Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell

Doig, Wilson & Wheatley, Edinburgh,
Private Collection  

Stirling, Stirling Fine Art Association, January 1928

E. Mairi MacArthur, Columba's Island: Iona From Past to Present, illus. frontispiece

The board is sound. On very close inspection there is some light horizontal craquelure just below centre and elsewhere. Otherwise in good original condition, clean and ready to hang. Ultraviolet light reveals no sign of retouching. Held in a simple gold painted frame in fair condition. Under glass and unexamined out of frame.
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In his preface to the 1951 exhibition, Stanley Cursiter wrote of the Colourists, 'How individual and distinctive these artists were. Peploe, a strategist in paint, quick to seize the accidental in nature and subject it to the ordered demands of art; or patient to build, step by step, the elements of his harmony. Cadell, spontaneous and gay, for him nature in her brightest dress was the reflection of his own joy in the paints on his palette. Leslie Hunter, with his heart singing a high note, dashing at his canvas in impetuous haste, eager to capture the quivering thought while it still glowed'. Cadell's instinctive response to nature is captured brilliantly in almost all of the works he painted in Iona, a place where he felt an immense affinity and from which he drew so much inspiration. Often choosing to depict the beaches of Iona with surrounding islands in the distance, Clachanach Croft is a rare and interesting variation from his standard theme.