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Artworks
William Gillies RSA
Landscape With House and Two Heads, 1929-39, aroundoil on canvas63.8 x 76.8cm (support)/ 77.9 x 90.0cm (frame)Around the point of this painting a thread of naivety entered Gillies’ landscapes. It probably arose as Gillies considered how his painting might develop from the cubism that had interested...Around the point of this painting a thread of naivety entered Gillies’ landscapes. It probably arose as Gillies considered how his painting might develop from the cubism that had interested him in the 1920s. Child art and the routes it offered into abstraction were being embraced in educational and artistic circles in Edinburgh at the time, and in St Ives, Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood were championing the naïve painting of Alfred Wallis.
