Last night’s documentary on The Glasgow Boys, presented by Muriel Gray, was an interesting survey of the exhibition, Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880 – 1900, currently on in Glasgow…

Schoolmates (1884). by Sir James Guthrie (Scottish painter, 1859-1930).

Sir James Guthrie (1859-1930) was one of the Glasgow Boys, a group of late-19th century Scottish painters influenced by French realist Jules Bastien-Lepage. Like some other artists of middle-class origin in those days, his family sent him to university with the idea that he would practice law. And like the others he abandoned that line of education to take up art, though his art training came largely by self-education. Regardless of how he mastered his skills, Guthrie became one of the most…

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Sir James Guthrie

James Guthrie - To Pastures New (1883). Of it is kind it is a masterpiece.

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James Guthrie - Poppleton, The Artist at Work,1882

In the Orchard, James Guthrie

Last night’s documentary on The Glasgow Boys, presented by Muriel Gray, was an interesting survey of the exhibition, Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880 – 1900, currently on in Glasgow…

Last night’s documentary on The Glasgow Boys, presented by Muriel Gray, was an interesting survey of the exhibition, Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880 – 1900, currently on in Glasgow…