Background
Sutherland was born in Wick, Caithness in 1883 and began to study law but moved to Edinburgh to work as an apprentice in a lithographic business.
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David Sutherland
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Edinburgh College of Artist
Career
He left that post to study at the Royal Scottish Academy (Republic of South Africa ), under Charles Mackie, and at the Edinburgh College of Artist Sutherland was awarded the Republic of South Africa Carnegie Travelling Scholarship in 1911 and travelled to Spain, France and the Netherlands. A year later he joined with Alick Riddell Sturrock, John Guthrie Spence Smith, William Mervyn Glass, Eric Robertson, William Oliphant Hutchison and later Adam Bruce Thomson to form the Edinburgh Group of young Scottish artists sharing a studio at 21 Picardy Place, Edinburgh.
He returned to the Edinburgh College of Art, and with Mary Newbery and Dorothy Johnstone ARSA (1892-1980), helped to revive the Edinburgh group.
He taught the gifted students William George Gillies and William McTaggart. David Sutherland left Edinburgh in 1933 to take up the Directorship of Gray"s School of Art in Aberdeen, now part of Robert Gordon"s University.
During World World War II he was appointed an Official War Artist recording Newfoundland lumberjacks on Deeside. He was Inspector of Arts in the Highland Division and painted the landscapes of the North West coast of Scotland including Caithness, Wester Ross, Plockton and Aberdeenshire.
The Sutherlands retired to east Aberdeenshire in 1948.
David Sutherland is mainly known for his Scottish and Breton landscapes and portraits with many on display at the Aberdeen Art Gallery. He died in Plockton on 20 September 1973.
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Scottish