DAVID FORRESTER WILSON R.S.A. | WIND

David Forrester Wilson studied at the Glasgow School of Arts from 1892-3 and 1899-1906 under the Belgian Symbolist, Jean Delville; he ultimately become the institution's Head of Drawing and Painting in 1932. Forrester Wilson's work ranged from aesthetic, symbolist experiments to naturalist landscapes, revealing influences as diverse as Delville, the Glasgow Boys, James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Jules Bastien-Lepage. A frequent exhibitor at the Royal Glasgow Institute throughout his career, in 1919 and throughout the 1920s Forrester Wilson submitted a number of works with the evocative titles of The Echo, The Song, and The Wind, which appears to be related to the present work. The Wind, among other works by the artist, was in the collection of Andy Warhol and hung at his famous The Factory (where it in turn inspired Jamie Wyeth's interpretation of 1999), and was sold in these rooms in April 1988 in the landmark sale of the artist's estate (fig. 1).