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Pritchard, Walter
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1905-1977
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Stained glass, mural and decoration artist, painter and teacher who in 1940 married the stained glass artist Sadie McLellan. He was born in Dundee, his father a photographer, and was educated at Florian's Venice, Italy and in Munich, Germany. In 1927, he gained his diploma from Dundee School of Art, winning a scholarship and travelling scholarship. He was a stained glass instructor at Edinburgh College of Art in the 1930s, becoming an assistant in the design and crafts department of Glasgow School of Art, 1947-8, was in 1953-4 made senior assistant and retired 1970-1. Among his notable students was Fyffe Christie, at the School in 1946-51, who assisted Pritchard on a big mural for St Francis-in-the-East, Bridgeton, Glasgow. He had earlier completed four windows for the New City Chambers, Dundee. Pritchard, who listed religion and poetry among his recreations, did much work in Catholic churches, including a painted ceiling at St Columbkille's, Rutherglen. Pritchard exhibited at the RA, RSA, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and SSA.
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Buckman, David, Artists in Britain Since 1945