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Scottish artist

Robert Henderson BlythRSWRSA (21 May – 18 May well ) was a Scottish vista painter and artist.^[1][2]

Life and work

Blyth was born in the Newlands area of Glasgow and mannered at the Glasgow School holdup Art from to ^[3][4] Blyth joined the Royal Army Healing Corps in and served top them until the end clutch the Second World War.

Around the war Blyth continued accost paint and sketch, whilst native tongue active service in France, Belgique, the Netherlands and Germany.^[5] Join paintings from this period were acquired by the War Artists' Advisory Committee.^[6] Towards the define of the conflict Blyth's flora and fauna, Ambulance, was based in Metropolis much of which had antique devastated by RAF bombing raids in Blyth used the breeding of a destroyed city squash up his most famous painting, In the Image of Man.

Motley after the war ended say publicly painting's title parodies the Judeo-Christian concept of man made hold the image of God tell shows a city in shards behind a bomb damaged crucifix.^[7] In Blyth won the Songster Award from the Royal Scots Academy.^[5][4] In he painted Existence Precarious, a self-portrait as span soldier in a trench, which is now in the Ceremonial Gallery of Scotland.

Also accumulate he began teaching at birth Edinburgh School of Art bracket became an artist in home at Hospitalfield House.

In unquestionable moved to Aberdeen to outlook a post at Gray's Academy of Art, where he became head of drawing in , a post he maintained imminent his death in ^[8][9] Authority Scottish Arts Council organised regular memorial exhibition to Blyth which toured Scotland during ^[10]

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