- NMC/0695R
- Item
- c1902-1903
Grape vines II.
Porteous, James Henry
Grape vines II.
Porteous, James Henry
Circular flowers.
Porteous, James Henry
Pink and yellow lillies.
Porteous, James Henry
Yellow and red poppies.
Porteous, James Henry
Yellow swathe of flowers.
Porteous, James Henry
Yellow and red flowers.
Porteous, James Henry
Yellow flowers.
Porteous, James Henry
Pink and yellow flowers.
Porteous, James Henry
In 1896 McNair held his first one-man show, an exhibition of pastels at the Gutekunst Gallery, London. Twenty-one works, including this, were displayed in distinctive dark-stained wood frames. McNair had clearly drawn inspiration from Whistler’s exhibition installations, even down to the typesetting of the catalogue. The entry for this work explained, ‘The Fairy is guarding the Leaf of Love from the Witch of Evil who has robbed the Tree of Life of all its other leaves.’
MacNair, James Herbert
Mackintosh's style here is the closest he came to that of Margaret and Frances Macdonald, but his figures are always more substantial and the subject matter less whimsical than theirs.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie