David McClure RSA RSW

1926–1998

McClure was a painter, teacher and writer, born in Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire.

He was educated at Queen’s Park School in Glasgow and Edinburgh University, and attended Edinburgh College of Art, 1947–52, winning a travelling scholarship in 1952–3, then becoming an Andrew Grant Fellow, 1955–7.

Between 1957–85 he taught painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, in Dundee. Wrote monograph on the painter John Maxwell.

McClure’s painting occasionally adopts the slightly mystical qualities of Maxwell’s work, but he is instantly recognisable as a rich Colourist.

Elected RSA in 1971 and showed widely in group shows in Scotland and elsewhere.

One-man exhibitions began in 1957 with Circolo di Cultura, Palermo; others included Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh; and Thackeray Gallery, London.