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Description: | The University of Dundee's Fine Art Collections began on the same day as the University at the opening of University College, Dundee in 1883 when a portrait of the College's founder Mary Ann Baxter was presented. Various other institutional portraits have since been acquired (see DUNUC CLD015) but the collections properly began in 1951 with a large donation of Scottish and English paintings and drawings by former student James Nicoll (see DUNUC CLD019). This was followed in 1960 by a monetary gift by another former student James Lamb which led to a series of purchases of Scottish art by a Fine Art Purchasing Committee (see DUNUC CLD014) during the 1960s and 70s. Various other gifts and bequests have since been made including the Knox Bequest (DUNUC CLD020), the Alan Woods Bequest (DUNUC CLD002-004) and the Scottish Arts Council Bequest (DUNUC CLD001). The collections have been greatly augmented thanks to the affiliation of other institutions including Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DUNUC CLD021), Dundee College of Education (DUNUC CLD041) and works from local hospitals accessioned as part of the Tayside Medical History Museum (DUNUC CLD037). The collections mostly comprise Scottish art (DUNUC CLD017) and some English art (DUNUC CLD018). A number of topographical views of Dundee are also present (DUNUC CLD016). | Format: | pastel watercolours photographs screenprints acrylic gouache pencil drawings artists' books, etc photo-etchings chalk sculptures oil paintings pen and ink collage prints lithographs | Subjects: | Fine Art | Source: | University of Dundee | Address: | 5-7 Hawkhill Place,
DD1 4HN | Creator: | University of Dundee and predecessor bodies | Contributor: | Accessioned by Museum Services from 1995 | Identifier: | DUNUC-CLD013 | Language: | en-GB | Relation: | DUNUC-CLD000 | Format: | pastel watercolours photographs screenprints acrylic gouache pencil drawings artists' books, etc photo-etchings chalk sculptures oil paintings pen and ink collage prints lithographs |
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