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Framed dimensions: 63.5 x 89 cm
signed and dated lower left; signed and titled verso
In many of his later still life compositions, McClure plays visual games with the ‘painting within a painting’ genre, a technique also employed by his Edinburgh School contemporary Robin Philipson and others. In Green Marble and White Jug, there is a classic tipped tabletop still life, another genre typified by Redpath and Gillies, where the still life objects are arranged and shown as if viewed from an elevated angle. It’s a visual illusion of a still life painting, sitting on an easel and where the perspective is skewed, and the deep outlined shadows of the painting offer a three dimensional view. Is it a picture of a painting on an easel or of objects on a tabletop? McClure creates further confusion by mischievously allowing details to escape out over the edge of the suggested canvas on the easel and into the painting’s ‘real space’.
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