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1930/35 Connecticut - 2000 Bonn, Germany. Known for: Painting and sculpture.
Douglas Swan was born to Scottish parents in Connecticut, United States of America, but moved to Carnoustie on the east coast of Scotland with his family in 1936 at the age of six. After completing... Read full biography
Douglas Swan was born to Scottish parents in Connecticut, United States of America, but moved to Carnoustie on the east coast of Scotland with his family in 1936 at the age of six. After completing his National Service he studied at the Dundee College of Art from 1943 - 1953 where his teachers... Read full biography
Douglas Swan was born to Scottish parents in Connecticut, United States of America, but moved to Carnoustie on the east coast of Scotland with his family in 1936 at the age of six. After completing his National Service he studied at the Dundee College of Art from 1943 - 1953 where his teachers included the landscape painter James MacKintosh Patrick and Hugh Adam Crawford. Swan took a brief residency at Patrick Allan Fraser's Hospitalfield House, Arbroath, where he studied under Ian Fleming and... Read full biography
Douglas Swan was born to Scottish parents in Connecticut, United States of America, but moved to Carnoustie on the east coast of Scotland with his family in 1936 at the age of six. After completing his National Service he studied at the Dundee College of Art from 1943 - 1953 where his teachers included the landscape painter James MacKintosh Patrick and Hugh Adam Crawford. Swan took a brief residency at Patrick Allan Fraser's Hospitalfield House, Arbroath, where he studied under Ian Fleming and received a Post Graduate Diploma. He also studied at Trinity College of Music in London. He began exhibiting at the Royal Scottish Academy, and was awarded the RSA scholarship in London in 1954. It was here that he met and formed a lasting friendship... Read full biography
Douglas Swan was born to Scottish parents in Connecticut, United States of America, but moved to Carnoustie on the east coast of Scotland with his family in 1936 at the age of six. After completing his National Service he studied at the Dundee College of Art from 1943 - 1953 where his teachers included the landscape painter James MacKintosh Patrick and Hugh Adam Crawford. Swan took a brief residency at Patrick Allan Fraser's Hospitalfield House, Arbroath, where he studied under Ian Fleming and received a Post Graduate Diploma. He also studied at Trinity College of Music in London. He began exhibiting at the Royal Scottish Academy, and was awarded the RSA scholarship in London in 1954. It was here that he met and formed a lasting friendship with the artist William Scott (1913-1989) with whom he painted together in Somerset and then in Cornwall. In 195... Read full biography
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- •Collage and/or Decoupage