Taking a firm line

This book collects nearly 300 examples of Alasdair Gray’s work as a painter and illustrator.

This book collects nearly 300 examples of Alasdair Gray’s work as a painter and illustrator. As an art student in 1950s Glasgow, he scorned the conservatism of tutors who painted the way ‘Monet might have painted had he been timid and Scottish, with an inferior grasp of colour and design’.