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James Huck (8 May 1873 - 23 February 1940) was a Scottish painter. He became Assistant Director of the Glasgow School of Art.

Life
His father was John Huck (14 October 1837 - 24 November 1918), a dairyman.

His mother was Jane Brunton (c.1846 - 19 November 1909). They married on 25 December 1868.

James Huck was born in Lasswade, Midlothian on 8 May 1873.

He married Isabella Preston Cochrane (17 October 1877 - 18 January 1959) on 26 April 1902 in Edinburgh. They had 2 sons and 2 daughters.

Art
In the 1901 census he was a Drawing teacher staying at 4 Scotia Street, Glasgow as a lodger.

He went to the Glasgow School of Art and won a Haldane Scholarship of £50 in 1902.

In 1918, he was the first President of the Federation of Scottish Art Clubs.

RGI

By 1922 he was teaching at the Art School and giving lectures on art in the Royal Institute.

In 1924 he was giving lectures on the Painters of the Italian Renaissance to the Cambusnethan Teachers Association in Wishaw.

He broadened out his public lectures, giving a talk on Yarrow: Its poets and its romance to the people of Yarrow in 1932.

In the Glasgow Art Club exhibition of 1933 he exhibited works: Pastel Head (no. 78) deemed outstanding. Another smaller Pastel Head (no. 17) was notable.

He became Assistant Director of the Art School.

Death
He died on 23 February 1940.

From the Edinburgh Evening News: FORMER GLASGOW ART DIRECTOR The death has occurred at his home in Glasgow of Mr James Huck, a former assistant director of the Glasgow School of Art. Mr Huck received his early education in Hawick and Galashiels, and established an art school in the latter town. Later it developed into the South of Scotland Technical College. In 1900 he went to Glasgow and gained the Haldane Scholarship awarded by Glasgow School of Art. He also studied in Italy and France. On his return to Glasgow he was appointed to the staff of the School of Art. In addition., he held several teaching posts.

From The Scotsman: THE LATE MR JAMES HUCK The death has occurred at his home in Glasgow of Mr James Huck, a former assistant director of the Glasgow School of Art. Mr Huck, who received his early education in Hawick and Galashiels, early turned his attention to art. He established in Galashiels an art school, which later developed into the South of Scotland Technical College. In 1900 he went to Glasgow to secure further experience in figure drawing and painting, and he gained the Haldane Scholarship awarded by Glasgow School of Art. He afterwards continued his studies in Italy and in France. On returning to Glasgow Mr Huck was appointed to the staff of the School of Art and for a time he also held teaching appointments under the former Govan School Board and Lanarkshire Education Authority.

From the Southern Reporter: By the passing of Mr James Huck, the Borderland has lost a gifted son. He won national fame as an artist. His success was not thrust upon him, nor engineered by self-boasting, but web merited. He loved the Borderland with a knowledgeable passion, and many happy hours he spent in nomadic leisure in Yarrow, where every scene is artist’s dream of beauty. Huck was very popular with fellow Borderers in Glasgow. We have pleasant memories of meeting him at a foregathering of Fishers whose motto is Behauden to nane.

On his death, the Galashiels council were given his property; this was to fix a blind corner in the town, which was known as 'Huck's Corner'.

From the Southern Reporter: Town Council. —On Monday night the Town Council accepted an offer on behalf of the trustees of the late Mr James Huck to cede certain property in Glendinning Terrace. This means that the Council are now in a position to remove the blind corner a notoriously dangerous spot for both foot and wheeled traffic in bad weather — popularly known as 'Huck’s Corner'. It will be fenced off meantime pending further alterations.