Westminster College to Host Local Artist Print Signing at 150th Birthday Bash

The print, a stunning winter scene of Westminster's landmark Old Main, is for sale at the Westminster College Book Store.

It is appropriate that McGill's print celebrates the 150th birthday of Westminster College, since it was his great-grandfather Rev. John Anderson McGill who was part of the College's founding committee.  The McGill name continues in Westminster 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 Westminster College.

McGill, a 1968 Westminster College 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.