John Maxwell
Frontispiece illustration for Sydney Goodsir Smith's 'So Late into the Night'
About this artwork
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artist:John Maxwell (1905 - 1962) Scottish
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title:Frontispiece illustration for Sydney Goodsir Smith's 'So Late into the Night'
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date created:About 1952
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materials:Pen and ink on paper
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measurements:33.70 x 26.40 cm
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credit line:Bequeathed by Mrs Hazel Goodsir Smith 2004
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accession number:GMA 4737
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John Maxwell
John Maxwell
Maxwell was born in Dalbeattie, Kirkcudbrightshire. He attended Edinburgh College of Art from 1921 to 1926 and then travelled in Europe for a year. For a short period he, like several other Scottish artists of his generation, studied in Paris, where he experimented with a cubist style before...