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Turf Harvest The Rosses Donegal ~ James Humbert Craig.

Turf Harvest the Rosses in this painting Craig documents the cutting of the bog in Donegal. The textures and colours in the painting lend an air of realism. The star of this Irish landscape by James Humbert Craig is the immense majestic mountains.

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James Humbert Craig.

Born in Belfast Craig spent his early years in Ballyholme, County Down. Craig derived little satisfaction from working in the family tea business but it did enable him to travel and paint. Apart from attending the Belfast College of Art for less than a term, Craig was self-taught. He first exhibited at the RHA in 1915 at the relatively late age of thirty-seven. In 1928 Craig is elected to the RHA.

A member of the Belfast Art Society from 1920, he was one of the first members of the Royal Ulster Academy when the society was formed in 1930. He exhibited regularly with the Fine Art Society in London. Craig had a significant following among younger artists. Craig and his followers ignored European Modernism. They were however perfectly in tune with the romantic attitudes prevalent in Ireland during the period. Craig, together with Paul Henry, Frank McKelvey, Charles Lamb, and Maurice MacGonigal, comes closest to personifying a distinctive Irish School of Painting.

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