Graves International Art - John Rankine Barclay

Title: "Paris Street Scene"
*Signed LL
Year: 1921
Medium: Original Watercolor on Paper
Framed size: 19.25" x 20.75"
Image size: 9.5" x 11.5"
Price: $800

John Rankine Barclay (1884-1962) was born in Edinburgh in 1884. He studied at the Royal Institution where he met A R Sturrock. He was a member of the Edinburgh Group, a group of progressive painters that included J.G Spence Smith, D. M. Sutherland, William Oliphant Hutchison, William Mervyn Glass and A R Sturrock. He painted in both oil and watercolor, frequently depicting figures in a landscape or a town setting in an individual and often experimental style. His work was exhibited at RSA, RA, RSW and Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts.