James Caw

Sir James Lewis Caw LLD HRSA (25 September 1864 – 5 December 1950)[1] was a Scottish art historian, critic and gallery director.

He argued for the existence of an independent and free-standing "Scottish school of painting" arising in the second half of the 19th century.

[1] Caw was introduced to the Scottish art world in the early 1880s by James Guthrie, and made significant friendships, in particular with some of the Glasgow Boys.

Caw is considered the major historian of Scottish art of the first half of the 20th century.

[5] Works on individual artists include: Himself a watercolour painter, Caw exhibited from 1887 to 1922.