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Joseph Henderson (Paperback)
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Joseph Henderson (Paperback)
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Joseph Henderson's contribution to the burgeoning Glasgow art world
in the second half of the 19th century and the first years of the
20th was profound. Glasgow became a centre of artistic activity in
the 1860s, due in part to the establishment of the Royal Glasgow
Institute of Fine Arts and the artists who formed the Glasgow Art
Club of which Henderson was twice president. Opportunities reached
a peak with the extravagant Glasgow International Exhibition of
1888 with its six large galleries devoted to art. Then came the
famous `Glasgow Boys' who furthered the city's reputation for art
in the 1880s and 90s. Among the artists most regularly reviewed in
The Glasgow Herald and The Scotsman was Joseph Henderson whose
early works encompassed portraiture and genre painting but who
later became renowned for his seascapes and extraordinary rendition
of the west coast of Scotland. These feature prominently in this
richly coloured illustrated book which brings to life what
Henderson called his`bit of the Ayrshire Coast'. And yet today,
knowledge of his contribution requires renewal. Perhaps
overshadowed by his son-in-law, the better known William McTaggart,
and vying for recognition with his three artist sons, one of whom
became Director of the Glasgow School of Art, few remember that
Henderson had many paintings hung at the Royal Academy in London
and in 1896 was declared by his colleagues to be`the doyen of
Glasgow artists'. On the occasion of his Jubilee (in 1901) members
of the Glasgow Art Club reiterated this praise. Anthony Woodd,
whose Edinburgh gallery will feature an exhibition of Henderson's
paintings in September 2013, has written,"The seascapes paintings
of Joseph Henderson have a quintessentially Scottish
flavour,...always fresh and executed with swift, broken brushwork,
the feeling conveyed is invariably one of spontaneity and an
instantly appealing sense of the artist's oneness with nature."
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