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William Irvine was born in Scotland in a small coastal town. He took up painting when he was about twelve years old. By the time he was fourteen he knew that painting would be his life’s pursuit. He graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in drawing and painting then did his compulsory service in a Scottish regiment before settling in London for the next ten years. There he painted, exhibited and did odd jobs for the occasional plate of spaghetti. Having married an American girl while in London, he moved with his wife to Maine in the late 60s, first to Washington county, then Blue Hill and now Brooklin.

BORN
Troon, Scotland         
Graduate, Glasgow School of Art

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine, 1986-present
Studio E, Palm Beach, Florida, 2003-2006
Shaw Gallery, Northeast Harbor, Maine, 2003, 2005, 2007
Firehouse Gallery, Damariscotta, Maine, 2002-present
McGrath Dunham Gallery, Castine, Maine, 2001 -2006
George Marshall Store Gallery, York, Maine, 2005  
Eastland Gallery, Portland, Maine, 2001
Carnegie Museum, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, 2000
Davidson and Daughters, Portland, Maine, 1996, 1999
Leighton Gallery, Westford, Massachusetts, 1995
Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1993
June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine, 1992
Bayview Gallery, Portland, Maine, 1989
Noel Butcher Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1982-1986
Leighton Gallery, Castine, Maine, 1982
John Little Gallery, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1980
Rudolph Gallery, Woodstock, New York and Miami, Florida, 1968-1976
Drian Gallery, London, England, 1960, 1962
Parton Gallery, London, England, 1960
McLellan Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, 1958
Carnegie Library, Ayr, Scotland, 1949

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, Maine, 2007-present
Elan Gallery, “Maine Landscape,” Rockport, Maine, 2007
George Marshall Store Gallery, York, Maine 2007-present
Maine Center for Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine, 2006
Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, Maine, 2006         
Penobscot Marine Museum at Searsport, “Bring in the Marines,” 2002
Carnegie Museum, Summer Exhibition from the Permanent Collection, 2000
Monmouth Museum, “Spirit Of The Coast”
Mast Cove Gallery, Kennebunkport, Maine
Gregory Boon Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Greenhut Gallery, Portland, Maine
Congress Square Gallery, Portland, Maine
American Art Cultural Center, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC
Munson Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Shore Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Portal Gallery, London, England
Scottish Arts Council Artists International Association, London, England
Blue Hill Library
Marine Environmental Research Institute

PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Carnegie Museum, University of Maine, Orono, Maine
Scottish Arts Council
Hand and Flower Press
Marine Environmental Research Institute
Rouse Corporation
                 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Maine Home + Design, Suzanne McEvoy, August 2008
Maine Painters, Carl Little, editor, September 2006
Maine Sunday Telegram, Philip Isaacson, 2001
Maine Times, Feature Article, Donna Gold, 2000
Bangor Daily News, Feature Article, 2000
Art New England, Carl Little, 2000
Bangor Daily News, Alicia Anstead, 1999
Portland Press Herald, 1999
Maine Sunday Telegram, Ken Greenleaf, 1996
Preview, 1993
Portland Press Herald, 1992
The Maine Times, 1991
The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1983
Art News, Ann Jarmusch, 1983
Maine Life, 1979
The London Observer, 1960

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