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Churchyard No.1, pen/ink and watercolor, signed l/r,
11" x 16" sight, 18"
x 23"
frame.
About the Painting: Excellent condition.
About the Artist: Born Dalbeattie, Kirkcudbrightshire, he
began to study at ECA in 1921 together with
GILLIES, who was in his last year as a student.
In 1926 he won a travelling scholarship and
spent a period working in Paris under Léger
and Ozenfat at the Académie Moderne.
French Symbolist art fascinated him, espceially
the drawings and lithographs of Odilon Redon,
and he was also deeply impressed by the vivid,
evocative work of Marc Chagall. In 1929 he
joined the staff at ECA, and assisted the
Principal, GERALD MOIRA, on murals for St.
Cuthbert's Church. He saw Moira's fluent
handling of watercolour and his vivid sense
of colour. In 1934-5 Maxwell executed a series
of murals for Craigmillar School, Niddrie.
Maxwell and Gillies went on many painting
trips together, the first being to Kirkcudbrightshire
in the late 1920s followed by visits to Morar,
Ardnamurchan and the Kyle of Lochalsh in
the 1930s. Their approach to painting was
very different: Gillies worked in a spontaneous
manner, wheras Maxwell created, slowly and
painstakingly, his own inner vision. He experimented
with mixtures of watercolour, pen-and-ink,
chalk and gouache and during the 1930s moved
away from landscape towards single figures
or heads set in imaginary landscapes.
In 1943 Maxwell left the College on grounds
of ill health and retired to Dalbeattie to
concentrate on his own work. William Gillies
persuaded him to return to teach in Edinburgh
in 1955, taking the post of Senior Lecturer
in Composition, but he died aged 57 after
a long period of ill-health. - from The Dictionary of Scottish Painters 1600-1960.$ 1500.00
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