Bill Scott (Hollis Taggart Galleries)
(Exhibition catalog)
2011Zarobell, John (Essay)
32 pages (color)
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Born 1956 Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Known for: Abstract botanical painting.
Bill Scott's paintings lie within the cultural continuum of the Philadelphia colorist tradition, passed on to him and his contemporaries through mentors such as painters Quita Brodhead and Jane... Read full biography
Bill Scott's paintings lie within the cultural continuum of the Philadelphia colorist tradition, passed on to him and his contemporaries through mentors such as painters Quita Brodhead and Jane Piper, who were themselves students of Arthur B. Carles, the pioneer of Philadelphia modernism. Also a... Read full biography
Bill Scott's paintings lie within the cultural continuum of the Philadelphia colorist tradition, passed on to him and his contemporaries through mentors such as painters Quita Brodhead and Jane Piper, who were themselves students of Arthur B. Carles, the pioneer of Philadelphia modernism. Also a student of the recognized abstractionist Joan Mitchell, Scott fuses his local artistic heritage together with the raw energy embedded in her abstractions. It is this unique combination of... Read full biography
Bill Scott's paintings lie within the cultural continuum of the Philadelphia colorist tradition, passed on to him and his contemporaries through mentors such as painters Quita Brodhead and Jane Piper, who were themselves students of Arthur B. Carles, the pioneer of Philadelphia modernism. Also a student of the recognized abstractionist Joan Mitchell, Scott fuses his local artistic heritage together with the raw energy embedded in her abstractions. It is this unique combination of influences—including abstract compositions, saturated color, calligraphic line, large scale, and pure vitality—that drive Scott's paintings and instill them with expressive spirit. The underlying geometry of brilliantly colored patchworks in Scott's paintings... Read full biography
Bill Scott's paintings lie within the cultural continuum of the Philadelphia colorist tradition, passed on to him and his contemporaries through mentors such as painters Quita Brodhead and Jane Piper, who were themselves students of Arthur B. Carles, the pioneer of Philadelphia modernism. Also a student of the recognized abstractionist Joan Mitchell, Scott fuses his local artistic heritage together with the raw energy embedded in her abstractions. It is this unique combination of influences—including abstract compositions, saturated color, calligraphic line, large scale, and pure vitality—that drive Scott's paintings and instill them with expressive spirit. The underlying geometry of brilliantly colored patchworks in Scott's paintings evokes the sensations and textures of collage. Complementing these blocks of color are often overlying, dark lines... Read full biography
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Bill Scott (Hollis Taggart Galleries)
2011Bill Scott: Recent Paintings
2009Scott, Bill (Hollis Taggart Galleries)18 pages (color)Bill Scott: Looking Through
2007
(Exhibition catalog)interview by Berman, Avis (Hollis Taggart Galleries)32 pages (color)The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesBill Scott: Process and Continuity (Hollis Taggart Galleries)
2004
(Exhibition catalog)Boyle, Richard J.14 pages (color)The Art of Watercolor (Revised Edition)
1994LeClair, Charles144 pages