13 Facts About Alberto Morrocco

Alberto Morrocco was a Scottish artist and teacher.

Alberto Morrocco is famous for his works featuring landscapes of Scotland and abroad, still-life, figure painting and interiors, but perhaps his best known works are his beach scenes and views of Venice.

Alberto Morrocco's father had an ice cream shop in the city and the signwriter accidentally wrote the name as Morrocco and the name then stuck.

Alberto Morrocco studied at Gray's School of Art under Robert Sivell between 1932 and 1938, and in France, Italy and Switzerland.

Alberto Morrocco is famous for his landscape paintings of Scotland and abroad, still life, figure painting and interiors, but perhaps his best known works are his beach scenes and views of Venice.

From 1950 onwards Alberto Morrocco spent his professional life in Dundee, as Head of the School of Painting at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, which is part of the University of Dundee.

Alberto Morrocco produced murals for St Columba's Church in Glenrothes and for Royal Dundee Liff Hospital in Dundee.

Alberto Morrocco had a spectacular retirement, producing some of his most vigorous work in the period from 1982 to his death.

Alberto Morrocco died at his home, Binrock House in Dundee, on 10 March 1998.

Alberto Morrocco painted portraits of all its Principals and, in 1977, the Queen Mother as Chancellor.

Alberto Morrocco was awarded the San Vita Romano Prize and both the Guthrie Award and the Carnegie Award of the Royal Scottish Academy, where he was elected Fellow in 1962.

Alberto Morrocco served on the Scottish Arts Council and the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland and was appointed OBE in 1993.

Alberto Morrocco was a member of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour.