... Jesse James... focuses on the slightly
melancholy latter years of Jesse James, in his mid 30's, well past the days the notorious James gang made their reputation.
Eight large and recent paintings by Shaw will be shown alongside two paintings normally on display at the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) that have long obsessed the artist, Joseph Noel Paton's (1821 - 1901) The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania, 1849 and Lucas Cranach's (1472 - 1553) An Allegory of
Melancholy, 1528 (the
latter work has been on long loan to the Galleries for more than 20
years).