ART PROPAGANDA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 24 November 1938, Page 16

ART PROPAGANDA

SCOTTISH PAINTING [By Air Mail Own Correspondent) LONDON, 20th October. The Exhibition of Scottish Art which the Royal Academy is holding from 6th January to 11th March, 1939, is designed to display the finest achievements of Scottish Art through the last throe centuries. Scottish painting emerges with the uume of George Jamesone, and pictures with established dates are known from 1620 onwards. By the middle of the Seventeenth Century Scottish artists were working in London—Michael Ramsay as Painter in Ordinary to George 111, leading on to Wilkie, Geddes, and many other Scots who have achieved academic distinction in England. Other Scots have remained at home, and their work is little known outside Scotland. Raeburn lived and worked in Edinburgh, except for his early two years in Italy and occasional visits to London. To mention merely the names of past presidents of the Royal Scottish Academy William Allan, Watson Gordon, Harvey, Macnee, Fettes Douglas, George Reid, James Guthrie, Lawton Wingate—is to suggest an art largely unknown outside Scotland. This Exhibition will offer an introduction to their work and to that of many other Scottish artists of high accomplishment.