Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Sir James Guthrie, 1859–1930, British
Title:
Street in Oban, Night
Date:
ca. 1893
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
16 x 12 inches (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in black paint, lower left: "JGuthrie."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Isabel S. Kurtz in memory of her father, Charles M. Kurtz
Copyright Status:
Copyright Undetermined
Accession Number:
B1989.17.2
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
road | brushstrokes | evening | cupola | figures (illustrations) | town | street | cityscape | walking | church | woman | sky | windows | night
Associated Places:
United Kingdom | Oban | Argyll and Bute | Scotland
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Charles M. Kurtz and the Glasgow School, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1990, Unpaginated, Unnumbered, ND481 .G5 C42 1990

Fifth Avenue Galleries : Catalogue of Oil Paintings, Water Colors, and Drawings of the Late Charles M. Kurtz, Ph.D, February 24-25, 1910, Fifth Avenue Galleries, New York, p. 80, Lot 117, N5220 .K87 F5 1910 YCBA

Florence N. Levy, Louisville Art League, Nov. 11-20, 1897, American Art Annual, vol. 1, The Macmillan Company, New York & London, 1899, p. 196, no. 73, Available via Hathi Trust Digital Library

Florence N. Levy, Paintings Sold at Auction, 1909-1910, American Art Annual, vol. 8, New York, 1911, p. 367, no. 117, Available via Hathi Trust Digital Library

Arleen Pancza-Graham, Charles Kurtz & the Glasgow School : An American Critical Response, Archives of the American Arts Journal, vol. 31, 1991, p. 17, Available online via JSTOR

Arleen Pancza-Graham, Charles M. Kurtz (1855-1909) : Aspects and Issues of a Cosmopolitan Career, The City University of New York, New York, 2002, p. 261, fig. 41, Available online at ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
Gallery Label:
Sir James Guthrie became a leading figure in Scottish art in the late nineteenth century. Initially rejected by the conservative Glasgow Art Club for his expressive painting technique, he later became President of the Scottish Royal Academy (1902–19) and received a knighthood in 1903. An admirer of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Guthrie favored naturalism over sentimentality and was among the first artists in Scotland to paint en plein air. The loose, gestural brush marks and passages of light and dark in this painting evoke the shift from day to nighttime. Inspired by contemporary French painting, Guthrie focused on capturing the everyday reality of rural communities, here depicting a working street in the small coastal town of Oban in Scotland, where the advent of a railway in 1880 had led to increased industry and tourism.\n\n Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2020
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1310