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Artist: Gillies, William George, Sir, CBE RA RSA PPRSW · 1898-1973
The view bears very strong similarity to the pen and ink and watercolour painting of c.1937 by Gillies titled "Achgarve", in Perth Museum and Art Gallery and reproduced in colour on p.123, pl.128 of Soden and Keller's 1998 monograph on Gillies.
The amount of exposed ground in the foreground lends a sketchy appearance to the work which may indicate that it was painted in situ.
However the date of 1942, in the middle of the Second World War would correlate with a period when travel too far from his home in Temple village would have been far less easy for Gillies and so it is more probably a work painted in his studio from sketches.
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Date 1942 Accession G.1991.068 Type Painting Paint, oil Materials Support canvas
Medium Paint, oilDimensions Support
72cm x 82.3cmAcquisition Bequest Gillies, William George, Sir, CBE RA RSA PPRSW (1973) -
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