About this artwork
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artist:James Cowie (1886 - 1956) Scottish
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title:Seated girl with left hand up to her face (Study for A Portrait Group)
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date created:About 1940
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materials:Pencil and pastel
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measurements:40.6 x 33 cm (framed: 66.7 x 60.4 x 3.4 cm)
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object type:
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credit line:Private Collection on long term loan to the National Galleries of Scotland
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accession number:GML 1001
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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...
