Craigie Aitchison was a Scottish Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1926. How much does a Craigie Aitchison cost? Craigie Aitchison's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with ...

Craigie Aitchison, the artist, who died on December 21 aged 83, conformed to no school or fashion but earned critical esteem and public popularity as an artistic loner; his spare but powerfully ...

For 50 years, the painter Craigie Aitchison drew on the same small repertoire of images: crucifixions, Italian landscapes, portraits of black men and pictures of dogs, usually Bedlington Terriers.

Scottish painter Craigie Aitchison was dismissed by some critics as twee. But the brightness and warmth in his work give it a compelling edge, as Adrian Hamilton discovers at the first show since ...

Aitchison was one of the country’s most successful artists, known for his vibrant colours, flat two-dimensional forms and icon-like compositions. His key subjects were crucifixions, still lives ...

It was 1952 when a soft-spoken Scotsman entered the Slade School of Fine Art. Accompanied by his beagle named Somerset, he attended on a part-time basis at first. Few could have missed Craigie ...

John Ronald Craigie Aitchison was born in Edinburgh, the son of Craigie Mason Aitchison, KC, first socialist lord advocate for Scotland. Son of a United Free minister, Craigie’s father reacted ...

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A self-portrait by the late Craigie Aitchison, who defaced it after an onlooker called it "flattering", is bought by the National Portrait Gallery in London.

A self-portrait by the late Craigie Aitchison, who defaced it after an onlooker called it "flattering", is bought by the National Portrait Gallery in London.