James Craig Annan (1864-1946)

Aliases: James Graig Annan

Professions: Photographer

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  James Craig Annan (Scottish, 1864-1946) Harlech Castle, 1909 Paper 31.5 x 45cm (12 3/8 x 17 11/16in), image 22.5 x 32cm (8 7/8 x 12 5/8in).

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  JAMES CRAIG ANNAN (1864-1946)

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  JAMES CRAIG ANNAN (1864-1946)

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  James Craig Annan (Scottish, 1864-1946); The Dark Mountains, from Camera Work;

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James Craig Annan Biography

(b Hamilton, 8 March 1864; d Lenzie, nr Glasgow, 5 June 1946). Son of (1) Thomas Annan. He studied chemistry and natural philosophy before entering the family photographic business, T. & R. Annan. In 1883 he was sent to Vienna to learn the technique of ‘heliogravure’ or photogravure from KAREL KLÍC, for which his father had acquired the British patent rights and in which he was to produce most of his best work. James Craig Annan received no formal artistic training but associated with contemporary Glasgow painters and etchers, including his friends Sir David Young Cameron (1865–1945), Muirhead Bone and William Strang, whose work, like his, was influenced by the graphic style of Whistler. In 1892 Annan and Cameron visited the Netherlands. On his return Annan produced photogravures (or ‘monotones’ as he called them), influenced by the Hague school and by Dutch 17th-century masters, such as Utrecht Pastoral (1892; see 1986 exh. cat., p. 39) and On a Dutch Shore (see M. Haworth-Booth, p. 170), both exhibited at the Annan Gallery at 230 Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow.

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