Patrick Robertson (British, 1922-2009) Below the glacier w...

Patrick Robertson (British, 1922-2009) Below the glacier watercolour, signed and dated (19)91 lower right 21¾ x 16¾in (55.2 x 42.5cm), white painted and parcel gilt frame * Patrick Robertson was both an artist and a distinguished stage designer. Educated at Marlborough College and after WW2 service as a nighttime navigator with the RAF and then studying architecture at Cambridge, he found his calling in the theatre and started his career in 1950 as a scene painter at the Bristol Old Vic, soon becoming the theatre's Resident Designer through to 1960, when he moved to the Nottingham Playhouse, working most notably with Jonathan Miller on over 20 productions at the Playhouse and the National Theatre, plus a famous production of Jumpers starring Diana Rigg and Michael Hordern for Tom Stoppard at the NT in 1972. He relocated to London from Nottingham with his family in 1974 and worked extensively in the West End and Greenwich through the remainder of the 1970s. After retirement, Robertson returned to watercolours and was celebrated with an exhibition at the NT in 1992. One of his watercolours is featured in the Government Art Collection.

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