James kay biography
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James Kay, 1858-1942
James Kay is one of the outstanding artists whose work is in the Scottish Colourist tradition.
James kay biography
He was born on the Isle of Arran, the son of a naval man; the Scottish landscape, the coast, the sea and its busy ports remained vital themes in his paintings for all his working life.
Kay moved to Glasgow, becoming a clerk in an insurance office, in 1881.
It was not long, however, before he determined to chart a new direction and attended the Glasgow School of Art. There, Kay may well have met his contemporary and fellow Scot, George Henry, who also studied at the GSA for a short period in the early 1880s.
This was not yet the School which nurtured the talents of artists such as Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret MacDonald. Nevertheless, Glasgow was rapidly becoming a rich, industrial city with a developing cultural identity which was separate from that of its more established rival, Edinburgh: Kay and his peers must have been aware of this exciting milieu -