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Shadows and Light - The Extraordinary Life of James McBey (Hardcover)
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Shadows and Light - The Extraordinary Life of James McBey (Hardcover)
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Creative genius, war artist, adventurer, lover. These are just some
of the words that can be used to describe Aberdeenshire-born
painter and printmaker James McBey (1883-1959). McBey was a
Scottish superstar amongst the creative spirits that fuelled the
Etching Revival of the late nineteenth century and Etching Boom of
the early twentieth century, and in an historical context, was the
acknowledged heir to Whistler and Rembrandt. But after his death in
Tangier, Morocco, in 1959, his renown as one of Britain's most
accomplished artists - who took the art world by storm - faded from
public consciousness. Born illegitimately in the tiny parish of
Foveran, Aberdeenshire, in the late Victorian era, he was brought
up by his blind mother and elderly grandmother amid the rigid
Presbyterian confines of Scotland's north-east. Tragedy, dreary
work as a bank clerk and a craving for success on his own terms all
precipitated his leaving Aberdeen to live the life of an artist in
London where he quickly became one of the most-talked about
creatives of his generation. At the heart of this biography - the
first ever to be published on McBey - is his time as a war artist
in the Middle East during the Great War - where he would meet and
paint T. E. Lawrence - his many love affairs, marriage to the
beautiful American, Marguerite Loeb, and his enduring passion for
Morocco. Drawing on his many diaries and letters and artistic
creations, this is the story of one man who - clever, kind,
intrepid, dashing, insecure and flawed - triumphed against the
odds.
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