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Edward Baird (1904 – 7 January 1949) was a Scottish artist, known for his portrait painting.
Painter and teacher, born in Montrose, Angus, where poor health confined him for most of his life. After education at Montrose Academy he attended Glasgow School of Art, 1923–7, winning the Newbery Medal as top student of his year.
Often described as a Scottish Surrealist, Baird is equally known for his association with the Scottish Renaissance movement. His artistic output was relatively small, due to his perfectionism, time-intensive manner of working and his early death at the age of forty-five.
Today, Edward Baird is a substantially over-looked figure in the history of twentieth-cen-tury Scottish art. This is perhaps surprising given the artist’s profile during his lifetime. Baird was a regular exhibitor at both the Royal Academy and its Scottish counterpart in the 1930s and 1940s, having been the top
May 8, 2004 · IT’S ALWAYS EXCITING TO COME ACROSS a forgotten artist and that is what the current exhibition at the Fleming Collection in London proposes - the rediscovery of Scottish painter Edward Baird.
Baird was born in Montrose in 1904 and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1924 to 1927. He became a close friend of James McIntosh Patrick, sharing his painstaking approach to realism. Baird returned to Montrose after graduating and lived there for the rest of his life, painting local subjects...
T1 - Portrait of a young Scotsman: a life of Edward Baird. AU - Blackwood, Jonathon. N1 - Based on entirely new primary research drawing on family archives among other slight resources, this was the first substantial critical monograph on Baird’s life and work, with funding from the AHRB and published for the artist’s centenary.
