JAMES PATERSON, P.R.S.W., R.S.A. | THE GATE TO THE HIGHLANDS

W.N. Roberts Esq., by 1910;

Dowell's Edinburgh, 1973;

P. Glenn Ross Esq.;

Private Collection

The Scotsman, 6 February 1908, p.7;

St Andrews Citizen, 22 February 1908, p.4;

A. Patterson Wallace, The Glasgow Boy, James Paterson of Moniaive, 1854-1932, privately published, 2015, p.232, no.F91

Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, 1908, no.237;

Brussels, Exposition Universelle, 1910;

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Twenty Years of British Art, 1910, no.65;

London, The Fine Art Society, Scottish Painting 1830-1930, April-May 1974, no.70;

Edinburgh, The Fine Art Society, 100 Years of Scottish Paintings, 1974, no.116;

Glasgow and Edinburgh, The Fine Art Society, Glasgow 1900, 1979, no.109

The present work shows the famous Old Stirling Bridge a subject Paterson returned to numerous times. In this rendering, Paterson balances careful observation of the symbolic medieval masonry with sensitive exploration of light and reflection.