William Scott (1913-1989)
Frying Pan, Eggs and Napkin, 1950
Oil on canvas, 74 x 91 cm
NGI 2010.5 Purchased, 2010
In his practice Scott was drawn to analysing the shapes, textures and contours of everyday objects, and perhaps more significantly to the compositional arrangements and dynamics that they suggested. In returning to mundane domestic objects like pots and kitchen utensils, and culinary ingredients, Scott was working in a long-standing artistic tradition. By his own admission, however, he was not interested in the objects themselves, but viewed them instead as ideal elements with which to construct his pictures. As a consequence, the same ordinary items - pans, lids, forks, bottles, lemons and fish – recur throughout Scott’s work of the late 1940s and 1950s.
