Catalogue entry
T03292 GOLGOTHA 1927–8 and c.1948
Not inscribed
Oil on canvas, 54 × 96 (137 × 244)
Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1981
Exh: Painters in Parallel, Edinburgh College of Art, August–September 1978 (121); William Johnstone, Hayward Gallery, February–March 1981 (14, repr., as ‘Golgotha’ 1927–9)
Lit: Douglas Hall, William Johnstone, 1980, pp.48, 52 and repr.p.60 (as ‘Golgotha’ 1949–50); William Johnstone, Points in Time, an Autobiography, 1980, pp.116 and 322; Paul Overy in William Johnstone (exh. catalogue), Hayward Gallery, February–March 1981, p.6
'Golgotha’ was begun in Scotland in 1927, shortly after the artist's return to his home town, Selkirk, following a period of some eighteen months' study in Paris. Although it was not exhibited until fifty years later, this date is given in his autobiography and was confirmed by him in an interview at the Tate Gallery on 18 September 1981, a recording of which is in the Archive Department. He also wrote a note about the Gallery's two paintings, dated 29 September 1981… (read more)
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