William Scott; Award-Winning British Artist

William Scott, 76, a British artist acclaimed for his still-life paintings and drawings of simple foods and kitchen utensils. Scott represented his country successfully at art festivals throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In 1961, he won the international critics’ prize at the Sao Paulo Biennale. In 1966, he was named a Commander of the British Empire. He was noted above all for his paintings of objects such as kitchen pots and pans, baskets and bottles, eggs and loaves of bread laid out on kitchen tables. In London on Thursday of the complications of Alzheimer’s disease.