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GORDON COUTTS
(1868-1937)
Born in Aberdeen, Scotland Gordon Counts is best known for desert
landscape painting especially of Southern California and for his
powerful portraits.
He began his art studies in Glasgow and continued in London and Paris at the Julian Academy under Jules Lefebvre. He married artist Alice Gray, whom he met in Paris, and they spent several years in Melbourne, Australia. He was an instructor at the Art Society of New South Wales in Sydney. In 1899, he exhibited at the royal Academy in London. In the early 1900’s, he and Alice moved to the San Francisco area, and he became an active member and exhibitor of the Bohemian Club.
An itinerant traveler, Coutts went on to many remote areas including Africa and Morocco looking for unique subject matter. His paintings during that time were of colorful market and ceremonial scenes with the occasional stunning portrait. In 1918, while on safari in Africa, Alice filed for divorce and they parted ways. Coutts painted throughout the Southwest including Canyon de Chelly, where he painted the land and the Indians that lived there. He remarried and had a daughter who is now a painter in her own right.
In 1925 searching for relief from his tuberculosis, he moved to Palm Springs, California, and built a French Moroccan style villa like the ones he had seen in Tangiers. He died of heart failure in 1937, and his house in Palm Springs still exists as a small hotel called Korakia.
He began his art studies in Glasgow and continued in London and Paris at the Julian Academy under Jules Lefebvre. He married artist Alice Gray, whom he met in Paris, and they spent several years in Melbourne, Australia. He was an instructor at the Art Society of New South Wales in Sydney. In 1899, he exhibited at the royal Academy in London. In the early 1900’s, he and Alice moved to the San Francisco area, and he became an active member and exhibitor of the Bohemian Club.
An itinerant traveler, Coutts went on to many remote areas including Africa and Morocco looking for unique subject matter. His paintings during that time were of colorful market and ceremonial scenes with the occasional stunning portrait. In 1918, while on safari in Africa, Alice filed for divorce and they parted ways. Coutts painted throughout the Southwest including Canyon de Chelly, where he painted the land and the Indians that lived there. He remarried and had a daughter who is now a painter in her own right.
In 1925 searching for relief from his tuberculosis, he moved to Palm Springs, California, and built a French Moroccan style villa like the ones he had seen in Tangiers. He died of heart failure in 1937, and his house in Palm Springs still exists as a small hotel called Korakia.
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