James Cowie
Student and Plaster Cast
About this artwork
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title:Student and Plaster Cast
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accession number:GMA 1328
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materials:Black chalk on paper
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date created:About 1933
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measurements:50.50 x 36.80 cm
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credit line:Purchased 1975
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copyright:© Ruth Christie, the artist's daughter
James Cowie
James Cowie
Born in Aberdeenshire, Cowie studied at Glasgow School of Art. He taught at Bellshill Academy, near Glasgow and later became Warden at Hospitalfield House, an art school near Arbroath. His style of painting was precise and linear. Cowie was an admirer of Poussin and the pre-raphaelite painters and believed in…