About this artwork
This complicated picture, an expression of Cox's own interest in landscape, may have been taken near Baldovie Toll. It is a technically challenging composition, which needs to reconcile the darkness of the land and buildings with the bright light of the sky and water. Cox has very artfully achieved detail even in the darker areas, standing the two figures within the doorway of the shed.
Updated before 2020
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artist:
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title:Landscape with Wood Yard
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date created:About 1880
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materials:Albumen print
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measurements:19.10 x 24.00 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 1983
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accession number:PGP 37.VOL 4.27
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James Cox
James Cox
James Cox was the eldest child of a wealthy jute manufacturing family. He was an amateur painter and photographer. In 1880 he helped set up the Dundee and East of Scotland Photographic Association and was its first president. An exhibitor at the Royal Scottish Academy from 1884-6, Cox was a member...
