Bishopston
James McBey
1927
Medium
pen and black ink and watercolor
Dimensions
Overall (approximate): 23.5 x 40.2 cm (9 1/4 x 15 13/16 in.) support: 24.2 x 41.2 cm (9 1/2 x 16 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.6101
About the Artist
James McBey
James McBey (1883–1959) was a Scottish artist renowned for his etchings and paintings, emerging from humble beginnings in Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, as the illegitimate son of a blacksmith's daughter. Largely self-taught, he left school at fifteen to work as a bank clerk in Aberdeen, where he devoured art books from the public library and attended evening classes at Gray's School of Art to hone his ...