Aberdeen Art Gallery
Foundation date: 1885
Function: Art gallery
History or description: 'Erected by public subscription in 1883. The gallery contains the unique Macdonald Collection of artists' portraits, and a very fine collection of casts presented by numerous citizens and friends. Large extensions suggested by Sir Geo. Reid and designed by A.M. Mackenzie, A.R.S.A. and Sons were completed in April, 1905. A grant of £8,000 for this purpose was made by the Trustees of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Clark of Aberdeen. The additions comprise several spacious galleries and sculpture courts' (Year's Art, 1907, p. 274).
1906
Chairman: James Murray, DL, MP, Glenburnie Park, Aberdeen
Honourary Secretary and Treasurer: William Smith, Advocate, 201 Union Street, Aberdeen
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
New entries have been made each time a work was exhibited due to a lack of evidence about the state, medium or edition shown.
Lent The artist's father
1916
Lent The kid
1944
Own The Annunciation
1946
Accession number: ABDAG004637. Purchased with income from the Macdonald Bequest in
Own Hypnos
1969
Accession number: ABDAG004674. Acquired in
Exhibitions, Courses, Meetings and other Events
Organized Opening of the new Sculpture Gallery at Aberdeen, 1905
1905
Citing this record
'Aberdeen Art Gallery', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/organization.php?id=msib6_1207059134, accessed 02 Jun 2023]
