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Laide
Laide
Laide

Laide

Artist (Haddington, Scotland, 1898 - 1973)
Date1937
Mediumpen ink and watercolour on paper
ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings
DimensionsSight Size: Height: 54.3 cm
Overall: Width: 63.8 cm
Frame: Height: 74.8 cm, Width: 83.8 cm
AcquisitionBequeathed in 1988 by George Neillands.
Copyright© The Artist. All Rights Reserved 2023 / Bridgeman Images
LocationOn Display - Gallery 03
Object numberABDAG008127
Keywords
About MeFor two consecutive summers, 1937 and 1938, William Gillies camped at the village of Laide in Wester Ross, producing a vast body of sketches of the wild, unpeopled landscape found there.
More About Me

Gillies concentrated on landscape and still life paintings, and was particularly fond of depicting the Lothian, Fife and Border regions.

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