McCall, Charles James (1907-89)

Creator details

Name
McCall, Charles James (1907-89)
Nationality
Scottish
Biography
(1907-89)<br> Charles McCall was born in Edinburgh in 1907. Aged twenty-three he won a two-year scholarship to Edinburgh College, completing a four year course in two years, studying under D.M. Sutherland and the famous colourist S.J. Peploe. The diploma was followed by two further scholarships which included an extensive tour of Europe and study under Orthon Friesz at the Academie Colarossi, Paris.<br> <br> Many of his one man shows have been mounted on both sides of the Atlantic and a film of McCall’s life and work was made by BBC Scotland and shown in 1975. Charles McCall died in 1989.<br>

Assets (43 in total)

Victoria Station, 1985 (oil on canvas)
Woman at Writing Desk, 1984 (oil on board)
The Breakfast Table (oil on board)
Dressmaking
By the Mantlepiece (oil on canvas)
The Great Hall, 1948 (oil on canvas)
Damery-sur-Marne, 1985 (oil on canvas)
The Highlander, 1984 (gouache on paper)
Highland Landscape, 1981 (oil on board)
Woman in the Studio, 1979 (oil on canvas)
Mending the Sheet, 1980 (oil on canvas)
Garlic Stall - Beausoleil Market, 1981 (oil on canvas)

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