Oil on board, signed lower left and dates 1975, title inscribed verso, 69 x 89cm
Ralph Cowan was born in Glasgow in 1904 and died just short of his 101st birthday, at the end of 2004.
He was an alumnus of the Glasgow School of Art and launched his own studio in 1925. He rapidly gained a reputation as a leading designer of decorative glass and was commissioned in 1938 to make the enormous, 46' high, window for the Scottish pavilion at the Empire Exhibition. He enlisted in the RAF during the war and later continued with remarkable stained glass commissions for a number of churches and for ocean liners. He taught art at Allan Glen's School for nearly a quarter of a centurey, and, from the 1960s focused more on painting and drawing. He was exhbited regularly in Scotland and in London until he was was 96. His glorious stained glass can be seen in the Broom Church in Newton Mearns and his work is held in many private collections and in the Hunterian and Argyll collections. Primarily motivated by colour, his stained glass was influenced by Chagall and Georges Rouault, his later painting by Rothko, Matisse and Van Gogh.
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