Easdale

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James McIntosh Patrick
Born Dundee, 1907-1998

Easdale, 1928

Oil on board
Presented 1998 by the artist's family through the Fine Art Society, London
Museum number 1998-155

Although Patrick was famous for the last 50 years of his life for his paintings of the cultivated Angus and Perthshire landscapes, he was attracted to the dramatic west coast of Scotland in his youth. Easdale is near Oban.

He later painted a finely detailed large scale version of this subject. This work, flatly painted rather like a poster, is characteristic of his early painting style - before he developed his characteristic fine impasto.