WRIGHT, JAMES (1885-1947)

“The Sampler” (c.1920)
Oil on canvas
45 x 35cm
Signed lower right
*private collection, Sydney
 
James Wright VPRSW was a prominent Scottish Impressionist, Modernist and associate of the Glasgow Boys. As a landscape and figure painter, he lived in Glasgow and Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire. He was elected to the Royal Scottish Society of Watercolour Artists in 1920 and showed extensively, including fifty-seven works at the Glasgow Institute, three at the Royal Academy, thirty-six at the Royal Scottish Academy and eighty-two at the RSW.