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Dorothy JohnstonePortrait of Elspeth - Scottish Impressionist 1950's exhib art oil painting1958
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This superb Scottish Impressionist exhibited portrait oil painting with excellent provenance is by noted Edinburgh female artist Dorothy Johnstone. Painted in 1958, it was exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy that year and much later, in 1967, at the Royal Society Exhibition. Dorothy Johnstone, with her close friends Cecile Walton and Mary Newbery, was a member of The Edinburgh School, which reformed in 1919, a collective of gifted and progressive artists associated with the Edinburgh College of Art. From the summer of 1915, she became a regular annual visitor to Kirkcudbright in Galloway, where she would paint with other mainly female artists including Jessie M. King as part of the Kirkcudbright School. This superb portrait was painted in 1958 and the sitter is Elspeth. She is seated, arms resting in her lap and gazing to her right and smiling slightly. She is wearing a black, brown and silver stripped dress and a large silver cross on a chain. Beside her is a small table and vase and a curtain behind her. The contrast of her skin against the darker material is very effective and the details in her face are lovely. This is a super 1950's Scottish exhibited painting and an excellent example of Johnstone's work.
Signed and dated 1958 lower left.
Provenance. Exhibited Royal Scottish Academy 1958 no. 118 entitled Elspeth.
Royal Society Exhibition 1967 label and artists labels verso.
James Bourlet label verso.
By descent through the artist's family.
Condition. Oil on canvas, 27 inches by 26 inches and in good condition.
Frame. Housed in original gilt gesso frame, 34 inches by 33 inches and in good condition.
Dorothy Johnstone (1892–1980) was a Scottish painter and watercolourist. Johnstone was born in Edinburgh in 1892 and grew up in Napier Road, near the Gothic Mansion, Rockville. Her father, landscape artist George Whitton Johnstone RSA (1849–1901), encouraged her artistic talents, and at the age of 16 she enrolled as a student at the Edinburgh College of Art. She took the Life Class with Ernest Stephen Lumsden where she revealed her talents at informal portraiture, a genre for which she became well known. In 1914 she became a member of staff at the Edinburgh College of Art. From the summer of 1915, she became a regular annual visitor to Kirkcudbright in Galloway, where she would paint with other mainly female artists including Jessie M. King as part of the Kirkcudbright School. Dorothy Johnstone, with her close friends Cecile Walton and Mary Newbery, was a member of The Edinburgh School, which reformed in 1919, a collective of gifted and progressive artists associated with the Edinburgh College of Art. During 1919 she was living in Kirkcudbright where she had an affair with Vera Holme who would go on to be the 'Pankhursts' chauffeur'. In 1924, at the peak of her artistic career, Johnstone mounted a joint exhibition in Edinburgh with fellow artist Cecile Walton. She married her colleague and fellow group member David Macbeth Sutherland in 1924. They had a son, Sir Iain Sutherland, in 1925, and a daughter in 1928. As a consequence of her husband's appointment in 1933 as head of Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen (now at Robert Gordon's University) and of the marriage bar in place at the time, she gave up her career and her students. She kept her links with Edinburgh by continuing to exhibit her portraits and landscapes at the Royal Scottish Academy, to which she was elected an Associate (ARSA) in 1962.
Johnstone painted landscapes and portraits, particularly of children, and her style was free and relaxed, whether using oil, watercolour, pencil or chalk. Some of her work is displayed at the National Gallery of Scotland. When she died in 1980, she bequeathed her important early painting 'Marguerites' (painted in 1912) to the Royal Scottish Academy.
- Creator:Dorothy Johnstone
- Creation Year:1958
- Dimensions:Height: 34 in (86.36 cm)Width: 33 in (83.82 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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- Gallery Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU853116226632
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