Dyke White
Charles Gordon McClure (1885â1933), also known as Dyke White, was a Scottish artist, best known for his political cartoons in the Scottish press.
Biography
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He was born in Garlieston, Wigtownshire, the youngest of the seven children of William McClure and Catherine, nĂ©e Puckett, and was always known by the family as Gordon. Gordonâs father was originally a shopkeeper in Garlieston, but the family moved to Glasgow some time between 1891 and 1901.
Gordon attended the Glasgow School of Art, and was awarded a Haldane Travelling Scholarship which enabled him to travel on the continent. He was initially a painter, and exhibited at the Glasgow Royal Institute of Fine Arts and other Scottish exhibitions. One of his oil paintings is said to have caused a furore in the Glasgow Art Gallery. It was called âThe Intruderâ, and was a painting of a lady bathing in the bulrushes with someone peeping in at her. He found he had a talent as a cartoonist, and joined the Glasgow branch of the National Union of Journalists in November 1917, moving to London in June 1926 and back to Glasgow in January 1929. He became a well-known cartoonist, working for Outram Press in Glasgow. His cartoons give a lively take on Public Life in the 1920s and 30's.[1] They were regularly printed in various Glasgow papers, including the Daily Record and Mail, and the Scottish Daily Express, and also for a period in London papers. He always worked under the pseudonym Dyke White, a name which harks back to his childhood in Garlieston (White Dyke Farm.) He worked briefly as a political cartoonist for the Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg, South Africa, but returned home, probably because he was disillusioned by the politics there.
Gordon was married to Hilda (nĂ©e Butler), and they had three children â Ramsey, Robin and Rachel.
He died on 25 July 1933 in Lenzie, near Glasgow. After his untimely death, a Memorial Exhibition of his cartoons was held by the Glasgow Art Club.[2]
References
[edit]- Murray Schoonraad, Elzabé Schoonraad (1989). Companion to South African cartoonists. Ad. Donker. ISBN 9780868521145.
- E. Goldston (1930). Comic art in England.
- â White, Dyke. "Dyke White Cartoons". Retrieved 10 June 2012.
- â "A Scottish Cartoonist - Memorial Exhibition of Dyke White's Work". The Herald (Glasgow). 13 January 1934. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
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