it's incredibly rare to find works by joseph crawhall.us at draftsmanship absolute precocious perfectionist, and extraordinary to find them here in lanhydrock rather than in scotland and with the association with the glasgow school. when i first started in the art world when i was 16 i was looking forward to getting my driving test. when i got it, i borrowed my mother's volvo and one of the first things i did was drive right up to scotland on my own and visit all these marvelous museums-- kelvingrove, edinburgh bidborough collection. the glasgow boys really started about the 1880s and were influenced by bastien lepage in france and so you get this real great sense of painting outdoors square brushstrokes, similar to herbert letang. a number of british artists were also painting similar scenes. and the glasgow boys were certainly one of my real favorites--still are. especially crawhall, who is absolute genius. can you tell me a little bit more about the subjects? do they also relate to your family holidays or to the zoo? well, uncle lossie