Philip Reeves RSA 1931-2017
Canal Near Maryhill, 1958
gouache on canvas textured paper
49.3 x 62.0 cm (sight); 70.9 x 82.3cm (frame)
Philip Reeves studied at the Cheltenham School of Art and at the Royal College of Art, London before being appointed lecturer at Glasgow School of Art in 1954. Here he...
Philip Reeves studied at the Cheltenham School of Art and at the Royal College of Art, London before being appointed lecturer at Glasgow School of Art in 1954.
Here he adopts a compositional solution which Gillies had deployed earlier. The shape formed by locks on the Forth and Clyde Canal has been tilted almost to the vertical. Gillies used this technique in a series of landscapes where clumps of trees are bisected by a road that stretches upwards into the sky rather than conventionally receding into the middle and back grounds.
Here he adopts a compositional solution which Gillies had deployed earlier. The shape formed by locks on the Forth and Clyde Canal has been tilted almost to the vertical. Gillies used this technique in a series of landscapes where clumps of trees are bisected by a road that stretches upwards into the sky rather than conventionally receding into the middle and back grounds.
