Art and Heritage Online Database

Collection: Gray's School of Art Collection
Object Type: Fine Art: Interior with Figures
Artist/Maker: Aiken, John MacDonald
Date: unknown
Media/Materials: ink on paper
Dimensions: image size: 25.2 cm x 17.6 cm; overall: 34.1 cm x 26 cm

Description:

A composition featuring a large interior with corinthian columns and a vaulted ceiling. A small collection of people are seen praying in the middle-ground.
A RSA Portrait painter who was head of Gray's 1911-1914.

Former student and award winner John M Aiken would become Head of Gray's School of Art in 1910, a time of trial and reorganisation, when the school became known as the "Aberdeen School of Arts and Crafts, Gray's School of Art." This was to possibly encourage a relationship with local industries. Around this time, courses for stone-cutters, masons, plumbers, painters and decorators, cabinetmakers and even watch and clock makers were available.
Object Number: ABDRG2010.364