andrew Roth

    Dawyck Haig, the second Earl Haig, who has died aged 91, spent a lifetime struggling to decide whether he was primarily a fine modern painter or the son of Field Marshal Douglas Haig, Britain's commander-in-chief in the first world war. After an early breakdown, his psychoanalyst recommended that Dawyck should concentrate on his painting.

    This he did, and he began exhibiting soon after the second world war. He had his first London exhibition at the Redfern Gallery in 1949 and at the Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh the same year. It was not until 1956, ...

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