James Guthrie (1859-1930) was born along the water in Greenock and regularly made use of the outdoors and the shifting coastal light to create his works. This one, entitled Hard At It, was painted at Cocksburnspath near Dunbar on the east coast where he lived between 1883-5 before returning to Glasgow.
It is housed with some notable others from this period in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum. It is, along with Leslie Hunter's Sails, Venice and E.A. Walton's The Smithy at the Crossroads, (paintings which embrace slowness as a way of illuminating being), one of the significant paintings of this particular period.
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