February - December 2026
Sir Duncan Rice Library, Bedford Road, Aberdeen, AB24 3AA
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The Linklater Art Collection
An exhibition exploring a domestic art collection
An exhibition will explore this unusual domestic collection, which frequently changed as pictures were sold and bought depending on the family’s finances. The exhibition is one outcome of a research project into the Linklaters and Aberdeen’s art world in the 1970s. The paintings, usually hung in a non-public events space at the University, will be on public display over 2026 at the Sir Duncan Rice Library.
2026 marks the 50th anniversary of a bequest of a collection of paintings to the University of Aberdeen by Eric and Marjorie Linklater. The novelist Eric Linklater had died in 1974, leaving some of the many paintings he and Marjorie had collected to the University. These include the following works by Royal Scottish Academicians: Set Square by James Cowie RSA, portraits of Eric and Marjorie Linklater by Stanley Cursiter RSA, Salmon Nets on the Shore by Joan Eardley RSA, a still life by S. J. Peploe RSA, Threnody in Red by Robin Philipson RSA and Tulips in a White Jug by Anne Redpath RSA. The collection also includes a still life and a portrait, Hortensia, by J. D. Fergusson and a still life by Leslie Hunter.
An exhibition will explore this unusual domestic collection, which frequently changed as pictures were sold and bought depending on the family’s finances. The exhibition is one outcome of a research project into the Linklaters and Aberdeen’s art world in the 1970s. The paintings, usually hung in a non-public events space at the University, will be on public display over 2026 at the Sir Duncan Rice Library.
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