– or rather the smell of the place, meant a lot to him. Yes, I think he got much 'inspiration' from the boards – and the thought and feel of it all, as of a magical place ... He was an associate of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers from 1901 and vice-president in 1921. His first one-man exhibition was held at the Baillie Gallery in 1911. He also exhibited at the Goupil Gallery, the Leicester Galleries, the Grosvenor Gallery, London Salon, New English Art Club, Royal Hibernian Academy, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and Royal Scottish Academy. In 1934 he was elected an honorary member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. His only work as a theatre designer was for a production at the Savoy Theatre of Othello in 1930. He became ill in 1939, and died on 24 February 1941 in St Mary Abbots Hospital in Kensington. He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium. Reception Pryde did not belong to any artistic school or movement. His work was highly regarded in his lifetime; in 1922 Frank Rutter, in his Some Contemporary Artists, described him as "stupendous". He had only two one-man shows, in 1911 at the Baillie Gallery and in 1933 at the Leicester Galleries. In 1949 an Arts Council Memorial Exhibition toured Edinburgh, Brighton and London. His work as a painter received little subsequent attention until 1992, when an exhibition was held at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. References Further reading International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers. Illustrated Souvenir Catalogue of the Exhibition of International Art, Knightsbridge, May 1898. London: W. Heinemann, 1898 International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers. Catalogue of the Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture at the Third Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, held in the galleries, 191 Piccadilly, October 7th to December 10th, 1901. London: Printing Arts Co., 1901 Derek Hudson. James Pryde, 1866-1941. London: Constable, 1949 Jane Johnson and Anna Gruetzner. Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940. Woodbridge: The Antique Collectors' Club, 1980 Kenneth McConkey. Memory and Desire: Painting in Britain and Ireland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Aldershot; Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2002 External links British poster artists 1866 births 1941 deaths Scottish scenic designers Scottish lithographers Nicholson arts family Académie Julian alumni