This a Very Famous Painting. If you move in circles where C20 Scottish painting or poetry is a known quantity that is. It normally lives in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, although at present it's 'on tour' in Montrose.
It shows almost all the great C20 poets and is by the Scottish painter Alexander Moffat. Sadly it doesn't show my particular poet although he is not the only one missing - in any case it was never meant to be a picture of the Flower of Contemporary Scottish Poetry. It's still quite a good collection though.
Now long term readers of this blog may remember a while back when my Director of Studies promised me that doing my Ph D was going to be a time of Joyous Opportunities. I have to say that to date the joyous opportunities have been conspicuous by their absence rather than their presence. But last week a day of joyous opportunity finally arrived.
I got to talk to Alexander Moffat. In person. Just him and me. About his picture and the people in it (and some of the people not in it!) and painting in the 1950s and 60s in general and it was great.
Wow, what an opportunity! A memory to cherish :)
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