Perhaps best known for his depictions of cattle and rural scenes in Ayrshire, the painter, printer, illustrator and stained glass artist David Gauld was born in Glasgow where he worked initially as a lithographer for the Glasgow Weekly Citizen before going on to attend the city’s School of Art. As well as producing highly innovative illustrations for the Citizen in his early years, during which he was influenced by Japanese printmaking, he created impressive designs for stained glass, most notably for the St Andrew’s Scottish church in Buenos Aires. After spending time in France at the artists’ colony at Grez-au-Loing, Gauld at one time shared a studio in Kirkcudbright with the distinguished Scottish artists William Stewart MacGeorge and later with Harrington Mann in Glasgow. A close friend of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, he was to become associated with the Glasgow Boys and on turning to painting in the mid 1890s, he began producing the work for which he is best known – Ayrshire landscapes and studies of cattle, of which this present work is a fine example. He exhibited at the Glasgow Institute of Fine Art and at the Royal Scottish Academy, of which he was elected a full member in 1924. He also showed at Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery. In 1935 he was appointed Director of Studies in the Design Department of Glasgow School of Art. His work is held in numerous public and private collections throughout Scotland and beyond, including Glasgow’s Hunterian Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh.
A fine oil on canvas by David Gauld, a member of the innovative and renowned group of Scottish artists known as the “Glasgow Boys”. Signed, lower left, this work is in good condition in its original frame and comes from a private estate in Ayrshire.
Measures 92 cm wide by 61 cm deep (106 cm by 76 cm in its frame).
£2500