Farnell
- Artist:
- Type: Painting
- Production Date: 1972
- Description: The first art curator of the Art Collection, Matilda Mitchell, tells the story that in May 1973, Tom Cottrell, first Principal of the University of Stirling, 'came back from a visit to the RSA [Open Exhibition in Edinburgh] all excited about this picture and died [very suddenly] a week later so we just went and got it.'
It was the first of four by this artist to be acquired by the Art Collection. One of Morrison's main working areas was the lush farmland around his home in Angus, and this is an early example of the style he was to develop so successfully over the next decades, in which the restrained palette and distinctive huge skies, later filled with majestically shaped broad brush clouds, convey the wide spaciousness of the Scottish landscape in a particularly unmistakable style.
James Morrison's son John tells us that the artist was at this stage experimenting with thinning his paints with petrol, which created distinctive lines, visible in the yellows of the foreground of this work, and also incurred a fume-induced headache! - Dimensions: 120 cm (H) x 181.5 cm (W)
- Digital Copy:A digital copy exists.
- Location: Cottrell Building, W corridor
- Related Material: AC/AF/M/23
- Related Material: AC/OF/1973/11
- Accession Number: 1973.11
- Contact: University of Stirling Art Collection
