Glasgow Boy – Joseph Crawhall “Aunty Bee” Pen And Ink with Wash

Description

Artist : Joseph Crawhall (1861-1913)
Title : Aunty Bee
Medium: Pen and Ink drawing with brown/grey wash applied
Size: 21.5 x 28cm (landscape)
Frame : Gilt wood moulding
Restoration: None

Additional Information :

Inscription to lower left: “Aunty Bea” By Joseph Crawhall Signed E.C.Challoner

Further inscription to lower right: Sketch of Aunty Bea

Northumbrian-born Crawhall studied briefly in Paris in his early twenties. and is primarily known for his association with The Glasgow Boys with whom he was at the vanguard of the so-called ‘second wave’; the Impressionist body of work attributed to this renowned cadre was – for the most part – entirely at odds with the traditional canon of the artistic establishment. but Crawhall’s funeral was attended by the President of the achingly-conservative Royal Scottish Academy (Sir James Guthrie). indicative of the high regard in which he was held by even diametrically-opposed contemporaries.