* JAMES MCINTOSH PATRICK OBE RSA ROI (SCOTTISH 1907 - 1998), THE ESK

watercolour on paper, signed and titled mounted, framed and under glass image size 38cm x 28cm, overall size 60cm x 50cm Note: After the war, Patrick returned to Dundee with his wife and family and began painting outdoors rather than in the studio which he had upstairs in his house. By the 1950's he had perfected his style and technique in outdoor landscape painting and began recording his beloved Angus countryside on canvas, working in all seasons and all weather conditions. His style was traditional and he didn't have much time for ''contemporary'' interpretations of landscape. ''The Tay Bridge from My Studio Window'', painted in 1947, is probably the best known of Patrick's works and illustrates the detailed style which he had finally decided upon as suiting his temperament best. He was elected a full member of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1957. His reputation grew throughout the sixties and seventies and by the early eighties, he was a giant in the Scottish art world. James McIntosh Patrick was an exemplar in his life and work and imparted his knowledge freely. He was, without doubt, the most able landscape painter that Scotland has produced in the 20th century and stands on equal terms with most of Europe's best landscape painters of that era. Sixty of his pictures are held in UK public collections at many of the finest museums and galleries in the UK.