Artist / Maker / Factory
THOMAS CORSAN MORTON (1859-1928)
Medium / Material
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
19.00inch wide
14.00inch high
(48.26 cm wide 35.56 cm high)
External Dimensions
25.00inch framed width
20.00inch framed height
(63.50 cm framed width 50.80 cm framed height)
Description
"One of the Glasgow Boys" "Gipsey Travellers Evening Rest"
Literature
Thomas Corsan Morton
1859 -1928 Scottish
“One of the Glasgow Boys”
Thomas is part of the “Glasgow Boys” School of Art. He studied at the Slade School and also in Paris. He exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy (49); Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts; Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water Colours; Suffolk Street, Royal Society of British Artists; Aberdeen Artists' Society. He was one of the Glasgow School artists, a number of whom he worked with, Paterson, Henry and Walton, studying at W Y McGregor's Bath Street studio in the early 1880s. Thomas was appointed keeper of the National Gallery of Scotland in 1908 and became the first keeper of Kirkcaldy Gallery of Art. He was a Friend of Hornell whom he used to visit and exhibited at Harbour Gallery, Kirkcudbright in 1882. Thomas lived in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Fife.
