James McBey 1883-1959
Born in Aberdeenshire in 1883, McBey began his career as a self-taught artist. Originally a banker by trade, by 1910 he had built up the artist confidence to pursue his art on a full-time basis - travelling throughout Europe, North Africa and America. In 1912 he travelled to Morocco with the artist James Kerr Lawson, and incorporated watercolours into his oeuvre. During the First World War McBey was commissioned as a war artist, travelling widely throughout the Middle East.
In his later years, McBey lived primarily near Tangier in Morocco, although spent the final three years of the Second World War in America. After the war he returned to live in Tangier, but returned regularly to Britain and the United States. He died in Tangier, Morocco in 1959.
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Coast
1 Apr - 1 May 2021 EdinburghFind the online viewing room for Coast here. Scotland’s coastline is one which naturally inspires in its dramatic geography. Coast presents a journey around the shores of the Scottish homeland,...Read more -
Hang 2 //
Scottish Painting 1900-1940 13 Feb - 14 Mar 2020 EdinburghThe years 1900 to 1939 saw Britain move from a period of relative innocence and comfort to the trauma of war. After World War 1, artists retreated to more traditional,...Read more -
The Print Show
13 Jan - 8 Feb 2020 EdinburghThe Print Show presented an annual exhibition of Scottish printmaking, featuring three centuries of etchings, drypoint, woodcuts and lithography. Exhibited artists included: Sir Muirhead Bone, James Mcbey, Gerald Brockhurst, Robert...Read more -
Intimate
A Portrait 25 Jul - 31 Aug 2019 EdinburghClose and personal portraiture: painting, sculpture and photography by living and twentieth century artists whose sitters are closest to them or whose inner workings engage them, sometimes the artist themselves....Read more
