Portrait of a Scottish Officer Neutral and its popular character

and its popular character

variously living in Los Angeles and San Francisco portraying the screen personalities of the day

His figurative oils and drawings have always fascinated me

Despite that

Portrait of a Scottish Officer Neutral and its popular characterThis rather haunted portrait of an officer in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders is likely to have been painted on a return visit from Poland. Signed and dated 1915, this man must have already experienced the senseless attrition of trench warfare. It is a small scale canvas and although the sitter is in uniform it has an informality about it that suggests a window of opportunity grasped. Perhaps he is about to go back to the front and his wife,