Barbara Davis Rae CBE RA FRSE was born on 10 December 1943 and is a Scottish painter and printmaker.
10 Facts About Barbara Rae
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Barbara Rae is a member of the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy of Arts.
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Barbara Rae exhibited in her first solo show in 1967 at the Edinburgh's New 57 Gallery.
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Barbara Rae was appointed as a member of the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland in 1995.
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Barbara Rae became a member of the Royal Academy of Art in 1996.
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Barbara Rae is a Royal Etcher, a Fellow of the Royal College of Art, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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Barbara Rae's work is held by institutions including the University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, British Museum, National Museum of Women in the Arts, and Whitworth Art Gallery.
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Barbara Rae has homes in Scotland, Los Angeles, and France and often travels elsewhere in Europe and the southwest United States.
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Rather than mixing paints on a palette, Barbara Rae applies unmixed acrylic paints to the canvas itself and then pours fluid over them to blend them.
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Barbara Rae has said that she does not regard herself as a Scottish artist, though her "relationship with the landscape and history of the west coast of Scotland" has inspired much of her art.