Anne Redpath was the daughter of a textiles designer. From 1913 to 1919 she attended the Edinburgh College of Art. She continued her training in Paris, Florence and Siena. When she got married she accompanied her husband, the architect James Beattie Michie, to France in 1920, and stopped painting to look after her family. In 1934 she returned to Edinburgh and took up painting again. Various academies presented her with awards. From 1919 onward she exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy exhibitions, but only showed her work there again regularly from 1935, and then practically every year until she died, each time with several works. She was elected to the Royal Scottish Academy in 1952. She also took part in many group exhibitions but mainly held solo shows. In her early career she produced mostly still-lifes, then later focused on landscape painting. She was active in Paris, the South of France, Italy, Spain, Brittany and Corsica. In her work she was clearly influenced by the inter-war School of Paris, and her painting is tasteful, decorative, and in a tradition somewhere between Maurice Brianchon and André Marchand. She was considered one of the most important Scottish painters of her time.

Solo Exhibitions

1965, Anne Redpath: A Memorial Exhibition, Arts Council of Great Britain, Scottish Committee, Edinburgh
1979, 1995, Aberdeen Art Gallery
1996, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Museum and Gallery Holdings

Aberdeen (AG): White Cyclamen (1962, oil on canvas); Flowers in a Teapot
Adelaide (AG of South Australia)
Brighton (Hove Mus. & AG): Cups and Saucers (1949, oil/panel); Altarpiece (c. 1963, oil/panel)
Brisbane (Queensland AG)
Coventry (Herbert Art Gallery and Mus.)
Dundee (McManus Galleries)
Edinburgh (Royal Scottish Academy): The Chapel of St John - Treboul (c. 1954, oil on panel)
Edinburgh (Scottish Nat. Gal. of Modern Art): Landscape at Kyleakin (c. 1958-1960, oil/panel); White Tulips (c. 1963, oil/card); The Indian Rug (Red Slippers) (c. 1942, oil/panel, front)
Glasgow (AG and Mus.): Place de l'Institut, Paris
Greenock (McLean Mus. and AG): Le Croix de St Jean, Trebould (c. 1955, oil on panel)
Harrogate (Mercer AG): Flower Study (oil/panel)
Kendal (Abbot Hall AG)
London (Tate Collection): Lenten Roses (1960, watercolour/panel); The Poppy Field (c. 1963, oil on canvas)
Manchester (City AG): Table Top (c. 1961, oil/panel)
Newcastle upon Tyne (Laing Art Gallery)
Perth (AG of Western Australia)
Sydney (AG of New South Wales): A table at a window (c. 1949, oil on canvas)
Vancouver (AG)
Wellington (Mus. of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa)