David Shanks Ewart
{{Short description|UK artist (1901–1965)}}
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David Shanks Ewart (21 December 1901 – 12 October 1965) was a Scottish painter, born in Glasgow. He went to the Glasgow School of Art just after the First World War. He won the Guthrie Award in 1926 with his work The Toilers.{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000164/19260417/091/0005|title=Dundee Courier – Saturday 17 April 1926 | via= British Newspaper Archive}}
Life
David Shanks Ewart was born in Glasgow at 117 Henderson Street, North Woodside, Glasgow. His parents were James Ewart (18 April 1866 – 2 December 1949) and Agnes Waddell Shanks (10 July 1861 – 4 August 1932).
He married Gwendolyn Robertson (30 September 1900 – 1984) on 8 August 1928 at Hartwood in North Lanarkshire. They had 3 children; two daughters and one son.{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19651013/135/0005|title=The Scotsman – Wednesday 13 October 1965 | via= British Newspaper Archive}}
During the Second World War he was a Volunteer Reserve in the Royal Navy from 1941.
Art
He went to the Glasgow School of Art from 1919, graduating in 1924.{{Cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/ewart-david-shanks-19011965|title=Ewart, David Shanks, 1901–1965 | Art UK|website=artuk.org}} He won a travelling scholarship in 1924 and travelled to France and Italy.The Dictionary of Scottish Painters. 1600 to the present. Paul Harris and Julian Halsby. Canongate Publishing. 1990.
At the 1926 Royal Scottish Academy exhibition, his work The Toilers won the 1926 Guthrie Award.
The Glasgow Art Club Spring exhibition saw Ewart exhibit The Night Watchman{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000577/19270226/036/0004|title=Aberdeen Press and Journal – Saturday 26 February 1927 | via= British Newspaper Archive}}
He exhibited with the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts in 1927. His works Loch Coruisk and The Return{{Cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-return-211300|title=The Return | Art UK|website=artuk.org}} were noted in The Scotsman, stating that they suffered as a sequel to his The Emigrants.{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19271001/122/0012|title=The Scotsman – Saturday 01 October 1927 | via= British Newspaper Archive}}{{Cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-emigrants-183236|title=The Emigrants | Art UK|website=artuk.org}}
He taught at the Glasgow School of Art for a brief period.
He was accepted as an Associate member of the RSA in 1934.
In the Paisley Art Institute exhibit of January–February 1939, Ewart provided a portrait of a young girl Eve Sylvia.{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19390125/162/0014|title=The Scotsman – Wednesday 25 January 1939 | via= British Newspaper Archive}}
In the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts exhibit of October 1939 in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Ewart entered a portrait of James Muir D. Sc.{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19391028/064/0011|title=The Scotsman – Saturday 28 October 1939 | via= British Newspaper Archive}}{{Cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/professor-james-muir-18751945-ds-ma-artc-finstp-155745|title=Professor James Muir (1875–1945), DS, MA, ARTC, FInstP | Art UK|website=artuk.org}}
Primarily a portrait painter, from 1946 he travelled annually to the United States to paint wealthy American industrialists for six months of every year.
Death
He died on 12 October 1965, in Glasgow in a nursing home.
Works
His work These Shall Our Hearts Remember is in Hull Museum at the Ferens Art Gallery.{{Cite web|url=http://museumcollections.hullcc.gov.uk/collections/search-results/display.php?newsearch=new&person=Ewart++David+Shanks&keywords=&title=&place=&date=&material=&accessionnumber=&sorton=date&ImagesOnly=yes&Sender=List&Page=1&irn=476&hasoverview=yes|title=Search Results – Hull Museums Collections|website=museumcollections.hullcc.gov.uk}}
He created portraits of dignitaries like Sir John Stewart, Lord Provost of Glasgow{{Cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/sir-john-stewart-lord-provost-of-glasgow-19351938-83904|title=Sir John Stewart, Lord Provost of Glasgow (1935–1938) | Art UK|website=artuk.org}} and Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound.{{Cite web|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/8826|title=Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, GCB, OM, GCVO|website=Imperial War Museums}}
A self-portrait is in the National Galleries of Scotland.
There are works by a Ewart in Morocco in 1939, but there is no evidence to suggest that David Shanks Ewart went to Morocco at that time. These works are also stylistically different from David Shanks Ewart's work.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dominicwinter.co.uk/Auction/Lot/387-ewart-david-shanks-1901-1965/?lot=145196&sd=1|title=Lot 387 – Ewart (David Shanks, 1901–1965).|website=www.dominicwinter.co.uk}}
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Category:Scottish male painters