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Description
Fine Scottish Marine Painting Winter Night Seaside Beach West Renfrewshire Scotland Illuminated Moonlight by James Downie Robertson RSA.
Make a big statement, amaze your clients & guest by adding a touch of Scotlands impressionist night time beauty to your office & home wall space with this postwar Scottish masterpiece.
Title “Night Beach” by James Downie Robertson.
Medium Goauche, with a front protective glas cover.
Subject landscape view of a Scottish beach in West Renfrewshire set in winter time set at night.
Signed near the bottom corner by the known Scottish artist James Downie Robertson and also inscribed by the artist verso.
Set in the original frame, with hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home wall display.
Your first notice about this painting is the bright moon which illuminates the beach & sea & has such interesting perspective. You can really feel the peace and tranquility in this scene. The different blue, black, white, grey & yelllow hues are so vivid and and really stand out which you will adore. In our opinion this is one of his very fine works.
Artist biography James D Robertson, MBE (2 November 1931-7 January 2010) was a Scottish Postwar & contemporary artist painter and senior lecturer at the Glasgow School of Art. He played an influential role in the Scottish visual arts scene for nearly five decades. James Downie Robertson was born in Cowdenbeath in 1931, one of twin boys. His family moved to Glasgow at the start of the Second World War and he attended Hillhead High School. He then studied at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) under the redoubtable David Donaldson and Joan Eardley. Graduating in 1953, Robertson spent some time in Spain but later accepted a teaching post at Keith Grammar School from 1957 to 1958.
He entered the Glasgow School of Art in 1949 on a non-diploma course. In 1955, he was awarded a post-diploma and spent the summer of that year at Hospitalfield. After leaving the Glasgow School of Art he spent 18 months as a non-certified teacher at Keith Grammar school. In 1959 he joined the staff of the Glasgow School of Art initially on a part-time basis, ultimately becoming a Senior Lecturer and temporary Head of Drawing and Painting before his retirement in 1996. From 1996 to 1998, he held the post of resident painter at the Glasgow School of Art. His work is held many public and private collections including Prince Philip and The Queen Mother. He died on 7 January 2010 after a short illness.
In October 2010 a memorial exhibition was held at the Glasgow Art Club. His artworks have sold at auction houses around the world the highest sold price was $15478 Us dollars which was for Winter Landscape that sold at Christie’s.
His awards 1962 Elected member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (Rsw). 1971 Cargill Award (Rgi.1975 May Marshall Brown Award (Rsw). 1980 Elected member of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. 1981 Sir William Gillies Award (Rsw). 1982 Cargill Award (RGI). 1985 Shell Expo Award. 1987 Graham Munro Award (RSW). 1987 Millersville University award Millersville University of Pennsylvania, USA. 1989 Elected full member of the Royal Scottish Academy (Rsa). 1989 Scottish Amicable Award (Rsa). 1993 Scottish Post Office Award (Rsw) 1999 Rsw Council Award (Rsw). 2001 Dunfermline Building Society Prize (Rsa). 2002 Hon D.Litt.University of Glasgow. 2010 Member of the Order of the British Empire Order of the British Empire.
Sources Obituary, scotsman.com; accessed 29 May 2016. Obituary: James D Robertson, The Scotsman, 13 January 2010 Obituary: James D Robertson; Artist, Heraldscotland.com, 11 January 2010. Appreciation: James D Robertson; an appreciation, The Herald, 11 January 2010 James D Robertson Memorial Exhibition Archived 8 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, 26 September 2010.
Provenance Glasgow School of Art Exhibition in 2000, former property of Alan Stewart & in collection of Cheshire Antiques Consultant.
Such a delightfull happy scene to the eye.
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measurements
Height:
59.5 mm
Width:
61 cm
Depth:
1.5 cm
measurements
declaration
Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD has clarified that the Painting Moonlight Seaside Night Beach by James Downie Robertson RSA (LA483818) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being Late 20th Century
declaration
condition
condition
Offered in fine used condition. Front painting surface is in very good overall order. The frame having various general wear, scuffs, minor chips, stains, losses & in areas commensurate with usage & age.