The Red House, Durisdeer
Artist: Gillies, William George, Sir, CBE RA RSA PPRSW · 1898-1973
The work may have been painted in situ on one or other of Gillies' two recorded trips to Durisdeer, a small village in rural Dumfries and Galloway in southern Scotland.
He first visited in September 1933 and returned the following August.
The landscape hovers on the cusp of near total abstraction with only the red house of the title and the right hand tree trunk rooting it as a pictorial representation of a seen view.
The house is built of local red sandstone and stands at the west side of the A702 trunk road at the end of the road linking the A702 with the A76, close to Durisdeer Village Hall.
© Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture
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Date c.1933 - c.1934 Accession G.1991.247 Materials Support canvas Dimensions Sight
76.7cm x 90.2cm
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88.3cm x 103.7cmMedium Paint, oil -
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