James McIntosh Patrick, OBE RSA (4 February 1907 – 7 April 1998)[1] was a Scottish painter, celebrated for his finely observed paintings of the Angus landscape and Dundee, Scotland, where he was based for most of his life.
A foremost landscape painter, he began his career producing highly finished etchings, but when the market for these collapsed in the 1930s he turned towards painting in watercolour and oil.
He continued to teach there for most of the rest of his life, latterly in highly popular non-vocational painting classes on Saturday mornings.
Less unconventionally, his landscapes frequently make use of lanes, roads, waterways or other features leading from foreground to middle distance or beyond, drawing the viewer into the picture.
[5] Other examples of Patrick's works held as part of the university's fine art collections include portraits of Principal Angus Robertson Fulton[6] and Arthur Alexander Matheson.