An education in art from an engineering magazine

. Unknown artist, despite 1917 signature: M&C Apprentices’ Magazine from December 1930 I didn’t expect to receive an art lesson from one of Scotland’s great engineering companies but that’s what I got from a copy of the M&C Apprentices’ Magazine from December 1930. Mavor & Coulson was founded in the 1880s and became a world-leading maker of underground coal mining machinery into the 1960s. And every page is dotted with illustrations by leading Scottish artists. Charles R. Dowell was a vice-president of the Glasgow School of Art First off is the cover, which looks like it is by ‘OHS 1917’. The initials are a mystery. But the contents page is signed by Charles [‘Chas’ Rennie] Dowell (1876–1935). Scottish Impressionist Dowell also drew headers for the regular pages He was a Scottish Impressionist, member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours, and a vice-president of the Glasgow School of Art. His CRD monogram is found on many of the illustrated headers on regular…