oil on board, signed, titled label verso
framed

image size 77cm x 50cm, overall size 85cm x 60cm

Exhibition label verso: Christmas '73, Compass Gallery, Glasgow
Note: Painter, stage designer and lecturer, born in Glasgow, where he continued to work. Macdonald trained as a marine engineer. Although he was mainly self-taught in art, completing only one session at Glasgow School of Art, Macdonald was a close friend of the painters J D Fergusson and Josef Herman, whose studio he took over in the early 1940s. It was in that decade that he began his association with the stage, directing and designing sets for Unity Theatre, later paintings sets for Scottish Opera. Macdonald was a versatile artist, sometimes working on a large scale. As well as painting abstracts, under the influence of Herman he painted a series of Expressionist pictures drawing on Glasgow working-class life, other paintings taking up themes such as Clowns and Cowboys which explored human behaviour. For some years Macdonald also gave extra-mural lectures on art for Glasgow University. Macdonald took part in inaugural exhibition of Compass Gallery, Glasgow, in 1969, and showed with RSA, SSA and Scottish Arts Council tours. He had a series of solo exhibitions with Compass Gallery, and Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, held his memorial exhibition. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art holds his work.