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Paterson, George William Lennox

1915 – 1986

The son of an architect, he studied at Glasgow School of Art and following active service he joined the staff there as an Assistant in the Commercial Art Department in session 1947/48 where his students included Willie Rodger RSA RGI DUniv. He remained at GSA where he taught Commercial and Graphic Art (wood engraving) 1949/50 to 1960/61 and Graphic Design 1961/62-1963/64. From 1964/65 to 1974/75 he was Registrar and Deputy Director, and Deputy Director in session 1975/76. His career finished as head of the Department of Design which post he held from 1975/76 to his retirement in 1979. In 1946 he was the winner of the RSA Guthrie Award. That same year the war Artists' Advisory Board purchased three of his oil paintings for the Imperial War Museum collections, an earlier attempt by Paterson in 1939 had been unsuccessful. He illustrated a number of books and wrote two instruction manuals for Dryad; Scraperboard (1960) and Making a Colour Linocut (1963). The Glasgow print Studio mounted a major retrospective exhibition of Paterson's Graphic Work 1937-84 in 1985 with the catalogue introduction written by Ian Fleming RSA.



An image from the RSA collection.