Jane Younger
Born1863
Glasgow, Scotland
Died1955 (aged 91–92)
Crawford, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
Known forPainting, embroidery

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

Biography

Younger was born in Glasgow into a prosperous 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 specialist 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 the 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. ^ a b c d e Jude Burkhauser, ed. (1990). Glasgow Girls Women in Art and Design 1880–1920. Canongate. ISBN 184195151X.
  2. ^ a b c d e David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 2, M to Z. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0-953260-95-X.
  3. ^ a b c d e 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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