Joseph Crawhall III

Joseph Crawhall ( born August 20, 1861 in Morpeth, Northumberland, † May 24 1913 in London) was an English painter of the late Impressionism and was in close contact with the Glasgow Boys, a group of artists from the 19th and early 20th century.

Life and work

Joseph Crawhall III. was the fourth child and second son of Joseph Crawhall II and Margaret Boyd. From 1877 to 1879 he studied at King's College in London. 1882 remained Crawhall with James Guthrie and Edward Arthur Walton in Paris, where she engaged intensively with the French realists, especially with the works of Jules Bastien- Lepage. Crawhall was informed there Aimé Morot, who encouraged him, as far as possible to create the images from memory. During this time he was like many of his contemporaries from Japanese art greatly influenced.

On his return to Glasgow his friendships with William York MacGregor brought him finally into contact with the Glasgow Boys. Together they undertook summer Malexkursionen on the Scottish coast, and painted in the style of plein air painting rural scenes. 1883 presented Crawhall oil paintings at the Royal Academy of Arts, but soon specialized in watercolor and pastel painting and presented in his works, especially animals, especially birds dar.

From 1884 to 1893 traveled Crawhall Spain and Morocco, where he was mainly in Tangier. Of these trips, he painted numerous paintings. From 1887 to 1893 he was a member of the Royal Watercolour Society. In 1894 he was in the gallery of Alex Reid in Glasgow hold his first one-man exhibition. From 1898, he lived in the countryside in Yorkshire and dealt there with horses. 1909 Crawhall was admitted to the New English Art Club. In 1912, he made ​​important contributions to Abel Chapman's work Unexplored Spain. In the same year his work was a retrospective at the WB Paterson 's Gallery appreciated. In 1913 Crawhall died in London.

His 100th birthday was celebrated in 1961 with an exhibition at the Reid Gallery. Most of his works are now in Glasgow at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and the Burrell Collection.