Type Drawing / Watercolor
Period 1945 to 1999
Technique Watercolor
Carrier Paper
Style Impressionist
Subject Architecture
Framed Framed
Dimensions 35 x 55 cm
Incl. frame 55 x 75 cm
Signed Hand signed
Description
James Miller RSA RSW, (1893 - 1987)
Technique Watercolor
Medium paper
Subject City view
Framed
Dimensions 35 cm x 55 cm (hxw)
Frame 55 cm x 75 cm (hxw)
Signed
Born in Dennistoun, Glasgow. Painter of portraits, still lifes and animals, sometimes in oil but mainly in watercolor. Educated Glasgow School of Art under Greiffenhagen and Anning Bell, then in Paris. His watercolors are highly composed with sharp contours and subdued washes. In the 1920s and 1930s he traveled extensively abroad, working in the Mediterranean and also on the west coast of Scotland, especially on Skye, where he had a house. In Paris he made studies of the street scenes of the period and continued to make the architecture of the great cities of Europe his primary subject, with particular attention to the architectural heritage of Spain. During the First World War he made a number of sketches of war damage and of Glasgow, subjects well suited to his rather heavy treatment.
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