* MURRAY MACPHERSON TOD RSW RE (1909 - 1974) DEVASTATION
watercolour on paper, signed and dated 1971, titled label verso mounted, framed and under glass image size 76cm x 53cm, overall size 93cm x 70cm Exhibition label verso: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings & Etchings, April 1979, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh Note: Painter and printmaker who studied at Glasgow School of Art, 1927-31, and at the RCA, 1931-34, winning a scholarship to the British School at Rome in 1935. He was a frequent exhibitor at the RSA and specialised in Scottish, Italian and Spanish landscapes. He was elected an Associate of the RE, 1947, and RE, 1953. From the late 1940’s he suffered from muscular dystrophy and from 1941-46 he taught at Dalbeattie High School and at Edinburgh College of Art, 1949-59. He also exhibited at RA and GI. His wife Marjorie Ashworth Tod née Lucas was also a painter and etcher.
[ translate ]watercolour on paper, signed and dated 1971, titled label verso mounted, framed and under glass image size 76cm x 53cm, overall size 93cm x 70cm Exhibition label verso: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings & Etchings, April 1979, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh Note: Painter and printmaker who studied at Glasgow School of Art, 1927-31, and at the RCA, 1931-34, winning a scholarship to the British School at Rome in 1935. He was a frequent exhibitor at the RSA and specialised in Scottish, Italian and Spanish landscapes. He was elected an Associate of the RE, 1947, and RE, 1953. From the late 1940’s he suffered from muscular dystrophy and from 1941-46 he taught at Dalbeattie High School and at Edinburgh College of Art, 1949-59. He also exhibited at RA and GI. His wife Marjorie Ashworth Tod née Lucas was also a painter and etcher.
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