Glen Douglas
James McBey
1927
Medium
pen and brown ink and watercolor on laid paper
Dimensions
sight size: 28.2 x 43.5 cm (11 1/8 x 17 1/8 in.) support (sealed mount): 38.1 x 51.2 cm (15 x 20 3/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.6114
About the Artist
James McBey
James McBey (1883–1959) was a Scottish artist renowned for his etchings and paintings, emerging from humble beginnings in Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, as the illegitimate son of a blacksmith's daughter. Largely self-taught, he left school at fifteen to work as a bank clerk in Aberdeen, where he devoured art books from the public library and attended evening classes at Gray's School of Art to hone his ...