The smoking room, the Scottish Arts Club
About this artwork
Located in a large Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh’s West End, the Scottish Arts Club is an exclusive society for individuals involved in the creative arts and its members include painters, sculptors, musicians and writers. The room depicted in this conversation piece by Sir W O Hutchison is the club’s main lounge. In 1943, after ten years as Director of Glasgow School of Art, Hutchison moved to Edinburgh, where he became a regular visitor to the club. This painting shows some of his friends and fellow members: Dr Peddie is holding a pipe whilst in conversation with the artist Alick Sturrock. Meanwhile the Club President, Dr Whittaker, gives us a stern look over his glasses as landscape painter JG Spence Smith is about to leave the room.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Sir William Oliphant Hutchison (1889 - 1970) Scottish
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title:The smoking room, the Scottish Arts Club
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date created:1945
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:62.20 x 91.50 cm; Framed: 76.90 x 107.50 x 8.00 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 1988
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accession number:PG 2737
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Sir William Oliphant Hutchison
Sir William Oliphant Hutchison
The son of a Kirkcaldy businessman, William Oliphant Hutchison studied at Edinburgh College of Art and in Paris. He was part of the group of young painters who exhibited as the Edinburgh Group immediately before and after the First World War. Surviving a severe war wound, from 1918 he lived in...