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LOOKING OVER KILLIECRANKIE

56 by 61 cm., 22 by 24 in.

signed and dated on the reverse: J. D. FERGUSSON./ 1922; further inscribed and signed on an old label attached to the stretcher: No. 8. Looking Over Killiecrankie/ J. D. FERGUSSON.

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Alice Moore of Chatham, New Jersey;
Terence McGee of Chatham, New Jersey (by 1942);
By descent to the present owner

EXHIBITED

New York, The Whitney Studio (now the Whitney Museum), John Duncan Fergusson Exhibition, December 1926, no. 8

NOTE

In 1922 Fergusson went with his oldest friend John Ressich on a driving tour of the Scottish Highlands starting in Glasgow on the 29th May. They reached Pitlochry on the second day of their trip where Fergusson bought a hat before driving onward to Blair Atholl. This took him along one of the most picturesque roads in Scotland, the Pass of Killiecrankie; 'through Glengarry to Dalwhinnie where taking the wrong turning we were very fortunately made Newtonmore and thurned there to come back by Laggan and the Loch Laggan road to Spean Bridge. The road through Loch Laggan was one of the most beautiful of our trip, Ben Alder Forest particularly on the south shores striking our attention.' (Margaret Morris, The Art of J. D. Fergusson, A Biased Biography, 1974, p. 141)

Comparable landscapes by Fergusson, also dated to 1922 are A Puff of Smoke Near Milngavie (private collection) and In Glen Isla (University of Stirling, J. D. Fergusson Memorial Collection).