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Mackechnie, Robert George Sang
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Robert George Sang Mackechnie was a student at The Glasgow School of Art from 1918-1921 where he was a student of drawing and painting. Robert took daytime classes and was awarded a Diploma in 1921.
Robert lived in the west end area of Glasgow whilst a student, before moving to Florence for a short time with his wife; fellow GSA student and artist Margaret Helen Barnard, whom he met whilst at GSA and married in 1924.
Mackechnie exhibited with the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts and the Royal Scottish Academy from 1921-1934.
and Margaret moved to Rye in Suffolk due to Robert's poor health, where they became influential members of the local artist's community. However, throughout their lives they always retained their connection to Italy taking a house every summer in Positano, to ease the effects of George's asthma.
During the First World War both Robert and Margaret were involved in the war effort in a variety of ways; Robert undertook Munitions work in a factory, Margaret cultivated an allotment and possibly drove an ambulance.
Upon their initial return from Florence, Mackechnie joined the Seven and Five Society in 1927 along with artists such as Ivan Hutchins, Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson . In the early years the group mainly consisted of ex-service men whom had been arts students before the war and were interested in exploring a return to order through their art, a popular persuasion after the upheaval and uncertainty of the Great Conflict. Mackechnie exhibited with the group in 1927, 1928 and finally in 1929 at the Beaux Arts Club in London.
Mackechnie died in 1975, a collection of his works and those of Margaret Barnard were bequeathed to Rye Art Gallery in 1990 by Margaret Barnard prior to her death in 1992.
http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/the-seven-and-five-society
http://thefineartsociety.com/usr/documents/exhibitions/list_of_works_url/49/7-5-catalogue.pdf
https://www.bookroomartpress.co.uk/biographies/margaret-barnard/
The Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts 1861-1989 Vol 3
The Royal Scottish Academy of Exhibitors 1826-1990 Vol III
Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture
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