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Description: | Douglas Strachan (1875 - 1950) born in Aberdeen, worked in London for a fixed period each year as a portrait painter. He was asked to design and make a stained glass window and from this first step into stained glass he abandoned portraiture completely. He moved to Lasswade, Midlothian, where he converted part of his house into a workshop and studio where he worked until his death in 1950. Strachan's windows can be found throughout Britain. The highest concentration of windows can be found in Edinburgh with fifty-five windows executed by Strachan. The University of Aberdeen has 11 windows created by Strachan, between the years 1903 - 1938. Kings College Chapel has seven memorial windows depicting biblical scenes and the founding of the university. The rest of the windows have been removed from their locations and are now in the care of the Marischal Museum's conservation laboratory. These windows include: Kings College Library window (now the King's College Conference Centre) which was removed for alterations to the building and the Marischal Library windows, which depicted the Faculties of Science in memory of John Cruickshank, which were removed from the University in the 1960's. These library windows have now rejoined the rest of the university's stunning collection of Strachan windows.
Sub collection: Douglas Strachan.
Super collection: Marischal Museum.
Objects: stained glass. | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Address: | King's College,
AB24 3FX | Contributor: | Acquisition details: Cruickshank, Anne Hamilton; Philips, Neil. | Identifier: | ABDUA:CLD41 | Go to resource |
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