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Description: | The university continues to enrich its collection of art through acquisitions, commissions and the generous gifts of alumni and artists. Recent acquisitions have been commissioned for the new Suttie centre. The centre for teaching and learning in Healthcare opened on the Foresterhill campus 2009. The works comprise 'The Patient' by Joyce Cairns, 'Hippocratic Oath' by Ron Haselden and Neil Urquhart and a suspended sculpture by Marilene Oliver. Oliver's piece is a construction of clear acrylic discs printed with scan imagery of Professor John Mallard and Ian Suttie. The collection spans an impressive range of Scottish artists including works by: Sir Robin Philipson (1916 - 1992) 'Rose Window'; Anne Redpath (1895 - 1965) 'Holy Family Belem' and 'White Horse and Cottage'; Dame Elizabeth Blackadder (1931-) 'Still life and Prayer Rug', 'Orchid - Odontoglossum in a pot', 'Koi carp'; Gordon Bryce 'The Chinese vase'; Joseph Farquharson (1847 - 1935) 'Landscape under snow with sheep'; Barbara Rae (1943 - ) 'The Netta crone'; Victoria Crowe (1945 - ) 'Dawn from Italy' 'Interior with passing figure'; Joyce Cairns (1948 - ) Dovecote cottage'; John Houston (1930 - 2008) 'Cornfield Evening'. A number of sculptures are also spread throughout the campus: 'Northern Light' by George Wyllie (1921 - ) situated in the Hillhead student village; 'Case' a bronze work by sculptor Steve Dilworth (1959 - ) situated between the Old Brewary and the Taylor Building; and 'Diagram' by Orkney Sculptor Sam MacDonald which is impressively installed at the reception area of the institute of Medical Sciences at Foresterhill. The most prominent of all the university's art works 'Youth with a Split Apple' a bronze cast by Kenny Hunter was commissioned in 2005 and is now situated in front of the New Kings Building. The generous donors to this collection include Professor Derek Ogston who donated pieces from Anne Redpath and Sir Robin Philipson.
Super collection: Marischal Museum.
Objects: painting; sculpture; casts. | Subjects: | Sculpture Painting Fine Art Drawings. | Temporal: | 1890 - 2009 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Address: | King's College,
AB24 3FX | Identifier: | ABDUA:CLD39 | Relation: | ABDUA:CLD00 | Go to resource |
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