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Scottish painter, jewellery designer and jazz musician. The first young British abstractionist to win international reputation after World War II.  

James Alan Davie, born Sept 28, 1920 in Grangemouth, Scotland as son of a painter and etcher. He studied at the Edinburgh College of Art from 1937 to 1940. While in the army in WW2, he concentrated on his other artistic talents as poet and jazz musician(alto- and tenorsax, piano); member of the Tommy Sampson Orchestra, touring in England.

 After the war he travelled extensively in Europe, and in Venice he was introduced to the work of American abstract painters like Pollock, Motherwell and Rothko (Collection Peggy Guggenheim). more