James Cowie
Bellshill Art Room
About this artwork
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title:Bellshill Art Room
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accession number:GMA 1895
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materials:Black chalk and watercolour on paper
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date created:About 1934
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measurements:37.70 x 52.80 cm
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credit line:Bequeathed by Dr R.A. Lillie 1977
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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…