Lot 4. Willie Rodger: 'Tyger Tyger'

At art school in the 1940s and 50s only the best draughtsmen got to do graphics and printmaking. By the time Willie Rodger had left Glasgow School of Art he had sold two prints to the Victoria and Albert Museum. He had found his medium. His work has been exhibited widely, at the Collins Gallery, Glasgow and the Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh as well as in various touring exhibitions and shows in London, and in 1971 he was Artist in Residence at Sussex University. Over the years Rodger’s commissions have included posters, calendars, book illustration, designing stained-glass, the hundred feet "Finnieston Mural" commissioned by Scotrail and even road signs in central Scotland.

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