Paintings by UK pioneer of abstract art to be displayed in West Country
Large-scale William Scott works feature in exhibition that tells story of artist’s friendship with Mark RothkoThe story of how one of the UK’s great abstract painters was inspired by ordinariness – and the extraordinary meeting he had with an American artistic giant – is being told in a new...
<p>Large-scale William Scott works feature in exhibition that tells story of artist’s friendship with Mark Rothko</p><p>The story of how one of the UK’s great abstract painters was inspired by ordinariness – and the extraordinary meeting he had with an American artistic giant – is being told in a new exhibition in the West Country.</p><p>Three large-scale paintings by William Scott (1913 –1989) have been loaned to the <a href="https://swheritage.org.uk/museum-of-somerset/">Museum of Somerset in Taunton,</a> not far from the artist’s home and studio in the countryside south of Bath.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/nov/02/paintings-william-scott-west-country-museum-of-somerset">Continue reading...</a>
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