The Midweek Painting
Whiteinch Library – An Island Again
Frank McNab
About the painting
All the features in the picture – the glass-topped tables, the slanting newspaper reading shelves, and the curved wooden attendant’s alcove – can be seen at Whiteinch Library, Glasgow. Whiteinch is called after a sandy island here in the Clyde, when the river was much shallower, and now the library finds itself an island again, surrounded by the expressway and the cul-de-sacs of the housing scheme. The figure balancing so precariously above the shipyards is the self-taught man of Glasgow. He symbolises the spirit of learning and personal development in which the community libraries were built.
Frank McNab
About the artist
Frank McNab lives and works in Glasgow. He believes in the spirit of the self-taught culturally and politically aware person of Scotland. The sort of the person who fought in the Spanish civil war, squaring up against Franco’s Moorish Regulares at the Battle of Jarama. The sort of person who uses public libraries.
How to contact him
More of his work can be seen at:
www.frankmcnab.com
email: mcnab.artwork@ntlworld.com
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