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In July 1947 Blyth bought a picture he recorded as A Summer Day in his notebook from <strong>The</strong> <strong>Scottish</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong> while <strong>the</strong><br />
transaction in <strong>the</strong> company’s books refers to Summertime. It must be same picture and <strong>the</strong> likely explanation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
changed title lies in Blyth’s McTaggart scholarship: he will have researched his new purchase back to Caw’s list and<br />
identified it as that painted in 1898, previously in <strong>the</strong> collection <strong>of</strong> John Duncan Jr. <strong>of</strong> Edinburgh (who had a substantial<br />
collection <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> artists’ work), a smaller version <strong>of</strong> A Summer Day, Machrihanish in <strong>the</strong> collection <strong>of</strong> TGS Roberts.<br />
It is as fresh and direct as any Machrihanish painting he ever made. As usual he was <strong>the</strong>re in June and we can almost smell<br />
<strong>the</strong> ozone in <strong>the</strong> air as children play in a break in <strong>the</strong> dunes, <strong>the</strong> bay hinted at beyond.<br />
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