A Painting is Worth a Thousand Words

In three days' time, it will be a month since I came to Glasgow. In that time, I've visited some of the many museums there are in this city, and I've chosen some of the paintings I've seen to share them with you. I like art, though I'm no art critic, so I wouldn't be able to say much more of the paintings below than that I like them for some reason or other (mainly aesthetic pleasure or because they make me think/feel). That is why this won't be a wordy post =) All the info about the titles, dates, techniques and authors is from the museums' webpages.

Hunterian Gallery

"Le Voile Persan" 1909
Oil on board
John Duncan Fergusson (Scottish; 1874-1961)

"Salmon Nets and the Sea" 1960

Oil on board

Joan Eardley (Scottish; 1921-1963)

"Moniaive" 1885

Oil on canvas

James Paterson (Scottish; 1854-1932)

"The Gypsy Fires are Burning for Daylight's Past and Gone" 1881

Oil on canvas

James Guthrie (Scottish; 1859-1930)

Cartoon for "The Fighting Peacocks" 1876

Chalk and wash on brown paper pricked for transfer

James McNeil Whistler (American; 1834-1903)

"A Goldfinch on the Branch of a Cherry Tree" c. 1881

Oil, pencioil, pencil and gold paint on cream card

Beatrix Whistler (English; 1857-1896)

"Still Life and Rosechatel" 1924

Oil on canvas

Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (Scottish; 1883-1937)

Kelvingrove Museum

"The Scotsman" 1987
Photograph installation
Ron O'Donnell

Gallery of Modern Art

"Representational Error" 2013
Tony Swain (Irish; 1967-)

"Setting" 2012
Pencil, correction fluid and ink on catalogue page
Louise Hopkins (English; 1965-)




What do you think about the paintings I've chosen? Do you like any of them in particular? =)