William Gillies

Providing new evidence on the life and times of this Scottish painter, Andrew McPherson shows Gillies to be a modernist thinker. Including paintings never seen before, he reappraises his creative output, including the relationship of portraiture to still life, placing him firmly within not only a Scottish context but a British and European one too.Andrew McPherson has been researching the life, times and works of William Gillies for over twenty years. He has rethought the formative influence of