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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
LocationView by Appointment
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.

Exhibitions
Carrington
Sir William Gillies
1950-1974
Gardenstown
Sir William Gillies
1950
West Coast Sunset
Sir William Gillies
1936
Carrington Church
Sir William Gillies
Harvest No 1
Sir William Gillies
The Kirk
Sir William Gillies
Pool In The Hills, Dalbeattie by Sir William Gillies
Sir William Gillies
1949
Heriot Valley
Sir William Gillies
Pre 1964
Trees Esperton, Evening
Sir William Gillies
c. 1954
Hill Farm, Evening
Sir William Gillies
Last Of The Snow by Sir William G Gillies
Sir William Gillies
1966
Scur Mohr and Scur Beigg
Sir William Gillies
Blue Sky and Beech Trees
Sir William Gillies
The Cutting, Limekilns by Sir William Gillies
Sir William Gillies
1951
Sketch for 'Dusk'
Sir William Gillies
1958
The River and Beech Trees, Temple Woods
Sir William Gillies
c. 1947
Dusk by James Giles
Sir William Gillies
c. 1959
Trees and Coppice by Sir William Gillies
Sir William Gillies
1928
Summer in Lauderdale
Sir William Gillies
Still Life Pointed Lace
Sir William Gillies
1947
Yellow Jessamine
Sir William Gillies
1967
Landscape, Temple by Sir William G Gillies
Sir William Gillies
1950-1973