William Gillies RSA
Mauve Landscape (Pentland Hills), c.1956
Oil on canvas
61.5 x 74.0 cm (sight)
76.2 x 87.6 cm (frame)
76.2 x 87.6 cm (frame)
From the RSA Collection
A recurring feature of Gillies’ landscapes from around 1932, is a single, centrally placed tree. The placement of the tree often disrupts the composition. Gillies would have known of Paul...
A recurring feature of Gillies’ landscapes from around 1932, is a single, centrally placed tree. The placement of the tree often disrupts the composition. Gillies would have known of Paul Klee’s artist-as-tree metaphor, and John Piper’s desire to return from abstraction to more realistic painting by getting ‘back to the tree in the field’.
