Mid Argyll’s Furnace finds its quarry the subject of a painting in the Royal Scottish Academy

The Lochfyneside community of Furnace has discovered that the Royal Scottish Academy has in its collection a 1929 oil painting of Furnace Quarry by Archibald Kay. The title of the work is Furnace Quarry – the streets of a great city, neatly tying together the village, its quarry and the city of Glasgow whose streets were paved with its granite.

Kay was a landscape painter focused largely on the West Highlands, including Arran and the Isle of Iona. Furnace Quarry was evidently a favourite subject of his. The painting in the Royal Scottish Academy is particularly interesting because it is not a traditional landscape painting but an industrial one. You can see the painting on the RSA website.