Self Portrait

Artist James McBey (Newburgh, Scotland, 1883 - 1959)

SitterSitter is James McBey (Newburgh, Scotland, 1883 - 1959)

Date1952

Mediumoil on canvas

ClassificationsMcBey

DimensionsOverall: Height: 72.4 cm, Width: 54.8 cm
Frame: Height: 93 cm, Width: 66.7 cm

AcquisitionMarguerite McBey Bequest, 2000.

LocationOn Display - Gallery 13

Object numberABDAG013852

Keywords

About MeThis confident image of the artist, who was approaching his seventieth year, was painted to form a pair to the one that McBey had painted of Marguerite two years earlier (left). Until her death in 1999 the two paintings hung in the sitting room of "El Foolk", where they enhanced the mood of elegance and refinement.

Adopted in Memory of Michael G.W.M. Ross.

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