James Morrison
James "Jim” Morrison RSA RSW (1932 - 2020) was a Scottish landscape painter. Born in Glasgow, he studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1950 - 1954. In 1957, along with Anda Paterson and James Spence, he founded the Glasgow Group of artists.
Morrison was an Academician of the Royal Scottish Academy and a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour.
In 1965, Morrison joined the staff at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee and settled in Montrose. He left the college in 1987 to paint full-time.
Whilst in Glasgow he painted several striking canvases of Glasgow tenements. Best known as a landscape painter, his main working areas were the lush farmland around his home in Angus and the rugged landscape of Assynt in Sutherland. He also undertook a number of painting expeditions outside Scotland to southern France, to the Arctic Circle, and the Limpopo region of Botswana.
The documentary film, Eye of the Storm, directed Anthony W. J. Baxter, was scheduled to be pre…more
Morrison was an Academician of the Royal Scottish Academy and a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour.
In 1965, Morrison joined the staff at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee and settled in Montrose. He left the college in 1987 to paint full-time.
Whilst in Glasgow he painted several striking canvases of Glasgow tenements. Best known as a landscape painter, his main working areas were the lush farmland around his home in Angus and the rugged landscape of Assynt in Sutherland. He also undertook a number of painting expeditions outside Scotland to southern France, to the Arctic Circle, and the Limpopo region of Botswana.
The documentary film, Eye of the Storm, directed Anthony W. J. Baxter, was scheduled to be pre…more
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Ten Years of Modern Masters
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2023
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Modern Masters XVI
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2023
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Amongst the Trees
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2024
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Modern Masters XVIII
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2025
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Saltire Review 23, Winter 1961
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1961
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Land and Landscape: The Painting of James Morrision
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2013
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James Morrison: The North Wind
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2015
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James Morrison: A Celebration 1932 - 2020
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2022
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James Morrison: New Paintings
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2005
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'Aff the Squerr'
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1977
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