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Acrylic on canvas

signed, titled & dated '96, verso

52.00inch wide    28.50inch high    (132.08 cm wide  72.39 cm high)

59.00inch framed width   36.00inch framed height   2.15inch framed depth (149.86 cm framed width  91.44 cm framed height  5.46 cm framed depth)

Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery

Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Poussin Gallery, London.
2006 Cross Street Gallery, London; Flowers East, London.
2005 Flowers, New York.
2003 Flowers Central, London; Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh;Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh.
2000 Flowers East, London; Flowers Graphics, London;
Bourne Fine Art,
Edinburgh; Flowers East, London;
Art Placement Saskatoon, Canada.
1999 Flowers East, London; Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh.
1998 Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh.
1997 Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.
1994 Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London; Talbot Rice Gallery,
University of Edinburgh.
1991 Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.
1989 Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London; Edinburgh College of Art.
1988 Kapil Jariwala, New York; Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London.
1987 Kapil Jariwala, London.
1986 Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh.
1985 Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh.
1984 Martin Gerrard Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta,
1983 Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London.
1982 Artspace Galleries, Aberdeen touring to Dundee, St. Andrews and Edinburgh; Byck Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky.
1981 Art Placement, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
1980 Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London.
1978 House Gallery, London.
1975 Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh

JOHN McLEAN (b.1939)

‘Barlanark’
acrylic on canvas - signed, titled & dated'96 verso - 28.5x52ins
John McLean was a painter of abstracts, including distinctive lozenges, stokes and swirls of colour, and teacher, born in Liverpool. His influences include “post-war American and Canadian painting, Matisse, Miro and Braque. John McLean’s father was the artist Talbert McLean and he was based in London. He studied at St Andrews University, 1957-62, and at Courtauld Institute of Art, 1963-6.
After the Courtauld, McLean went on to teach at Chelsea School of Art, Goldsmiths’ College, Canterbury School of Art and University College. He lived in New York between 1987 and 1989 and was short listed for the Jerwood Prize in 1995.
McLean’s pictures are in several dozen public and corporate collections, including Tate Gallery, Arts Council, British Council, Contemporary Art Society, Scottish Arts Council, De Beers, Wellcome Foundation and elsewhere.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Arts Council of Great Britain.
Basildon Development Trust.
British Council.
Camden Central Library, London.
Contemporary Art Society.
Department of the Environment.
Dundee Museum and Art Gallery.
Edinburgh City Art Centre.
Federated Union Black Artists,S. Africa.
Fitzwilliam Museum
Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries.
Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride.
Hunterian Collection.
Jesus College, Cambridge.
London University.
Royal Jamaican Academy.
Scottish Arts Council.
Scottish National Gallery Modern Art,
Southampton City Art Gallery.
Swindon Art Gallery.
Tate Gallery, London.
University of Edinburgh.
University Hospitals, Coventry and Warwickshire.
University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
University of St. Andrews.
Warwick Arts Trust.
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Accenture.
Anglo American, London.
Archant, Norwich.
Arjuna Maritime, Greece.
Arthur Andersen & Co., London.
Bain and Co., Boston, USA.
Broadgate Centre, London.
Brown Foreman, USA.
BZW, London.
Canadian Potash Corporation.
Canpotex, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Capital Holdings, USA.
De Beers, London.
Heron Marine Ltd., London.
H J Heinz Corporation, USA.
Linklaters, London.
Michael Laurie & Partners, London.
Morgan Grenfell.
Royal Bank of Scotland.
Sainsbury p.l.c.
Schroeders Investment Management,
Scorpio Aviation & Marine, London.
Scottish Equitable, Edinburgh.
Simmons and Simmons.
Standard Life, Edinburgh.
Stanhope Properties, London
Wellcome Foundatio