Douglas Frederick Pittuck 1911 – 1993
British landscape painter in oils and watercolours, teacher.
Douglas Pittuck was born in London and educated at
Wallingford Grammar School. He studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford,
part-time in 1931–9, his studies were interrupted by conscription in 1940 when
he joined the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He later returned from
1946–8 full-time, where his teachers including Percy Horton, Eric Ravilious,
Allan Gwynne-Jones, Albert Rutherston and Barnett Freedman.
He showed work at the Cooling Galleries, Royal Society of British
Artists and at public galleries in Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne and
Darlington. He has had several one-man shows, at the Bowes Museum and Castle
Gallery, Barnard Castle. The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford holds examples of his
work. Douglas Pittuck was appointed Art Master at Barnard Castle School, a post
which he occupied for twenty-five years, influencing a generation of artists.
Lived in Barnard Castle, County Durham, where Glaxo
Laboratories commissioned a mural by him.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David
Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)