Edith Buchanan
1889 – 1978
Edith Buchanan was the daughter of J.G. Chrystal of Broomhill, Cardross. She served as a VAD in Dumbarton during the First World War and, in 1919, she married John Buchanan and moved to his estancia in the Argentine, returning to Scotland in 1923. Until the outbreak of World War II they lived at Ardpeaton in Coulport. In 1939 they bought Rowmore in Rhu, which was home for the family and, latterly for Edith Buchanan and her two daughters, for over thirty years.
Always interested in art, Edith Buchanan painted and sketched when she could. Later, she attended courses at Glasgow School of Art and participated in the activities of Helensburgh Art Club in its early days, with fellow artists. Gregor Ian Smith, Mary Allan, Agnes Steven, Joyce Rutherford, Penelope Kidston, Muriel Borland, among others. She was a gifted amateur painter in watercolour and the Anderson Trust is fortunate to own two of her paintings: “Auchengaich, Glen Fruin”, of the farm at the head of the glen, and “The Church in the Square”, now called The Parish Church since the union with the other Church of Scotland congregations in the town. At the time when this was painted the church in the Square was called Old and St Andrew’s.
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Works in Anderson Trust Collection
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| Auchengaich, Glen Fruin” - watercolour (above) | “The Church in the Square” - watercolour (right) |
