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Kyles of Bute

© the copyright holder. Image credit: Scottish Maritime Museum

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British Railways used prints of this painting on posters advertising their Clyde Coast railway and steamer connection services. One of the four diesel ‘Maids’, commissioned by British Rail in the early 1950s, is travelling to the right of the image, whilst the famous 'Queen Mary II' steams to the left, resplendent in the colours of the Caledonian Steam Packet Company, which operated the ships. Alasdair MacFarlane moved to Glasgow in 1922. He worked for shipping line P. Henderson & Co., before joining the Clyde Navigation Trust in 1929. After a period with the Ministry of War Transport in London between 1940 and 1945 he re-joined the Clyde Navigation Trust. During the 1930s he produced a series of pleasure steamer drawings for the 'Glasgow Evening Citizen', and in the 1950s produced a similar set for the 'Glasgow Evening Times'.

Scottish Maritime Museum

Irvine

Title

Kyles of Bute

Date

1956

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 82 x W 125 cm

Accession number

IR:2010-036

Acquisition method

donated

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Alasdair Macfarlane

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