MARY ARMOUR RSA, RGIFA, LLD (1902-2000)

Eminent Scottish 20th century painter of still life and landscapes. Studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1920. Exhibited at many prestigious institutions from the 1930s onwards, including the Royal Academy, Royal Scottish Academy, Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, Scottish Society of Artists, and Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts (GIFA). She was awarded the Guthrie prize at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1937. In addition to her art practice, Armour was a lecturer in still-life painting at the Glasgow School of Art from 1951 – 1961. Awards and honours included full membership of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1958, the Cargill prize at the RGIFA in 1972, full membership of the RGIFA in 1977, and an honorary Doctorate from Glasgow University in 1982. In later life she was elected honorary president of both the Glasgow School of Art and the RGIFA.