About this artwork
This watercolour is a design for a series of glass panels depicting a celebratory procession for Saint Agnes. Gauld uses vibrant, bold outlines and simple decorative elements of glass design. His early work was inspired by the designs of Rossetti and Burne-Jones, and anticipated the Art Nouveau movement in Scotland. Gauld studied part-time at Glasgow School of Art from 1882–1885, where he was friends with Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) and, like Mackintosh, was particularly interested in the decorative arts. He became a successful designer of ecclesiastical and domestic stained glass, and was appointed Director at the School of Design, Glasgow School of Art, in 1935.
Updated before 2020
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artist:David Gauld (1865 - 1936) Scottish
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title:The Procession of Saint Agnes - Stained Glass Design
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date created:About 1890 - 1893
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materials:Watercolour and pencil on paper
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measurements:11.40 x 10.20 cm (framed: 23.50 x 23.00 x 3.00 cm)
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credit line:Purchased 2007
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accession number:D 5616 B
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David Gauld
David Gauld
Gauld's innovations in painting chiefly emerge in his early decorative pictures, rather than the popular, rural Ayrshire paintings he produced from the mid-1890s onwards. He was a good friend of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and had studied part-time at Glasgow School of Art. His first works to attract...