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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Steven Morris

Paintings by UK pioneer of abstract art to be displayed in West Country

Ochre Still Life (1958) will feature in the Beauty in Plainness – William Scott in Somerset exhibition in Taunton
Ochre Still Life (1958) will feature in the Beauty in Plainness – William Scott in Somerset exhibition in Taunton. Photograph: William Scott/Tate/Tate Images

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.

Three large-scale paintings by William Scott (1913 –1989) have been loaned to the Museum of Somerset in Taunton, not far from the artist’s home and studio in the countryside south of Bath.

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