ROBERTSON James Downie 1931-2010

Painter born in Cowdenbeath, Scotland. He studied at Glasgow School of Art, 1950-56 where his fellow students included Alexander Goudie, Duncan Shanks, Alasdair Gray and Alan Fletcher, to name but a few. In 1961 Robertson held his first solo exhibition at Douglis and Foulis Gallery, Edinburgh and in 1962 he was elected RSW and an Associate of the RSA in 1974, RSA in 1989 and RGI in 1980. From 1959 until 1999, Jimmy as he was known taught variously at Glasgow School of Art, Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen and at Dundee College of Art. He was for a time President of Glasgow Art Club.

Examples of his work are represented in Glasgow Art Gallery, the SAC and the collections of HM Queen Elizabeth, HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and the Duke of Edinburgh, the Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie. Robertson was awarded an MBE in 2009. He held a solo exhibition at the Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow in 2000. Several of his paintings were auctioned a few months after his death at McTears in Glasgow.

Mixed Media on paper

Titled verso 'Grangemouth'

Mounted and framed

Signed bottom right

Framed size 60 cm x 63 cm (image 35 cm x 42 cm)

Provenance - Lyon and Turnbull, Edinburgh