Mother and Child

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Department for Education, Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street

Charles James McCall was born in Edinburgh, and despite first studying law, he took up art after winning a scholarship at the Edinburgh College of Art. There he studied under the artist S.J. Peploe. McCall was awarded further scholarships in Europe in the 1930s, including studies at the Académie Colarossi in Paris (1937). Returning to Edinburgh in 1938, he became a Fellow of the College of Art and began exhibiting at the Royal Academy, the New English Art Club and with the London Group. In the Second World War he served with the Royal Engineers. Afterwards, McCall exhibited in solo shows in Britain and the USA, Canada and Ireland. His work is included in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow and the Edmonton Art Gallery, Canada.

Places

Subjects

genre, woman, 20th century costume, family, mirror, mother, child, domestic interior, wallpaper, chest of drawers, carpet, chair

Materials & Techniques

board, oil, oil painting

Artist

Charles James McCall (1907 - 1989)

Title

Mother and Child

Date

1950

Medium

Oil on board

Dimensions

height: 49.50 cm, width: 24.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Leicester Galleries, August 1954

Inscription

TR: McCall '50

Provenance

Consigned by the artist to Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in August 1954

GAC number

2834