David McClure (artist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

David McClure (artist)

Scottish artist and lecturer

Date of Birth: 20-Feb-1926

Place of Birth: Lochwinnoch, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 20-Feb-1998

Profession: painter

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

David McClure RSA RSW (20 February 1926 – 20 February 1998) was a Scottish artist and lecturer.
He is most well known for his paintings of still lifes, interiors, figures and family portraits as well as his landscape and townscape paintings of Scotland, Italy, Sicily and Spain where he lived and travelled throughout his life. Born in Lochwinnoch in 1926, McClure graduated in the early 1950s from Edinburgh College of Art.
In his early career he spent significant periods working in Spain, Italy, Sicily and later Norway.
He spent the majority of professional life in Dundee where he lived with his wife and family and taught at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art (now part of the University of Dundee) from 1958 and spent the last two years of his career there as head of painting, a post he took over from his friend, colleague and fellow artist, Alberto Morrocco, before retiring in 1985.