Art and Heritage Online Database

Collection: Gray's School of Art Collection
Object Type: Drawing
Artist/Maker: Cowie, James
Date: c 1944
Media/Materials: Graphite pencil on paper
Dimensions: 43 x 27.8 cm - 67.2 x 53 cm
Classification: Drawing

Description:

Landscape. A figurative composition featuring a scene near Hospitalfield Arbroath. A train is seen travelling north towards Aberdeen. The artist has used the squaring technique in this drawing. This often is used for transferring an image from one surface to another (and sometimes converting the image from one scale to another) by nonmechanical means.

Object Number: ABDRG2006.12