Adam Bruce Thomson
OBE, RSA, PPRSW Born: 1885Died: 1976
Bruce Thomson - or 'Adam B', as he was often called - was a painter of great integrity whose long, productive life tells the story of Scottish painting for the first three quarters the twentieth century. Thomson was born in 1885, attending first the Trustees Academy and then the newly established Edinburgh College of Art where he received diplomas in both Drawing and Painting, and Architecture before scholarships took him abroad to Spain and then Paris. He was an accomplished etcher and lithographer and he also sought expertise in the difficult media of pastel and watercolour. By the 1920s, his technique was closest to S.J. Peploe, Cadell and other contemporaries favouring the technique of painting on a gesso ground with an oil-reduced vehicle so the subjects tended to be treated in flat areas of colour.
Thomson served in the Great War before returning to the College where he taught etching, composition and still life to the painting school and colour theory to the architecture students. His association with Edinburgh College of Art continued until his death as, although he retired from teaching in 1950, he continued as an examiner and a Trustee. His links with both the RSA, where he was Treasurer for seven years and the RSW, where he served as President for a further seven years from 1957 were very important to him. He was awarded an OBE in 1963.
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Edinburgh Skyline Princes Street Gardens View details
Adam Bruce Thomson
Edinburgh Skyline Princes Street Gardens
c.1960watercolourH:51cm W:63.5cm£3,950Dean Bridge View detailsAdam Bruce Thomson
Dean Bridge
1935-40watercolourH:28cm W:33.5cm£1,500Arthur's Seat at Sunset View detailsAdam Bruce Thomson
Arthur's Seat at Sunset
c.1970watercolourH:19.5cm W:27cm£1,150Arthur's Seat Through the Trees View detailsAdam Bruce Thomson
Arthur's Seat Through the Trees
c.1960pen and ink washH:32cm W:49cm£1,750Melrose Abbey View detailsAdam Bruce Thomson
Melrose Abbey
pen drawingH:27cm W:38cm£1,100Borders Harvest View detailsAdam Bruce Thomson
Borders Harvest
c. 1960watercolourH:38.5cm W:53.5cm£2,350Overlooking Plockton View detailsAdam Bruce Thomson
Overlooking Plockton
c.1846watercolourH:45cm W:62cm£3,950Coal Puffer on Iona Beach View detailsAdam Bruce Thomson
Coal Puffer on Iona Beach
watercolourH:37cm W:52cm£2,450Adam Bruce Thomson with the Minister of Lismore View details-
The Crags from Dumbiedykes, Winter View details
Adam Bruce Thomson
The Crags from Dumbiedykes, Winter
c.1965watercolourH:27cm W:38cmSoldThe Derelict Factory View detailsAdam Bruce Thomson
The Derelict Factory
c.1908etchingH:16cm W:21cmSoldArthur's Seat, Evening from the Burns Monument View detailsAdam Bruce Thomson
Arthur's Seat, Evening from the Burns Monument
c.1940watercolourH:19.5cm W:24.5cmSoldHarvest Field and Eildon Hills View detailsAdam Bruce Thomson
Harvest Field and Eildon Hills
c.1946watercolourH:36.5cm W:51cmSoldBorder Landscape with Red Fields View detailsAdam Bruce Thomson
Border Landscape with Red Fields
c.1960watercolourH:36.5cm W:53cmSoldZeppelin on the Ground View detailsAdam Bruce Thomson
Zeppelin on the Ground
Sept 1916pen drawing with pencilH:35.2 x 43.2cmScottish National Gallery of Modern ArtTiger Lilies View detailsAdam Bruce Thomson
Tiger Lilies
c.1960oil on canvasH:61cm W:51cmSoldColinton View detailsAdam Bruce Thomson
Colinton
c.1950pen and ink washH:37cm W:47cmSoldSheep Shearers, Skye View detailsAdam Bruce Thomson
Sheep Shearers, Skye
c.1923pastelH:26cm W:36cmSoldHolyrood and Arthurs Seat View detailsAdam Bruce Thomson
Holyrood and Arthurs Seat
watercolourH:25cm W:35cmSoldStormy Day, St Abbs Harbour View detailsAdam Bruce Thomson
Stormy Day, St Abbs Harbour
1952watercolourH:27.5cm W:35.5cmSoldBonawe Quarry, Loch Etive, Argyll View detailsLoading
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