William Gillies RSA
The Red Squirrel, 1941
Oil on canvas
125 x 128 cm
From the RSA Collection
This painting is one of Gillies’ first responses to his sister Emma’s death and to the disruption that came with the ongoing Second World War. The red squirrel of the...
This painting is one of Gillies’ first responses to his sister Emma’s death and to the disruption that came with the ongoing Second World War. The red squirrel of the title can be found at the top right. It is one of Emma’s ceramics, which would feature regularly in his still lifes, in a kind of memorialising object-based portraiture.
