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Bill Scott

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Bill Scott (Born 1956) is active/lives in Pennsylvania.  Bill Scott is known for Abstract botanical painting.

Bill Scott's paintings lie within the cultural continuum of the Philadelphia colorist tradition, passed on to him and his contemporaries through mentors such as painters Quita Brodhead and Jane Piper, who were themselves students of Arthur B. Carles, the pioneer of Philadelphia modernism.  Also a student of the recognized abstractionist Joan Mitchell, Scott fuses his local artistic heritage together with the raw energy embedded in her abstractions.  It is this unique combination of influences—including abstract compositions, saturated color, calligraphic line, large scale, and pure vitality—that drive Scott's paintings and instill them with expressive spirit.

The underlying geometry of brilliantly colored patchworks in Scott's paintings evokes the sensations and textures of collage.  Complementing these blocks of color are often overlying, dark lines that serve to weave the pictorial arrangements together.  Of this new compositional element   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 12242 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Bill Scott available:    Jane Piper,  Elizabeth C Osborne,  Quita Brodhead,  Warren Rohrer,  Stuart Shils,  Bo (James William) Bartlett III,  Edna Andrade,  Artist Unknown,  March Avery,  Humbert Howard,  Sally Michel,  Max Ernst,  Lowell Nesbitt,  Larry Rivers,  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson,  Red (Charles Rogers) Grooms,  Rolph Scarlett,  Claes Thure Oldenburg,  Robert Natkin,  Helen Frankenthaler,  Harry Bertoia,  James Havard,  Francisco Zuniga,  Wolf Kahn



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Facts about Bill Scott

   Publications  Book References:  6
Magazine References:  5

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5 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Bill Scott
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Review of Exhibitions December 2004 Editors, Art in America Yes
American Artist Editor's Note October 2004 Doherty, M Stephen No
ARTnews Strikingly Diverse October 2003 Newhall, Edith Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions November 2002 Editors, Art in America Yes
American Artist Perspective From Both Side Artists September 1999 Frankel, Karen Yes
6 Book References for Bill Scott
Year Author Title Pages Color
2011 Zarobell, John (Essay) Bill Scott (Hollis Taggart Galleries)
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 Yes
2009 Scott, Bill (Hollis Taggart Galleries) Bill Scott: Recent Paintings 18 Yes
2007 interview by Berman, Avis (Hollis Taggart Galleries) Bill Scott: Looking Through
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2004 Boyle, Richard J. Bill Scott: Process and Continuity (Hollis Taggart Galleries)
(Exhibition catalog)		 14 Yes
1994 LeClair, Charles The Art of Watercolor (Revised Edition) 144 No
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