Anne Redpath (1895–1965) was a Scottish artist whose brightly-coloured
domestic still-lives are among her best-known works. Her father was
a tweed designer in the Scottish Borders and she attended Edinburgh
College of Art from 1913. Post-graduate study led to a scholarship
which allowed her to travel on the Continent in 1919, visiting Bruges,
Paris, Florence and Siena. The following year she married the architect
James Michie and they went to live in Pas-de-Calais where her first
two sons were born. In 1924 they moved to the South of France, and
in 1928 had a third son.
Redpath was president of the Scottish Society of Women Artists from
1944 to 1947. The Royal Scottish Academy admitted her as an associate
in 1947, and in 1952 she became the first woman Academician. In 1955
she was made an OBE. Redpath is perhaps best-known for her still-lives
where familiar household objects are rendered as two-dimensional designs.
Her works are represented in many public collections in the UK and
overseas.