
Charles Graham-Campbell
Director, Scotland
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PROVENANCE:
H.H. McTaggart, Loanhead, Midlothian
J.J. Kirkness, South Africa
With Duncan R. Miller Fine Arts, London
EXHIBITED:
South Africa, Pretoria, Pretoria Art Museum (where loaned by J.J. Kirkness)
LITERATURE:
J.L. Caw, William McTaggart, - A Biography and an Appreciation, James Maclehose & Sons, Glasgow, 1917, pp. 156, 268.
P. Kvaerne, William McTaggart, Edinburgh, 2007, pl. 226
Painted at Sandy Dean, very close to the artist's home, and described by Caw (p. 156) as one of "those delightful middling-sized pictures". The children are well-resolved and there is a sense of depth achieved through the variations in tone. The golden highlights in the field lift the whole canvas.