Hugh MacDiarmid
Artist
Benno Schotz
(Arensburg, Estonia, 1891 - 1984)
AssociatedAssociated with
Hugh MacDiarmid
(Langholm, Scotland, 1892 - 1978)
Date1950-1974
Mediumbronze
ClassificationsSculptures
DimensionsOverall: Height: 39.5 cm, Width: 24.5 cm, Depth: 26 cm
AcquisitionPurchased in 1980.
Copyright© Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture
LocationOn Display - Gallery 18
Object numberABDAG004706
Keywords
A writer who was both a Communist and a Scottish nationalist, MacDiarmid’s name was included on a list of Communist sympathisers compiled for the British government by George Orwell in 1949.
Exhibitions
Benno Schotz
Sir Jacob Epstein
