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Obituary: William Hardie, art expert who ran hit Edinburgh Festival exhibitions and his own gallery

Obituary: William Hardie, art expert who ran hit Edinburgh Festival exhibitions and his own gallery Murray Grigor William Hardie, art expert. Born: 27 September, 1941 in Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Died: 22 January, 2021 in East Kilbride, aged 79 © William Hardie proved that a commercial gallery in Glasgow could be a player on the world stage Of the many events in Glasgow s Year of European City of Culture few endured longer than the William Hardie Gallery launched in 1990. In the following decade Hardie would mount, with his assistant Fiona Roberston, art exhibitions from home and abroad. He brought David Hockney and his latest pictures over from California and attracted 10,0000 visitors. Hardie proved that a commercial gallery in Glasgow could be a player on the world stage, as well as a promoter of Scottish art. In one stroke this cultural commando scotched the slurs of those Thames Valley Provincials whose line was: Scottish painting – does it exist?

Obituary: William Hardie, who caused a stir by exhibiting new paintings by Hockney

Died: January 22, 2021. IT was 1993, and considerable interest was stirring in the world of Scottish art: the world-renowned David Hockney would, for the first time, be exhibiting his paintings in this country. The venue was the William Hardie Gallery at 141 West Regent Street, Glasgow. In 1992 Hardie had begun accompanying his friend John Cox, Scottish Opera’s artistic director, to Los Angeles to meet Hockney, Cox having engaged the artist to design the sets and costumes for a Covent Garden production of Richard Strauss’s Die Frau Ohne Schatten. Hardie and Hockney got to know each other well and the result was that Hockney agreed to let the gallery exhibit 22 of his latest paintings, which he had begun after finishing his set designs.

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