William Gillies RSA
Trees on the Tyne, Haddington, c.1924
Oil on canvas
55.8 x 64.8 cm (sight)
66.5 x 76.7 cm (frame)
66.5 x 76.7 cm (frame)
From the RSA Collection
This painting is one of Gillies’ most abstract of the River Tyne in East Lothian. It shows his art developing in response to cubist ideas of abstraction, light, and form...
This painting is one of Gillies’ most abstract of the River Tyne in East Lothian. It shows his art developing in response to cubist ideas of abstraction, light, and form that he encountered in Paris in 1923.