Posted on Tuesday, January 15, 2002
The print, a stunning winter scene of ¾¨Ó㴫ý's landmark Old Main, is for sale at the ¾¨Ó㴫ý Book Store.
It is appropriate that McGill's print celebrates the 150th birthday of ¾¨Ó㴫ý, since it was his great-grandfather Rev. John Anderson McGill who was part of the College's founding committee. The McGill name continues in ¾¨Ó㴫ý history with grandfather Ralph Gibson McGill, a 1902 graduate who was a missionary in Egypt and for whom the McGill Library is named. His father, Willis A. McGill '33, still plays an active role in the College's large collection of Egyptian antiquities. Many other relatives also attended and graduated from ¾¨Ó㴫ý.
McGill, a 1968 ¾¨Ó㴫ý graduate, creates his works with vibrant pastels. "As I see it, nature seems to resemble no image more closely than a painting in soft pastel, with rich smooth colors, blended softly with the fingers."
McGill worked in the corporate world until he took up painting as a full-time career in 1983. His office is now a renovated chicken coop filled with soft classical music that rests on the banks of Greater Neshannock Creek of Volant.
For more information, e-mail McGill at gibmcgill@pathway.net.
