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George Mackay Brown (1921–1996)

Ian Charles Scott (b.1957)

Stromness Museum

George Mackay Brown (1921–1996)

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George Mackay Brown (1921–1996), MBE, was a poet, author and playwright, who was inspired by his native Orkney's Norse history and sagas, folklore, landscape and people and also by his conversion to Roman Catholicism. His volumes of poetry include 'Loaves and Fishes', 'The Year of the Whale' and 'The Storm', and his novels, 'Greenvoe', 'Hawkfall', 'Vinland' and 'Magnus'. A collaboration with composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies on a libretto for the music-drama 'The Martyrdom of Magnus', based on his novel, launched the St Magnus Festival in 1977.

Stromness Museum

Stromness

Title

George Mackay Brown (1921–1996)

Medium

oil on board

Measurements

H 74 x W 55.7 cm

Accession number

2009.L 2

Acquisition method

on loan from a private individual

Work type

Painting

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Ian Charles Scott

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