WATSON, Homer
Canadian (1855-1936)
THE LOTHIAN HILLS
1892
Oil on canvas

Mr. Weir purchased this work from the artist in the early 1920s. As mentioned, Watson lived and worked in England and Scotland between 1887-1891, and began work on this canvas after his return home to Doon.

Mr. Weir elaborates on the piece in a 1963 letter to art historian, J. Russell Harper: “The large Homer Watson which I have was not painted outside Canada. It was painted in Homer’s studio at Doon. He told me it was a Scotch scene which constantly came up in his memory. He said he saw it out of a train between Glasgow and Edinburgh.”