About this artwork
Mackie exhibited an oil under the title The Incoming Tide at the RSA in 1897 (no. 670, untraced); it is very likely that this woodcut's composition is based upon this work. A watercolour of this title was no 64 priced at £10 in the 1896 exhibition of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours and may well have served as his model for this print. The watercolour was reviewed in The Glasgow Herald (Tuesday 24 November 1896) and described as 'a picture of the advancing sea and its terrors for youngsters on the rocks, [which] is treated with dash and Japanese cleverness'. Here, Mackie's use of grey blocks to create tonal harmonies is particularly striking; it has been suggested that he was influenced by Serusier's colour theories and by the work of Auguste Lepere (1849‑1918) and Georges Lacombe (1868‑1916).
Updated before 2020
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artist:Charles Hodge Mackie (1862 - 1920) Scottish
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title:The Incoming Tide
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date created:About 1900
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materials:Colour woodcut on Japanese paper
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measurements:Sheet size 40.00 x 50.00 cm
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credit line:Purchased with the support of Edinburgh Decorative and Fine Art Society, 2016
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accession number:P 3164
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Charles Hodge Mackie
Charles Hodge Mackie
Mackie was born in Aldershot but was raised and trained in Edinburgh. In 1892 he visited Brittany and met Paul Sérusier, who brought him into contact with the work of Gauguin and the other Nabis. He worked in Paris in 1893 and again in 1900. Mackie took up woodblock printing around 1898, and his...