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Donald McFadyen (March 1, 1960 - September 6, 2005) was a Scottish painter best known for his detailed photorealist oil paintings. He was born in Glasgow and graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone in 1981. In 1982, he left Scotland for the Art Institute of Chicago where he studied for his MFA. Apart from a six-month sojourn working in New York in 1989, he was to remain in Chicago, living in his large Pilsen studio and teaching part-time at the Art Institute. He was represented by Dart Gallery in the mid-1980's. In the 1990s until his death, he was represented by the Zolla Lieberman Gallery in Chicago and Althea Viafora in New York. Donald McFadyen was diagnosed with cancer in the spring of 2005 and returned to his native Scotland with his wife, Peggy Kottos and daughter, Leia for the remainder of his life. He passed away at age 45 in Dundee. Weegee, Edward Hopper and Grant Wood as well as David Lynch and Luis Bunuel. An ambitious artist, McFadyen was an intensely serious and well-read man who had little time for the much-hyped American art scene. tiny and perfectly realised works hung with spare elegance in the smart minimalism of the Dart Gallery in 1984

the above is copied an pasted from donald's obituary in the scotsman

below is language from the 1987 times article - cloistered and mysterious McFadyen generally works in a palette that recalls Goya`s late paintings. Blacks and browns dominate tableaux that we perceive only through details: the corner of a room, refuse on a street, folded hands. the uncanny

reader article high contrast look of black and white film noir

notes discuss his collection of newspaper source materials by the thousands the ambiguity, cinematic quality, drama pathos, suspense.

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