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Charles Oppenheimer

 

Artist: Charles Oppenheimer
Title: White Gables, Kirkcudbright
Date: c1941
Medium: Oil on canvas
Description:

59 by 92 cm

During the Second World War a project was undertaken to record buildings,which might be at risk of enemy activity and also to provide wartime employment for artists.  In Scotland this work was financed by the Pilgrim Trust under the chairmanship of Sir James Irvine, Principal of St Andrews University.  After the war the collection of works was donated to the University.

This work was also chosen as an illustration for the publication Recording Scotland , edited by James Scotland (see bibliography)

It is ironic that his most iconic of Kirkcudbright views was obliterated, not by enemy action but by the building of local authority housing and garages.

Gallery: University of St Andrews
Location: Gatehouse of Fleet

All Art Works by this Artist

 

White Gables, Kirkcudbright

Galloway Dam, Nearing Completion

Kirkcudbright Under Snow

Ebb Tide, Kirkcudbright

Art in Concrete

Proclamation of George V, 1910

Old Kirkcudbright, 1920

Spring Landscape, Galloway

Landscape, Kirkcudbright

Harnessing the Dee

From a Tower, Kirkcudbright

Old Gables, Kirkcudbright

Kirkcudbright

My Garden at Twilight

Kirkcudbright Old Corn Mill

Kirkcudbright

Broughton House

The Linn Pool on the Dee

Manxman's Lake and St Mary's Isle Looking West

Monday Morning

Kirkcudbright under Snow

Mill on the Dee, Tongland

Kirkcudbright Harbour

Buckland Burn

About the Artist

Artist: Charles Oppenheimer

Date of Birth: 1875
Date of Death: 1961
Place of Death: Kirkcudbright
Floreat:

Residence in Dumfries & Galloway:
Moved in 1908 to 14 High Street, Kirkcudbright, rented from E A Hornel, then to Woodlea, Kirkcudbright, purchased in 1938.

Education:
Manchester School of Art; Italy

Professional Bodies:
ARSA, 1927; RSA, 1934; RSW, 1912

Exhibited At:
Royal Academy; Royal Scottish Academy; RSW; Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts; Aberdeen Artists' Society; Liverpool

Mentors:

Associates:
W S MacGeorge; friendly with Dorothy L Sayers and Mac Fleming when they lived next door at 14a High Street, rented from Hornel. Helped to found the Dumfries and Galloway Fine Art Society

Bibliography:
Charles Oppenheimer RSA, RSW, F G Mories, The Artist, Volume 33, No 6, August 1947. The Dee from Woodlands (sic), watercolour, 15.5 by 23 inches, illustrated in 25th Annual Galloway Exhibition, Bourne Fine Art at the McGill Duncan Gallery, Exhibition Catalogue 2003. A History of Scottish Art, Bill Smith and Selina Skipwith, Merrell, London, 2003. Kirkcudbright: one hundred years of an artists' colony, Patrick Bourne, Atelier Books, Edinburgh, 2000. Charles Oppenheimer RSA RSW, 1875- 1961, Exhibition Catalogue, Bourne Fine Art, 1990. The Tolbooth and Old Town, Kirkcudbright and Waterside, Kirkcudbright are illustrated. (In Stewartry Museum file) Paintings and Drawings by Charles Oppenheimer RSW, RSA, Broughton House, 1981, Exhibition Catalogue (Stewartry Museum file). McGill Duncan Exhibition Catalogue, August 2001 shows Loch Kindar, watercolour 171/2 by 23 1/2 in. Tales of the Kirkcudbright Artists, Haig Gordon, Kirkcudbright, 2006