Images of Clyde Puffers, Bowling harbour and Royal Gourock Yacht Club will be for sale at an auction in Glasgow this month.
The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction is being by McTear’s on Thursday.
Among the lots is Clyde Puffers, by Herbert Whone (1925 – 2011); oil on canvas, and with an image size of 56cm x 72cm it has an estimate of £2,000 to £4,000.
A professional violinist, he moved to Glasgow in 1955 to become deputy leader of the Scottish National Orchestra.
Two of his fondest subjects were trams and shipbuilding on and around the Clyde and he enjoyed critical acclaim in the 1950s and 60s – his early known collectors included Joan Eardley, Margot Sandeman, Cyril Gerber, Johnny Beattie and Magnus Magnusson.
Dusk At Bowling is by James Downie Robertson (1931 – 2010); oil on canvas and 56cm x 76cm, it has an estimate of £600 to £800,
Robertson studied at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) under David Donaldson and Joan Eardley, returning to teach there in 1959 – in the following 41 years he was a major influence on the careers of generations of Scottish artists.
His work was exhibited in the top galleries throughout his career and he won numerous awards and prizes at the major public Scottish exhibitions. His work is in many corporate, public and private collections worldwide, including those of HRH the late Prince Phillip and HM the late Queen Mother.
KG V at the Royal Gourock Yacht Club – Start Of The Race is by William Dobbie.
Oil on canvas and 50cm x 50cm, it has an estimate of £200 to £300.
Dobbie graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1977 and since then he has built his reputation at home and abroad.
His work hangs in private collections in America, Australia, and the United Arab Emirates, as well as throughout the British Isles.
Commissions have been undertaken for major companies, national charities and one of Scotland’s leading advertising agencies.
He was official artist to the Tall Ships visit to Greenock in 1999.
Shingle Beach is one of several works in the auction by Bill Wright, who lived in Helensburgh.
Mixed media on paper, it is 36cm x 60cm and has an estimate of £150 to £250.
After graduating from GSA he taught at St Patrick’s High School in Dumbarton and established a residential art course for school children, at the Pirniehall residential educational facility at Croftamie.
His work was shown in all the major shows in Scotland and in galleries across the country from Aberdeenshire to Edinburgh, Glasgow and south of the border.
It also features in public collections of Stirling and Strathclyde Universities, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and the Educational Institute of Scotland, and he was recognised with The Laing Prize for Landscape and Seascape and the RSW’s Sir William Gillies Award.
Day Outing is by Anda Paterson, who lived in Cardross with her husband James Spence.
A limited edition artist’s proof print on paper, it is 18cm x 58cm and has an estimate of £100 to £200.
Paterson and Spence founded the Glasgow Group in the late 1950s, which did much to promote an interest in contemporary art in the west of Scotland and elsewhere.
She studied at Glasgow School of Art, in Spain and Portugal and was a winner of the Anne Redpath and Latimer Awards. She showed in mixed exhibitions in Scotland and abroad and had a solo show at Compass Gallery, Glasgow, in 1971, being included in The Compass Contribution at Tramway, Glasgow,
Dawn Sky is by James Spence – mixed media on board and 15cm x 26cm, it has estimate of £100 to £200.
Spence attended Glasgow School of Art in the 1950s and was taught by David Donaldson, Geoff Squire, William and Mary Armour and Benno Schotz, before spending the summers of 1956 and 57 studying at Hospitalfield House School of Art in Arbroath. He was president of the Glasgow Group for 33 years.
On becoming principal of art at Dumbarton Academy, his great pleasure and ambition was to teach etching, lithography, sculpture, woodcut and life drawing.
There are over 40 lots in the exhibition, which will be in the auction house in Meiklewood Road, Glasgow, and viewing is open to the public from 12 noon tomorrow – more information is online.
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