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          Craigie Aitchison (painter)

          Scottish painter

          Craigie Aitchison

          Aitchison in April 1989.

          Born(1926-01-13)13 January 1926

          Edinburgh, Scotland

          Died21 December 2009(2009-12-21) (aged 83)
          OccupationPainter

          John Ronald Craigie AitchisonCBERSARA (13 January 1926 – 21 December 2009) was a Scottish painter.[1] He was best known for his many paintings of the Crucifixion,[2] one of which hangs behind the altar in the chapter house of Liverpool Cathedral,[3] Italian landscapes, and portraits (mainly of black men, or of dogs).

          His simple style with bright, childlike colours defied description, and was compared to the Scottish Colourists, primitivists or naive artists, although Brian Sewell dismissed him as "a painter of too considered trifles".[1]

          His career-long fascination with the crucifixion was triggered by a visit to see Salvador Dalí's Christ of St John of the Cross in 1951 after it was acq