Full Description
This volume examines the emergence of a market for Scottish art among Scotland's wealthy industrialists in the mid-nineteenth century and in the period leading up to the First World War. As well as considering key mercantile collectors such as James Guthrie Orchar and James Keiller in Dundee, James Duncan in Greenock, John Forbes White in Aberdeen and Sir William Burrell and William McInnes in Glasgow, it focuses on major art dealers such as Alexander Reid, who gave the artists Joseph Crawhall, George Henry and E.A. Hornel their first solo exhibitions. In Edinburgh Scottish artists were supported initially by Alexander Hill and later by Peter McOmish Dott at the Scottish Gallery, who supported the Scottish Colourists in the early 20th century. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students of Art History and Scottish History.
Contents
Volume 4
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
General Introduction
Volume 4 - Introduction
Part 1: Artists' Societies and Exhibitions
1. Preface to The Exhibition of the Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The First (Edinburgh: J. Pillans & Son, 1827), pp. 3-7
2. Preface to The Exhibition of the Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Second (Edinburgh: J. Pillans & Son, 1828), pp. 3-7
3. Preface to The Exhibition of the Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Third (Edinburgh: J. Pillans & Son, 1829), pp. 3-6.
4. George R. Halkett, 'Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts', The Magazine of Art (London, Paris & New York: Cassel, Petter, Galpin & Co, 1880), pp. 341-344.
5. Anon, 'West of Scotland Fine Art Exhibition', Greenock Advertiser, 2 July 1861
6. Anon, 'An Art Exhibition in Dundee', The Dundee Courier and Argus, 26 May 1864
7. T.S. Robertson, 'Provost Orchar of Broughty Ferry', The Dundee Courier and Argus, 26 June 1905
8. Anon, 'The Opening of the Arts Exhibition', Aberdeen Journal, 6 August 1873
9. Anon, 'The Arts Exhibition', Aberdeen Journal, 13 August 1873.
10. Anon, 'The Arts Exhibition', Aberdeen Journal, 20 August 1873.
11. First Annual Report of the Paisley Art Institute, constituted 1876 (Paisley: J & J Cook, 1878)
Part 2. Scotland's Art Galleries and Museums: Collecting and Philanthropy
12. Gustav Waagen, extract from letter XXVIII, 'Edinburgh', Treasures of Art in Great Britain: Being an Account of the Chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated MSS &c, 3 vols, 1854, Vol. 3, pp. 266-279.
13. Gustav Waagen, extract from letter XXVIII, 'Glasgow', Treasures of Art in Great Britain: Being an Account of the Chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated MSS &c, 3 vols, 1854, Vol. 3, pp. 286-291.
14. James Paterson, 'Episodes in the Art Life of the West of Scotland'
15. James Paton, 'Public Art in Glasgow', The Fine Art Collection of Glasgow, (Glasgow: James Maclehose & Sons, 1906), pp. 1-44.
16. J. C. Robinson, 'Report on the Art Collections, Corporation Galleries, Glasgow', Parks and Galleries Trust, Glasgow, 1882.
17. Anon, 'Death of Provost Orchar: Sketch of his Career', Dundee Advertiser, 16 May 1898.
18. Anon, 'The Victoria Art Galleries', The Dundee Courier & Argus, 21 October, 1889.
19. Edward Pinnington, 'Art Collections of Dundee and District', 1: Corporation Galleries, Dundee Advertiser, 24 April 1909
20. Anon, 'Aberdeen Fine Art Exhibition Opening Ceremony', Aberdeen Journal, 8 July, 1885
Part 3. Loan Shows and International Exhibitions
21. 'Fine Art Loan Exhibition in Glasgow', The Scotsman, 10 May, 1878, p. 5
22. James Craik, John Eadie, James Galbraith, 'Alexander Bannatyne Stewart 1836-1880', Memoirs and Portraits of 100 Glasgow Men who have Died During the Last Thirty Years, and in their Lives did Much to Make the City what it Now is, two vols, 1886, no.86.
23. Anon, 'The Edinburgh 1886 International Exhibition: The Fine Art Section', The Art Journal, 1886, pp.255-256.
24. Robert A. M. Stevenson, 'French and Dutch Pictures in Edinburgh', Magazine of Art, 1886, pp. 482-484.
25. W. E. Henley, Preface in A Century of Artists: A Memorial of the Loan Collection of Painting and Sculpture, International Exhibition, Glasgow, Glasgow 1889, pp. ix-xii.
26. Robert Walker, Robert and Davison, T. Raffles, 'The Fine Arts', Pen-and-Ink Notes at the Glasgow Exhibition, (London: J.S. Virtue & Co, 1888), pp.77-101
Part 4. Art and Commerce: The Rise of the Market
27. William Buchanan, 'Mr Gordon's Collection', in Memoirs of painting: with a chronological history of the importation of pictures by the great masters into England since the French Revolution (Vol.1) (London 1824), pp. 80-94
28. Jeremy Maas, Gambart: Prince of the Victorian Art World (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1975), pp. 81-87
29. Ronald Pickvance, Introduction to A Man of Influence: Alex Reid 1854-1928 (Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh 1967), pp. 5-16
30. Alex Reid, 'Joseph Crawhall Junior', introduction to the Catalogue of the Collected Works of Joseph Crawhall, Jr., 1894, La Société des Beaux-Arts, Glasgow
31. Letter dated 14 January 1946, from Sir William Burrell, Hutton Castle, Berwick on Tweed to A.J. McNeill Reid
32. Letter from W.B. Paterson to Charles M. Kurtz, Director of the St Louis Exposition, 1895
33. Letter from Alex Reid to Charles M. Kurtz, Director of the St Louis Exposition, 1895
34. Undated letter from Bessie MacNicol, 175 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, to John W. Beatty, first Director of the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1895.
35. The Purchase of Pictures, The Wizard of the North, 30 Nov 1894, p. 95.
Part 5. Collecting and Patronage in Glasgow and the West of Scotland
36. R. A. M. Steveson, 'A Representative Scottish Collection', The Art Journal, 1894, pp. 257-261.
37. Robert Walker, 'Private Picture Collections in Glasgow and West of Scotland I - Mr James Reid's Collection', Magazine of Art 1894, pp.153-159.
38. James Craik, John Eadie and James Galbraith, et al, 'John McGavin 1816-1881', Memoirs and portraits of one hundred Glasgow Men, two vols, Glasgow 1886, no. 56
39. Robert Walker, 'Private Picture Collections in Glasgow and West of Scotland II - Mr Andrew Maxwell's Collection, Magazine of Art 1894, pp. 221-227
40. Robert Walker, 'Private Picture Collections in Glasgow and West of Scotland - Mr. A.J. Kirkpatrick's Collection', Magazine of Art, 1895, pp. 41-47.
41. Robert Walker, 'The Collection of J. Carfrae Alston, Esq.', Magazine of Art, 1900, pp.193-199.
42. A.L. Baldry, 'The Collection of George McCulloch, Esq.', The Art Journal 1897, pp. 373-376.
43. Arthur Kay, A Treasure Trove in Art (Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd, 1939), pp. 27-30.
44. Anon, 'Late Arthur Kay: Art Collector and Connoisseur', The Scotsman, 2 January 1939, p.8.
Part 6. Art Collections in Dundee and Aberdeen
45. A.H. Millar, 'The Collection of I. John Julius Weinberg Esq., Dundee', The Art Journal, 1898, pp. 16-20, 84-89.
46. Anon, 'The Late Mr J.C. Bell: Reminiscences by an Old Friend', The Dundee Advertiser, 30 August 1897.
47. Edward Pinnington, 'Art Collections of Dundee and District II: The Orchar Gallery', Dundee Advertiser, 1 May 1909
48. Anon, 'Dispersal of Mr. G.B. Simpson's Art Collection', The Dundee Advertiser, 29 November 1880.
49. George Hay (ed.), extract from The Book of Hospitalfield: A Memorial of Patrick Allan-Fraser, The Hospital Trust, 1894 (privately printed), pp. 32-38, 42-46
50. Ina Mary Harrower, John Forbes White (Edinburgh and London: T. Foulis, 1918), pp.
51. Charles Carter, 'Art Patronage in Scotland: John Forbes White, 1831-1904', Scottish Art Review, vol. VI, no.2, 1957, pp. 27-30.
52. Charles Carter, 'Alexander Macdonald 1837-1884: Aberdeen Art Collector', Scottish Art Review, 1963, pp. 23-28
Illustrations
Bibliography
Index
