Doves and Dreams
Doves and Dreams is organised in partnership with the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow
27 January - 22 April 2007
Pencil and watercolour
s. and d.b.l.: 'J. HERBERT McNAIR 1893'
46.0 x 37.0 (18 1/8 x 14 5/8) (sight)
Donald and Eleanor Taffner, New York
This is a complex work. It may be read as a celebration of physical love.
It may also depict the Christian subjects of the Creation of Eve, a guardian angel at left, and temptation emerging at bottom left.
The figures at top right may be personifications of the wind and the moon.