Hi - I'm interested in the Dance Rhythm painting in this post - do you know who owns it? Where did you find the image? I am curating the show A New Era: Scottish Modern Art 1900-50 for the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and would love to include it, or something similar. Thank you, Alice Strang astrang@nationalgalleries.org
June 7, 2017 at 2:09 AM
Scottish painter Eric Harald Macbeth Robertson (1887-1941) is essentially a cipher, so far as information about him on the Internet is concerned. In fact, most of what I could find regarding him was on this Wikipedia entry dealing with his first wife, Cecile Walton (1891-1956), daughter of the Glasgow Boy, Edward Arthur Walton.
The link above mentions that he was trained in architecture, but shifted his attention to painting. From the evidence of a photo of him in uniform in the link along with a painting (see below), Robertson served in some capacity in the Great War. Finally, it seems that he was a heavy drinker, this affecting his peculiar marriage arrangement and quite likely his artistic career.
So why am I bothering to write about Robertson? Because he is one of those painters who flipped back and forth between traditional painting and various degrees of modernism -- sometimes even working those styles at around the same time. Moreover, I find many of his images appealing. Others seem to be of the same mind because, even though there is essentially no biographical information, the Internet has a fair number of images of his paintings.
Gallery
[Image]Spring - 1913
[Image]Beauty Luxuriant - ca. 1919?
[Image]Shellburst
[Image]Robert the Bruce and de Bohun
[Image]The Daughters of Beauty (part)
[Image]Cartwheels - ca. 1920-21
[Image]Dance Rhythm
[Image]Cecile - 1922
[Image]Wynne Walker (the artist's later wife) - ca. 1924
posted by Donald Pittenger at 1:00 AM on Mar 13, 2015
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Close this window Jump to comment formHi - I'm interested in the Dance Rhythm painting in this post - do you know who owns it? Where did you find the image?
I am curating the show A New Era: Scottish Modern Art 1900-50 for the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and would love to include it, or something similar.
Thank you,
Alice Strang
astrang@nationalgalleries.org
June 7, 2017 at 2:09 AM