David Gauld

Date of Birth: 1865

Date of Death: 1936

Place of Death: Glasgow, Scotland

Residence in Dumfries & Galloway:Shared a studio for a time with W S MacGeorge at Castlemains, Kirkcudbright, also had studio at Millburn Street, 1930.

Education: Glasgow School of Art

Professional Bodies:ARSA 1918, RSA 1924

Exhibited At:Royal Scottish Academy; Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts; Aberdeen Artists' Society

Member of the Glasgow School.

Notes: Shared a studio with Harrington Mann, bridging the gap between the Glasgow Boys* and Art Nouveau*. Well known for his studies of cattle.

Said by Miles Johnston to have painted mostly at Cannee and Low Boreland, near Kirkcudbright. His picture Calves is in Dundee Art Gallery.

Some Kirkcudbright artist was said to have written:

"There was a wee man named Gauld, Who painted three calves in a fauld, He's paintin' the noo a big Ayrshire coo, He'll maybe pent bulls when he's auld".

Source:
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David Gauld (7 November 1865 - 18 June 1936) was an important Scottish artist who worked in both oils and stained glass and was regarded as being one of the innovators within the Glasgow Boys group. Some of his works, such as St Agnes and Music are seen as precursors of the Art Nouveau movement.

His works were seen as having both a Japanese and Pre-Raphaelite influence upon them. Gauld was born in Glasgow and served an apprenticeship as a lithographer and then attended Glasgow School of Art from 1882 to 1885. He came to public notice in the 1880s when he supplied a series of Japanese-influenced pen and ink drawings for the Glasgow Weekly Citizen.

Gauld shared the Castlemains Studio in Kirkcudbright with William Stewart MacGeorge and then in later life shared a studio with Harrington Mann at 31 St Vincent Street in Glasgow from 1891 to 1894. During this time he designed stained glass windows for Guthrie and Wells. Gauld then took new premises at 138 West George Street in Glasgow.

He also lived at various locations in Kirkcudbright, Glasgow and North Berwick. In 1889 he returned to the Glasgow School of Art and also studied in Paris for a period that year. Like other artists from Glasgow, Gauld spent time at the artists colony at Grez-sur-Loing in France.

Forty-three examples of David Gauld's work are held in the collections of various UK public galleries including Glasgow Museums, The Hunterian, The Scottish National Gallery, Kelvingrove, Gracefield, Paisley, Kirkcaldy and The Fleming Collection (London).

David Gauld was a Scottish artist known for his depictions of sun-dappled cattle and elegant figures in watercolor. He was part of the Glasgow Boys and trained at the Glasgow School of Art. Gauld was also involved in the city's artistic community, including working with stained glass and having a close friendship with Charles Rennie Mackintosh. In the late 1930s, he became the Director of Design at the Glasgow School of Art. Gauld's work showed influences from Japanese prints and had a strong narrative quality. He was a member of the Glasgow Art Club, and some of his works were gifted to the club upon his death.