* HUGH ADAM CRAWFORD RSA (SCOTTISH 1898 - 1982), PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM ARMOUR oil on canvas, signed with monogram 65cm x 52cm Framed and under glass. Notes: Hugh Adam Crawford was an influential and charismatic figure in the 1920/30s Glasgow art scene. During a long teaching career, Crawford influenced and inspired many notable students including Joan Eardley, Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun. Crawford was born in Busby, East Renfrewshire and studied at the Glasgow School of Art, where he was taught by Maurice Greiffenhagen from 1919 to 1923. He briefly moved to London to study part-time at the Central School of Art and at Saint Martin's School of Art before returning to Glasgow in 1925 to join the staff at the Glasgow School of Art. He eventually became Head of Painting there, a post he was to hold until 1948. As well as developing a strong style of portrait painting Crawford also painted murals. The sitter is the artist William Armour,who studiied at the GSA and went on to teach there. In 1927 Armour married Mary Nicol Steel (Mary Armour). Although the canvas is undated, we believe it will have been completed in the mid 1920's