Monros (1940)

Edward Baird

oil on canvas

Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

Photo credit: Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

Classification:

Painting

Materials:

Oil, Canvas

Physical Object Description:

Townscape and hills as seen from afar; in the sky float a few round clouds. Signed Eba1.

Dimensions:

36 x 50.6 cm

Accession Number:

ABDAG002162

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1944

Scheme:

Historic Purchase by Purchaser (1914-2008)

Ownership history:

Purchased from Alex Reid & Lefevre Gallery, London by Sir Muirhead Bone (1876-1953) for the Contemporary Art Society, 16 July 1942; presented to Aberdeen Art Gallery, 1944

Relationship:

Muirhead Bone Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd (The Lefevre Gallery), London Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

Subject:

Townscape, Landscape, Hills

Edward Baird painted no more than 35 canvases within his short artistic career. He spent most of his life in Montrose, Scotland and the topography of the town repeatedly formed the subject of his pictures. Baird draws the staccato geometry of Montrose similar to an early Italian Renaissance artist painting San Gimignano in Tuscany. The clouds overhead are reminiscent of surrealist painting.

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Artist Bio

Edward Baird

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