Redpath, Anne, OBE ARA RSA LLD
1895 – 1965
Daughter of a tweed designer Redpath studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1913 winning two travelling scholarships to France and Italy. As a result of these trips the art of the Italian Primitives was to prove a lasting influence upon her work. She married the architect James Michie in 1920 and moved to France for fifteen years living in St Omer and the South of France. Raising her family interrupted her career as an artist for a time but she resumed her work upon her return to Hawick in 1934. She became President of the Society of Scottish Women Artists in 1944 and an Associate Member of the RSA. She moved to Edinburgh in 1949 and soon became the central focus of the Edinburgh art community. In 1952 she made history when she became the first woman painter to become a Royal Scottish Academician. She is best known for her landscapes and still life paintings. She exhibited at the RSA from 1919 until 1964. One of her sons, the painter Professor David Alan Redpath Michie, was also a fully elected Member of the RSA.
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