The Brig O’Balgownie, Aberdeen, Scotland
Oil on canvas
26 x 30 inches
Signed lower right: J. JEFFREY GRANT
$15,000
Description
By his own account, James Jeffery Grant loved to travel, and second to painting, liked chess and football. In 1924, he and his wife traveled to Scotland and France, and it is likely on this trip that The Brig o’ Balgownie was produced. The bridge runs over the Don River, through the north side of the town of Aberdeen, and Grant captures the surprising range of colors found on an overcast day.
Provenance
By descent through the artist’s family
With Vose Galleries, Boston, inventory no. JJG-25, December 2004
To collection of Mr. and Mrs. G. Arnold Haynes, Wellesley, Massachusetts, June 2009
Eventually to Haynes Family Foundation, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Inscriptions
Labels
- Previous Vose Galleries label, inventory no. JJG-25
- (handwritten label) THE BRIG O’BALGOWNIE / –(torn)°° / J. JEFFREY G—(torn)
Exhibitions
- (likely) Exhibition of Paintings by J. Jeffrey Grant, Art Institute of Chicago, August 9 – October 14, 1927, no. 12 The Auld Brig o’Balgownie
- James Jeffrey Grant (1883-1960) and his North Shore Contemporaries: Cape Ann Painters During the 1930s and 1940s, Vose Galleries, Boston, October 27 – December 7, 2005, illus. p. 12
- Building Connections: Works from the Haynes Family Foundation, Vose Galleries, Boston, June 2 – July 24, 2018
Literature
Condition
Excellent. The painting is not lined and has a few specks and dashes of in-paint in the left and center sky, and a small spot and short line upper right.
