Lot 45 - * CHRISTIAN JANE FERGUSSON (SCOTTISH 1876 -

30th Aug, 2017 18:00

The Scottish Pictures Auction

Lot 45

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* CHRISTIAN JANE FERGUSSON (SCOTTISH 1876 - 1957), THE ROAD FROM NEW ABBEY TO LOCH ARTHUR watercolour on paper, signed 35cm x 26cm Mounted, framed and under glass Note: Titled on label verso. Note: Born in Dumfries. Trained at Crystal Palace School of Art (London) and then at Glasgow School of Art. Taught at Kirkcudbright Academy (1905-1906) then Glasgow High School for Girls before returning to Dumfries in 1908. Her watercolours show a spontaneity of their own. Her oils show greater evidence of the contemporary colourist movement. With Hornel, Jessie King, E A Taylor, Oppenheimer and others, formed the Dumfries and Galloway Fine Art Society. First exhibition 1922. Winner of the Windsor and Newton Prize, Glasgow School of Art, session1901-2. Lauder Award Winner Glasgow Society of Lady Artists, 1933, 1938 and 1954.

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