About this artwork
Mountaineer, writer, documentary maker and founder of the Glencoe Rescue Team, Hamish McInnes first started climbing with the Glasgow-based Creag Dhu club, becoming a legend in his early twenties. His first ascent of Zero Gully on Ben Nevis in 1957 was one of the breakthroughs in British mountaineering. Abroad, he climbed in the Alps, New Zealand, the Caucasus and the Himalayas. Maclaurin, himself a keen climber, met MacInnes at his home in Glencoe where he made sketches of him and the surrounding mountains.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Robert Maclaurin (born 1961) English
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title:Hamish MacInnes, 1930 – 2020. Mountaineer
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date created:2002
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:97.00 x 130.00 cm; Framed: 111.80 x 144.80 x 5.10 cm
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credit line:Commissioned 2002
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accession number:PG 3317
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Robert Maclaurin
Robert Maclaurin
MacLaurin was born in Yorkshire and studied at Edinburgh College of Art, completing his postgraduate diploma in 1984, the year he won a travel scholarship to Turkey. He has subsequently been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Sir Robert Menzies Fellowship to Australia in 1995-96 and...