Louise Gibson Annand-MacFarquhar [commonly known as Louise Gibson Annand; also known as Louise Annand and as Louise Annand MacFarquhar] was the daughter of Emma Gibson and Walter D. Annand. She was born in Uddingston, Lanarkshire, Scotland on 27 May 1915. She read English at Glasgow University from 1933 to 1937; and trained as a teacher at Jordanhill Training College in Glasgow in 1937-38. She also attended evening classes at Glasgow School of Art from 1938 to 1944. From 1944 to 1949 she taught at various schools in Glasgow. From 1949 to 1980 she was employed by Glasgow Museum Education Services as an assistant at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, and as Museums Education Officer from 1970 to 1980. Concurrent with her career in the education sector, Annand worked as a painter and documentary film-maker.
Her paintings ranged from abstracts to large atmospheric oils of Scottish landscapes. Late in her life she began painting the figure and her last painting was a nude.
In 1957 she was elected a member of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists and served as President of the Society from 1977 to 1979 and 1988 to 1991. She was also President of the Society of Scottish Women Artists from 1963 to 1966 and from 1980 to 1985; and a member of the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland from 1979 to 1986. From 1982 to 2000 she was Chair of the J. D. Fergusson Art Foundation.
In the early 1950s she began directing and producing short documentary films. These included At The Museum (1953); Sauchiehall Street Roof Tops (1956) History of Lighting (1959); the History of Glasgow Tram Cars (c.1962); and a film on Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1965). She was Chair of the Scottish Educational Film Association (SEFA).
Annand was the author of A Glasgow Sketch Book: A Quarter-Century of Observation (1988), and J. D. Fergusson in Glasgow, 1939-1961 (2003).
She died in Glasgow on 6 January 2012.
Text source: Art History Research net (AHR net)
Text source: Art History Research net (AHR net)
