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Description: | The Pilgrim Trust ‘Recording Scotland’ Collection consists around 130 works, largely watercolours, gifted to the University of St Andrews in 1953. The ‘Recording Scotland’ project was designed to produce employment for artists during the Second World War, and create a permanent pictorial record of a Scotland thought to be at risk from bombs and growing industrialisation. The pictures, by artists including Stewart Carmichael, Robert Eadie, Andrew Archer Gamley, Alan Ian Ronald, David Foggie, John Guthrie Spence Smith, James Wright, Charles Oppenheimer and Samuel Peploe, range from castles, churches and the Clyde docks to village streets, fishing ports and cityscapes of Glasgow and Edinburgh. Collectively, they constitute an important pictorial archive of Scotland c.1940. The documentary archive relating to the Recording Scotland Collection is held by the University Library's Special Collections Department. | Subjects: | Watercolours Industrialisation Paintings fine art Decorative and Applied Art PILGRIM TRUST SECOND WORLD WAR Recording Scotland SCOTTISH HISTORY WORLD WAR II | Source: | University of St Andrews | Address: | KY16 9AJ | Creator: | The Pilgrim Trust | Contributor: | The Pilgrim Trust commissioned and built up the 'Recording Scotland' collection during the Second World War. It was presented to the University of t Andrews in 1953. | Identifier: | HC:C3 | Language: | en-GB | Relation: | MC:C48 |
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