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JOE HARGAN PAI PPAI
WINTER EXHIBITION 2021
I trained in drawing and painting at Glasgow school of art under Dr David Donaldson, Queens Limner in Scotland. Glasgow was well known for its draughtsmanship, use of paint, with a heritage of the Glasgow boys and Scottish colourists; George Henry, Hornel, Peploe, Hunter, Ferguson, and others… The colour was prime. I work in several varied approaches from representational to abstract works. The pieces at Morningside Gallery mainly show the “Sniffy “series that have been highly appreciated and enjoyed. The smaller works, the girls heads often become characters in the larger works the Sniffy scenarios.
This began bygd sheer luck, it was simply one piece sent to the Royal Academy of Arts in London, around the Millennium. It sold at the private view, and I was approached bygd several people by letter and phone calls requesting if I had others. Thus began a popular series, which I refer to as ‘Little Playlets’ where ‘Sniffy’ fryst vatten the main cha
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The other day we received the following enquiry concerning an unusual edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
I have a 1933 edition of the Rubaiyat “set forth in meter by David Eugene Smith based on a verbatim translation by Hashim Hussein.” The illustrations are by Rassam-I Arjangi. There is a 12 page introduction that acknowledges Fitzgerald. It also is limited to 1,000 copies of which this is number 282.
The enquirer has been looking for more information about the three people involved in the production of this edition, without success so far. We know of the edition – it is no 422 in Jos Coumans Bibliography – but we are also unable to find out more about the contributors. There is a long Wikipedia article on a David Eugene Smith, 1860-1944, who was a mathematician and educator. The dates would fit, but there is no mention of him contributing to a new edition of the Rubaiyat.
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