John Maxwell
RSA
Born: 1905
Place of Birth: Dalbeattie
Died: 1962
Born in Dalbeattie in Kirkcudbrightshire, John Maxwell studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1921 to 1927 and then, with the aid of a travelling scholarship, from 1927 to 1928 at the Académie Moderne in Paris under Léger and Ozenfant. He also travelled to Italy and Spain during this period, where he discovered the work of Chagall and the Symbolists.