Lot 274
WILLIAM GIBSON MORTON (1871-1946)
'AUTUNNA'
Auction: 7 November 2012 at 11:00 GMT
Description
signed bottom left W.G.MORTON, and inscribed AUTUNNA, oil on panel
Dimensions
53 x 90cm
Footnote
Literature: Donnelly, Michael 'Glasgow Stained Glass, Glasgow 1981, p. 32 and 33
Historic Scotland
Note: The renowned Glasgow stained glass artist W.G. Morton was a tutor in Decoration and Signwriting in the Decorative trades Department of the Royal Technical College in Glasgow. In the late 1920s he became Principal of the Decorative Trades Institute until his retirement in 1938. He was also a member of the Glasgow Art Club, where he regularly exhibited his oil paintings.
One of Morton's most celebrated commissions was the scheme he produced in 1902 for Miller & Lang's Printing Works in Darnley Street, Glasgow, which included mermaids, whales and seabirds. Michael Donnelly describes this work as `some of the most adventurous domestic glass of the decade...truly modern in concept and compar(ing) favourably with the best German and Austrian glass of the period.'