Jane Younger

Jane Younger (1863–1955) was a Scottish artist known for her watercolour paintings and embroidery work.

Biography

Younger was born in Glasgow, into a properous family involved in the cotton trade.[1] She studied at the Glasgow School of Art for ten years until 1900, when she enrolled at the school of animal painting run by Joseph Donovan Adam.[2] She also studied in Paris in the studio of Gustave Courtois and at the École des Beaux-Arts.[3] While still a student she joined the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists.[2]

Younger's sister, Anna married the publisher Walter Blackie of the publishing company Blackie and Son in 1889.[3] When Blackie commissioned Charles Rennie Mackintosh to design Hill House in Helensburgh, Younger was asked to design several pieces for the house, including bedspreads and she also painted a watercolour of the house's garden as part of Mackintosh's interior design for the property.[1] For Blackie and Son, Younger designed bookplates for their specialest Prize Books.[1] In 1902 she visited Switzerland and exhibited work at the Turin Exhibition.[1]

Between 1906 and 1922 Younger shared a studio on West George Street in Glasgow with Annie French and Bessie Young.[3][4] She later settled in Edinburgh but also painted on Arran and in France.[3][2] Younger often painted in watercolours and developed a colourful and bold technique, comparable to pointillism in effect.[3] She exhibited with the Royal Scottish Academy, the Society of Women Artists, the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and the Royal Scottish Watercolour Society.[2] the Cooling Galleries and he Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool also held exhibitions.[2] She died in Crawford in South Lanarkshire and a gravestone designed by her marks the site of the Younger family tomb in the Glasgow Necropolis.[1]

References
  1. Jude Burkhauser (Editor) (1990). Glasgow Girls Women in Art and Design 1880–1920. Canongate. ISBN 184195151X.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  2. David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 2, M to Z. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0 953260 95 X.
  3. Paul Harris & Julian Halsby (1990). The Dictionary of Scottish Painters 1600 to the Present. Canongate. ISBN 1 84195 150 1.
  4. Sara Gray (2009). The Dictionary of British Women Artists. The Lutterworth Press. ISBN 97807 18830847.
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